Swamped

"Big!" Mortimer exclaims. "Float!"

"A big floating skeleton?" Sunflower asks. "I hope he means in the water, not in the air."

"It's strange either way. I've never heard of a creature whose bones are that light. Where did you see it?"

Mortimer starts saying something, but the beast growls and interrupts. Mortimer settles on "Sorry".

"Hmm. I suppose that's a secret," you sigh. "Slightly surprised that a muckbeast is keeping one, but that's one of the less strange things I've seen today."

"Well, if that's all, we'd like you to explain things to the other muckbeast," Sunflower says. He starts walking over. The beast and Mortimer growl to each other for a bit.

After a while, the beast makes a motion that looks like nodding.

"Safe!" Mortimer says.

"Thank you," you say, picking up the net. Sunflower puts down Mortimer and picks up the Lady, and you restrain her with it. Then you put her back on the beast.

It growls again. Mortimer looks worried this time.

"What's the matter?" Sunflower asks, picking up the lizard again. "Is this one saying something worrying?"