The ride down the tunnel was interesting. It was a long, six-hundred foot drop so it took a while to get to the other side, especially since the shapeshifters swam slowly, in order to avoid shaking off their guests.
Just like as the shapeshifters promised, Jimmy and his friends could in fact breathe underwater if they 'mended' together with the shapeshifters.
Jimmy and Zik could breathe just fine, as if they had grown a pair of gills! Eni struggled a bit, as she could feel her chest tightening now and then, burdened by a small feeling of suffocation, but she was far from being in danger. In fact, she enjoyed the ride down perhaps more than everyone else did, as there was something so unique, so exotic about kissing a mermaid's plump, big, green lips for five minutes straight! Though she never planned to admit it, she was having fun.
