This ain't a scene

On his paddle back, he noticed Ryuu standing on the water's edge. He smiled to himself to see her there and wondered whether she was wanting to talk or just passing by. As he got closer, she lifted her leg to scratch at the collar around her neck though it didn't seem to hurt her. "What is that?" he asked as he got closer to the lake shore, panting between words - he'd underestimated the effort of talking and swimming.

He pulled himself out of the lakeside and instinctually shook himself to loosen the worse of the water, sending a spray of fine water droplets over the land. FitzDutiful had been meaning to ask Ryuu about her collar ever since she had joined, there just hadn't been time - until now. Hopefully she would have a few answers for him. He doubted it was dangerous, if he had thought it was he wouldn't have accepted her into the pack.