By the time Azem enters, Erichthonios has mellowed out to the point of halfway dozing, the full reality of another person's presence within the room not fully dawning on him in those first few seconds as he reacts to the voice by tipping his head back to blink up with sleepy red eyes.

He sees a face, and brilliant eyes that look alike to his people, and...

And that face is a lot closer than he thought it would be. And the shoulders are... rather bare...

The person is wearing no clothes.

"Wh-wha...!?" Eyes widening in alarm, all hints of drowsiness instantly disappear as he plunges into the water with an undignified eep. Oh no, oh star, what is he supposed to do?