Gloriana clenched her fears behind pearlescent teeth. Keith had always loved attention and the holiday photographer’s lens had held him here in the shallows for an hour or more of posturing. Could she get him back to the boat before he transformed completely and withered in the scorching heat?
“Well, alrighty then, but just a couple more”, he called flirtingly at the camera, a soft wet gargle forming in his throat.
Gloriana began to wonder if unconventional love was really for her.