Can You Be My Floaties?

It was the dead of night and one of the young children of Bane and Tahlia, who should have been sleeping at this hour, was out of the den and wandering around Ebony. She had been moved from a different home, a home by a river, though she didn't remember that home. Lior had been just a tiny little scrap of fur when they came here... but now the girl was growing... and as she got a little older her energy started to come about in larger spurts. Tonight was one such night, paws leading the girl down to the dark waters of the lake. The water fascinated her... and it looked even more beautiful at night with the stars shining down upon it.

A black paw would tip into the dark water, light pools of faded blue shining with curiosity. The water was cool... but... inviting. She didn't know how to swim but that troubled the little girl not. With a little squee she jumped into the shallow water, the cool liquid splashing up onto her belly. Her tail would wag happily, splashing about and giggling in the darkness as a pale moon hung in the sky overhead.

A plopping sound not far from where she was startled Lior and the child would turn her head towards it. Whatever it was it went into the water. The little girl would take a step in that direction in hopes of maybe catching a glance of what it was... but as her little paws moved forward the ground she walked on dropped suddenly and with a short, startled yelp Lior would go under the still water.

A few seconds later she surfaced, small body flailing wildly as she tried to keep her head above water, though it was hard to do so. "He...blurble...lp! Somebody! Hel...-blurble-!" Her muzzle would fall under the waves again, and if someone did not happen upon her soon it was not likely Lior would make it out of the lake alive.