Aquatics 101

As soon as her dad asked the question that confirmed her suspicions, she grinned wide with excitement, her tail wagging happily behind her. "Yeah!" she replied without hesitation, already eagerly starting to head down to the water the moment her father made any kind of move toward the peaceful lake. She had already had a fascination with all kinds of bodies of water since she was very little and it felt like a very long time coming to learn how to swim. Rebel followed her dad out into the water until it got up to her elbows as she usually did and then turned her magenta gaze up toward her dad expectantly to hear what he had to say about how to swim. It felt like one of those things that she should just know how to do, but just like fighting it took some practice and finesse to get good at.

She listened and watched like any good student as he moved a bit further into the water and explained some of the basic ideas of it. She nodded along as he went, understanding of course that swimming here would be much easier than swimming in the ocean or river. Before she took any more steps forward, she made sure to listen to everything he said about the lift of the water, how her body was supposed to try and keep itself afloat, and to start kicking her legs like she was running. As impatient as she was to get started, she had learned from her lessons with her mom to listen first and act second. Once the explaining was done she nodded confidently and started wading her way out into the water, enjoying the cool, refreshing feeling of it from the hot sun.

As soon as she felt that weightlessness that her father had described, she immediately tried to kick off of the rocky, sandy bottom of the lake and begin kicking her legs, pretending that she was running through the water. At first it was kind of awkward and it was hard to find that balance between being able to propel herself forward without accidentally letting her head dunk under the water, but after a couple of tries she began to get the hang of it and started swimming in a circle around her dad with an excited grin. "I'm swimming!" she called out with a giggle, only to have to catch herself a bit as her paddling got a bit uneven in her excitement. She was quick to recover though and regained her focus to keep on with her steady movement through the water.

WC: 438
Total: 1775 / 1500

"Rebel"