I just wanna live well I'm alive

He would call her the best mud monster, and she tossed her head high, glancing over at him, with an expression that clearly said 'well duh' but she grew bored of the game quickly and settled in the water again, washing the bit of mud off her cheek with a paw and moving back to Ren's side. “Lets swim” she said boldly, already well over her earlier fright in the water.

She didn't want to say in so many words that she couldn't swim, but she was rather eager to learn how. They lived on a beach, and if she could show daddy she could swim surely he would let her go out there, right?