Oh no, is this the sound of rejection? It sounds like rejection to Feferi, and the corners of her lips twitch but she smiles through it. Especially because she can't help but think how endearingly sad it is how waterlogged he looks and how much she really, really wants to make him feel better about it. Lesson learned, she still is not ready for actively trying to antagonize people. Maybe she'll never be ready.

Now unsure of herself, she stands with her feet planted and her arms crossed over her chest, trying to not make eye contact-- which, thankfully, given the sunglasses glued to his face permanently, isn't hard. It's a rare occasion for her to be dumbstruck, but she is. She wants so much to say the right thing and make this conversation less awkward, but it's hard and she's not used to feeling guilty, but maybe she does a little.

Maybe she really just messed this one up big time, like the biggest suckerfish out there.

"I do want to!" She blurts it out, a lot less gracefully and a lot more desperately than she would have liked, but keeps rolling with it anyway. "I do want to go do stuff, and I do trust you. And I didn't mean to make you think you looked stupid, because you didn't, it was really cute, but I don't want you to get hurt! I like you a lot and I don't want really that."

And because it comes out more serious than she would have liked, she perks hersel back up with her smile a bright as ever. "And yes, I like you even if you steal my crackers and won't ever go swimming with me."