Snufkin woke up in a dome. There was grass on the ground, but something was...off. The sky. The sky, while blue, was almost TOO dark. He looked around at his surroundings. Outside the dome, it was just...sand? Hills and hills of sand all across. Am I in a desert? Peculiar desert...
Though, he supposed, this wasn't the weirdest place he had been to on his travels. His mind was foggy and his lungs hurt. He reached up to his hair and realized it was damp. The last thing he remembered was being on a boat in the middle of the ocean.
Oh.
Oh, dear.
I'm underwater, aren't I?
But how can I breathe? I suppose that's what the dome is for...
Then there must be someone else here.
"Hello?" Snufkin yelled through the dome. No answer. "Strange..."
He decided it would be best for him to get up and walk around, his legs were rather stiff.
Examining the dome, what he saw was not what he expected to say the very least. A spinning wheel, lab equipment, a birdbath despite being underwater, and a tree that was shaped into a house. It couldn't hurt to check, right?
He knocked on the door before deciding to open it. The inside was fairly normal, except more lab equipment and-
"Oh!! You're awake! Sandy said you land creatures could die from water, so I assumed you were dead." A yellow square greeted him and smiled. He was strange, square with holes and buck teeth, bright, beautiful blue eyes that reminded Snufkin of Moomintroll, and a bowl over his head. "I'm Spongebob! Who are you? You're from Texas right?" Spongebob said cheerfully.
"Oh! Um, I'm Snufkin. I'm afraid I don't know what Texas is, and I don't know where I'm from. Who is this 'Sandy' you mentioned?" Snufkin replied.
"You're not from Texas? Weird, Sandy told me she was from Texas and she's from above the water too! But you do have a pretty accent so-"
"Who's Sandy?" Snufkin asked again, getting impatient, trying to hide the blush forming on his face with his hat.
"She's my friend! She helped you get out of the water and into this dome!" Spongebob said, walking Snufkin outside.
"Okay...where is she? I don't see her anywhere."
"She said she was getting you a bowl to put around your head so you can breathe under water and live here!"
"Hey now wait a minute, I appreciate her efforts but I can't stay here forever! I have to get back to Moominvalley by the first day of spring, I promised I would." Snufkin objected, putting his hands up.
"Do you live in Moominvalley? You said you didn't know where you were from but-" Spongebob started.
"I-uh, I'm a traveller. I live nowhere. But...I return to Moominvalley every spring and stay there until the first snow. Then I return to my travels."
"Weird. WELL, anyways," Spongebob said with a blush on his face, "You're a really unique person! I've never met anyone as cool as you..."
Snufkin blushed as well. "Well I uh- Thank you? Y-you're really cool too, Spongebob." Snufkin said softly.
The two blushed and came to a sudden and mutual realization. Spongebob looked into Snufkin's beautiful eyes and began to lean in. Snufkin inhaled and realized what was happening.
Their faces got closer and closer, until they were just centimeters apart, and then with blushes on their faces-
"HOWDY Y'ALL!!! IM SANDY CHEAKS"
