Rising Sun Valley ﹌ Kilvan

her ears flicked back across her head when he called her txay'kalu; but he was not wrong! maybe that was why it stung. the water was more difficult to move through than air. she felt heavier beneath the surface, even with the buoyancy; or it was the weightless quality of bobbing there which displaced her sense of self, just enough to make it difficult.
but it would not be a day of lessons. tey'gan moved to bathe and skuka went to sulk in the shallows, trying to get used to the feeling of the water's pulse around her. she closed her eyes and took some deep breaths, or licked the river water from her lips, and tried to relax, and to focus.
letting him bathe in private.
while facing away from him, she called: should we follow the river after? still she did not want to climb the mountains; it seemed an obstacle worth avoiding.