Great Bear Wilderness Take Your Time

She slipped into the water just like that. No struggle, resistance or protest, just a simple slide into the water where she made a swamp monster of herself. She lingered in the shallows while a bug roamed about her nose. Other than that? Nothing. No movement. No sounds. No anything.

He took a few paces into the water and joined her there. It was cooler in the spring than it was to stand in the heat of summer. In this, he did not envy her dark pelt, though the sun bore down on him just as hot. Either way, inside the calm of the water there was no warmth to be concerned with. It was pleasant.

He lingered in the shallow for a moment before wondering if his mate had died on him. Unmoving, and silent, he had little to go by save for the way her nose sent ripples across the water's surface. He lowered his lips to the water, sucked a little into his mouth, and then squirted it at her. "You alive in there?" he asked, his tail waving playfully, albeit damp as it lifted out of the water behind him.