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<span class="mu-b">"No! N-No thank you, I'm fine!"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"Suit yourself!"</span>
Yet another boat, yacht, cruiser, sailed ship, and otherwise privately owned vessel passes you by. Stopping along the way when noticing a young woman out swimming by herself a ways offshore, to see if you need any help. At your continued insistence though, you can let them know that you're fine and don't need any help.
It's actually quite annoying to you now, beyond even the point of being embarrassed at being caught out skinny-dipping (albeit underwater and at a distance), because it's been several hours now at the slower pace you have to go and by now it's been probably a dozen or so boats or concerned parties that accosted you along the way back to the resort. Eventually though, after a grueling and exhaustive time and effort, you finally sight the Second Season itself and the beach in the distance. In the home stretch now, and not a moment too soon.
<span class="mu-b">"Ugh, finally! I swear, if I never set foot in the ocean again, it'll be too soon! Now then... how to actually get back to my room?"</span>
Already late afternoon by now, you find yourself elongated and standing just a ways offshore from the beach beyond the resort. So close yet so far, when you can't very well just waltz out of the surf and casually head on up to your room, for everyone to see you like this along the way. You did accomplish the impressive feat of swimming all the way back here from the marina downtown, but now there's a challenge you can't just stretch your way out of.
Or, maybe not actually! Watching and waiting as if just another swimmer out in the shallows near shore, you notice how people left umbrellas and towels and other beach things. Of course some people are actively using them but in other cases they're out somewhere in the shallows with you, or a few of them having a snooze. So while it may be a risky endeavor, you finally muster some courage to approach the shore. Less and less needing to elongate your body, till the point where you're basically just squatting as your normal self in the shallows.
<span class="mu-b">"Alright, alright... no kid, don't come over here... yes, everyone keep doing what you're doing... not paying attention, aaand... yes! Quickly, pull it back..."</span>
From being as close to the shore as you're comfortable getting, you manage to find a viable target in some towels left closer to the waterline. You wait a long time for the opportunity to not be noticed, and you have to be quick about it, but finally you manage to stretch your arm out the distance enough to snatch one of the towels and quickly pull it back to you in the water.