Totoka River So this is it....

Charon beamed a smile when Potema agreed with him that she had actually swum. That was a start -- now he just needed to get her to try again. He saw her look around after she said there had to be an easier way, and then came up with another brilliant idea: "How about we go to the shallows, where you can still just about stand, and you try to pull your paws up and swim? Then you can always put your paws back on the ground if you panic." He didn't think it should be necessary to go about it this way, but if it helped Potema, then they would just have to do it this way. Charon wasn't sure if it would work, though, since he had never tried it that way. He always just started to swim when his paws stopped connecting to the ground, never in the parts where he could still stand. Practise would have to prove whether it was a good idea or not.