Not On The Surface

He didn't really reply right away so she thought maybe he had just let it go, but then he stopped her with his paw around her ankle and instead asked if she wanted to go swimming instead of continuing their walk. She glanced down at where his dark paw was curled around her pale limb before bringing her sapphire gaze back up to his and offered him a soft smile. "Yeah, that sounds good," she replied after a beat even though some strangely defiant part of her almost told him no, that she wanted to finish her run. She decided quickly though that she didn't really want to push her luck and she hadn't really spent any time with him recently except for at night when they went to bed. She still loved her brother and had she not wished for their relationship to go back to what it once was?

She let him lead the way to one of the many swimming options around the island. Between the ocean that surrounded them and the various pools and streams that cut through the island itself there was pretty much every kind of body of water that they could imagine here—except maybe a waterfall. She waded into the water, actually a bit relieved to be off her paws for a little while. Her muscles were pretty much always sore since she had started from nothing with her exercising so it was kind of nice to just float around for a little bit. She turned toward him once she was at a spot where her paws just lightly grazed the bottom and she gave him a little grin as she splashed some water toward him with one of her pale paws, giggling playfully.

"Azzurra & Balthier"