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Not that he has the strength to resist you anyway, but he's completely caught off guard and too shocked by your action, leaving choking and sputtering sea monster blood and spit. Before he can catch his breath, you plunge him under the water as well to join his dead friend. Similarly he too struggles and panics for his life... only his fate doesn't end here. Through the shallow water, you feel the human start violently convulsing and eventually see eruptions of his own blood from his neck as... gills start to form and split his skin.
<span class="mu-b">"There you go... take it in... you have my blessing."</span>
Only temporary of course, a byproduct of your divine physiology forced upon him. But you hold him under for the rough adjustment period of him trying to resist and having to get used to breathing underwater.
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<span class="mu-b">"You really can't hear that? Well, you are only human after all..."</span>
It's been a few days now, but your language-learning effort is underway. After drowning your first victim as an introductory lesson, you've been dwelling underwater just off the coast among a nice kelp forest. A pleasant place to pass the time, while you listen to the sea; anytime any human drowns in this ocean, you can hear their dying words in the waters. It's not a very common occurrence but across the entire ocean? Enough humans are drowning <span class="mu-i">somewhere</span> that you are passively picking up the language, even if you have to wait longer and longer for new words you don't already know.
It's not every day after all, that someone cries out complicated words while dying. But you're learned enough even to barely start communicating with your new friend, purposefully kept close by.
<span class="mu-s">"Kladaj... leave me alone, monster..."</span>
Understandably he's quite upset, depressed over the current stat of things. Being kidnapped by a sea monster, watching a friend killed before him, then that same friend's body being eaten, and then being kept prisoner underwater by the monster and forcibly adapted to surviving the experience. It's annoying to you to say the least, you think he should be happy for this honor of being your guest, but what can you do? There's no pleasing humans, pathetic little land dwelling wretches that they are. Would that you could, shed your own human side altogether!
Ah, but in any case you feel confident in your progress! Strides made towards better domination over the land, once you can understand their screams and make clear your threats! How much you care to learn of the common language though, how long you want to spend underwater, is up to you to decide. The longer you spend the better you will grasp the language, but for an extended period of time you'll need something to do meanwhile. Something to focus on while you passively learn new words.
>What do you do?
