"Well, you're the only octoling...inkling? I know." Look, covering his butt and saying both. Still nonetheless impressed. "I'll remember that! No one here can hold their breath for nothing. I'm the odd fish out when I say I can stay under half an hour."

Which might not be impressive to someone far more aquatic to him, but hey. He'll point up. "I think I can get that way, I got a friend who can help. Lemme introduce you."

He'll bring them out in a second- will wait if Eight has any particular thoughts to interrupt him. But if she doesn't, then a glowing will rise from his chest, and from it, a blue creature that smells like water appears from within, teleporting in the space between air and crowd. A creature that can only be seen and understood by those good-hearted.

'Hiiig!' he squeaks!