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<span class="mu-r">"Good morning ma'am!"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"-AAAAGH!"</span>
Regardless of your success it's still a terribly long way to travel by water, even if you are managing well enough on your own. But as you had feared, it seems you were noticed by more than a few people who ended up bringing notice to you. The wrong kind of notice.
<span class="mu-r">"-it's okay, don't panic! I'm here to help if you need it!"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"What are you?! Where did you come from?! D-Don't look!"</span>
<span class="mu-r">"Sorry! I'm Riptide, a superhero around here! The ocean, I mean!"</span>
You figured you were making good progress, and it's probably been about an hour or two since you left from the marina. So apart from the occasional alarm and attempts to get your attention or offer to help from onlookers at a distance, you figured you'd be able to make it all the way back without trouble. To your shock, and fear however, you get surprised by the emergence of... well, some kind of human-shark looking person? A superhero by their own admission, whether they noticed your swimming offshore or it was reported to them you can't say, but you could probably assume they naturally deal with aquatic sorts of problems like people falling into the waters around Miami.
Though a hero is a bad enough surprise for you, but it could be worse. Could have been they approached you at a point where you were elongated and striding along the seabed, rather than just swimming and more or less your normal bodied-self. Though you're still caught embarrassed, but at least it seems like a shark... woman? If the voice is anything to go by.
<span class="mu-b">"I-I'm just swimming out here, I'm fine!"</span>
<span class="mu-r">"Well you shouldn't be, it's dangerous! Passing ships may not even see you! And well... ahem, skinny-dipping? Let me get you out of here!"</span>
Not as though there's a particular risk of your superhuman nature being discovered, and even if it was, your mess of wet hair in your face sort of does the job for hiding who you are? But right now you're more embarrassed about being caught out like this or being rescued as such, rather than your evil identity being discovered. You'd rather she just went away and left you alone, this Riptide. Preferably forgot all about this! But then, not as if you really want to but she could help you along a lot better than on your own. To help you along to the resort or at the very least fetch some clothes for you, something like that.
>Get the hell out of here! You don't need any help and you're just fine swimming along on your own!
>As risky as it may be, you could accept some help given the... difficult circumstances.
>Hero! Attack! She's bound to have the edge in this aquatic environment but you're no pushover yourself!
>Actually... oh dear! You don't have the strength to continue any further! You simply must cling to her for support, and you'll surely drown if she doesn't take you to her home base!
>A vicious write-in?