Gabriel wanted to say something about him not being blind, but he held his tongue. When the water was finally receding from their part of the beach, Gabriel climbed out of the tunnel, slipped, and fell on the shale beach with an "Oof." Just his luck.

Anthony looked extremely excited when he saw the water finally give way to them. He climbed out of the cave with relative ease, compared to Gabriel, whose misfortune he laughed at yet again. "Well, if you didn't see it before, I think you do now."

Gabriel got up, squinting his eyes at the other man, but he said nothing. He just wiped the worst dirt off his cassock and began to walk back to town, trying to ignore how cold and wet his feet were.

Anthony was irritated by his attempts at being civil just being ignored, but not too much. "Right. Goodbye to you, too," he said at the other guy just walking off like that, and eventually did the same as well.