Right before I promptly vomited a lungful of water right into his open mouth. “I usually like to get to know someone before I let them do that to me,” he said, his one free hand reaching up to wipe the bottom half of his face. “Though I suppose we all have to start somewhere … and the story of how Tethys, Prince of the Sea, saved you from drowning before you vomited on him is going to make a good one.”

