Serpent Lake and the sea was a reminder

I couldn't resist!

Lucca wasn't particularly the type to travel by night, firmly being in the non-nocturnal spectrum of creatures. Night was for sleeping and dreaming, not wandering out and about where danger was found. Yet for some reason the boy was indeed out way past his bedtime, orange eyes glowing like jack-o-lanterns against the dark backdrop of the plains. He wasn't sure what he was looking for exactly, what the entire purpose of him missing out on precious sleep was for, but his paws urged him onwards regardless.

The soft trickle of water against stone caught his attention, a soothing sound that was a welcome departure from the buzzing drone of the scorched steppes (a place he had spent far too long in). He followed it until he came upon the source, elated by the sight — a waterfall! It was not as grand as Tegan's Tears back home at the Plateau but Lucca wasn't at all disappointed. Eagerly, he made his way towards the edge of a pool, mesmerised for a moment by the way it mirrored the starry sky above. Ripples suddenly marred the mirror-like surface, and the boy looked up in confusion, letting out a surprised gasp as he saw who had caused them.

"Oh, sorry, miss!" he called out to the figure he saw bathing in the pool; he hadn't even noticed her! The water reached up to her shoulders, revealing only her head and a scruff so fluffy it was almost comical seeing it surrounded by such a flat surface, like a piece of cotton candy floating in a pond. "I didn't mean to disturb you!" In truth, the boy could have silently let the girl be and she mightn't have been any the wiser, as she seemed distracted by the still surface of the waters.

Instead, his loud, unprompted apology only drew attention to the fact that he was there, because Lucca was not a smart man.