[Varian will honestly take any of those options at this point. He's going to keep clinging. He wasn't a terrible swimmer, once upon a time- he grew up in a coastal kingdom, after all. But after losing the leg he's not really got the practice in to adjust. It's not like Deerington had many places to swim to do that.
It's making him wholly reliant on Melius to get him out of this, and he doesn't like feeling this helpless- but he does brighten at the light- he tries to say "hey, it's light" but just a whole lot of bubbles come out of his mouth.
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It's making him wholly reliant on Melius to get him out of this, and he doesn't like feeling this helpless- but he does brighten at the light- he tries to say "hey, it's light" but just a whole lot of bubbles come out of his mouth.
...Oh, right. Water. ]