Alluuvia
Once they were ready, Lyla had waved Anyar to come to the airlock so he could watch them each eat their seaweed leaf, and only one leaf, while above the water in the airlock. No matter how bad they tasted. And apparently they weren't too poisonous, for they were all still swimming. For now, anyway.
So, after swimming back to the cave entrance, Lyla intercepted the Anguillan as it offered Lamar another leaf. 'No no no, we ate our leafs. In our ship. In the beach we take with us. Anyar watched us.' she tried to explain, pointing to mouths and ship and Anyar and eyes as needed. Instead, she took and passed around the bones tied with phosphorescent seaweed for use as torches.
She switched to a private comms channel, and beckoned the team to follow her into the dark cave. Have gone through this water-world thing on Sedri, Lyla was less bothered by it all now, though dealing with the Sedrians was seemingly like a snap compared to the Anguillans now. 'Come on, let's get this over with before they come up with something else. And if we're still not worthy, we'll have to leave them to the Empire.'