She stared back down at him with her lamplike eyes.

"... Ugh, you really think so? I mean... Not that I was gonna go for a swim..."

She wasn't really a big fan of the water... or at least not murky water. Swimming pools were generally okay, but even if it was nothing more than a shadow of a memory lingering deep in the most primal corner of her brain, she couldn't ever entirely forget dying deep underwater, dragged down by her ankle and crushed.