He looks back at the water, then at Ritsuka, again. His shoulders are hunched up, and he really does look ready to crawl out of his skin at the very idea of touching the water.

Even if Ritsuka's logic and attempts at calming him down were so very good--he still looks like a cornered, wet cat.

"...Okay, so. It's definitely not the animals or anything, it's.

Oof, if I sink, I won't be able to get out of it, you know."

He... can't swim.

"I uh. I grew up on a desert planet. Completely desert, sand everywhere.

We didn't... have things like bodies of water."

So. New fear unlocked.