you are a sailor/bystander (doesn't matter which you chose!), you were at the shore to explore the new area you found yourself in, when you saw a figure struggling with another on the sand, when you approached the spiked figure managed to throw the other one back in the water, now being stranded just out of the tides reach, as you approached the spines on It shook as it hissed, it seemed defensive to other creatures near it