I was a... some kind of diver. I wasn't a hermit. [Cue a dubious look from the corner of his eyes, nudging back] You were all mermaids and pirates, how was I going to be a hermit? Hermit crab, maybe.

[He turns his gaze back out across the sand, from the breaking tide to where another line of rocks cut it off in the distance.]

The city probably created it, if you believed it existed. Could be buried out there right now. [And a beat.] What's your puzzle?