"I can't see anyone," Kubo said, but really, if Beetle didn't see anything from his height, what was Kubo going to see half-immersed in the mud?

He tugged back on his mother's hand and, after a moment of strained pulling and awkward noises from the mud, came free onto the relatively dry land. The skintight Legion uniform he wore under his Beetle Clan robe was water resistant enough that he was still fairly dry under all the mud, but one foot was bare.

"It took my sandal," he objected, looking into the mud to see if he could rescue his shoe.