[GAPES A LITTLE LIKE, well, a fish, because what is that. Is that a new predator or someone else from the base he'd missed? What is it doing? How is it crying underwater? He is so confused. And--did it speak to him or not? He's not sure. This non-pact telepathy is strange, but it's usually clearer.

Focus, Mikleo! He'll take the opportunity to fire off that second spell, and get the Stalker bound up in a second ring of ice while it's stunned. He keeps his staff up afterward as he paddles clumsily backward to get a better look, just in case he has to defend from Napstablook too. But he's also sending a polite thought at Napstablook, to be sure:]

Thanks for the assist.