"You're an elf, that makes you older than me, Curufin-san." There's a laugh though, because yes, yes she's feeling protective. More so because this is underwater and she can't move as fast as she'd like.

That said, very much tugging/dragging him in the direction pointed as fast as she can go. "As long as we can get up into them, I can drive the crabs off. Probably. Either way, I'm going to have words with the Train after. I'm, a pokemon trainer and that means I should at least have access to my pokemon for the missions. It'd make things so much easier!"