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It wasn't too big but also wasn't in any way small. Gideon examined it carefully, reaching a finger out to stroke along its back. Wow! Its skin was really rough, like nothing he'd ever felt before. How interesting! He grinned for a moment at the discovery, intrigued. The male then backed up from it as it flopped, surprised. He could see blood coming out of its mouth from where the hook had come in and cringed. Having a hook in him like that would probably hurt. He occasionally felt bad for the creatures that he'd caught, especially ones that he wasn't sure if he wanted to eat or not. Would this creature's pain be for nothing?
He was grateful that Layla had helped him haul the thing up. They worked well together! He pulled on the line some more, dragging the beast away from the cliff's edge and the water as it flailed about. He wanted to get the hook out of it and examine it further. Gideon reached for the hook after observing it for a while, waiting for it to still. He'd seen creatures come back to life once they were in the water...he wanted it to tire itself out so that he could get the hook out of it safely before he did anything else.
It seemed that luck wasn't on his side this day, though. The darkly colored male reached for the hook just as the shark chose to come back to life on its own, snapping its jaws shut around his first finger, middle finger, and thumb. They sank down deep and the shark whipped its head to the side, wrenching his fingers and entire arm back and forth. He felt his arm come loose from his shoulder socket and winced as it cracked back into place as the shark's head came back toward him. "Ahhh! Layla!" He beat on its head with his other fist, getting down closer to it so it couldn't wrench his arm back and forth any more like it had.
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