The reminder that her newest creation was floating uselessly down at the bottom of a community pool disheartened Marine. Oh yeah, that was horribly, painfully embarrassing, wasn't it?

"Erm, yeah... Be my guest, mate. Just be gentle with 'er! You never know; maybe she broke while she was down there..."

She hoped that would be a good enough explanation for anything wrong with it when he inspected it. She knew saying it failed because of the water would mean it was a really shoddy watercraft, but it was the best she could come up with on the fly. It was what caused a bunch of her older creations to fail, anyway.