[PRP] Just Keep Swimming

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Sarcire gave the kid a crooked smile. As someone who'd managed to miss breaking her leg by inches when she'd done her Rites, she could understand full well what the boy meant.

"Well, it turned out for the best, thank the gods," Sarcire pointed out. And she would certainly thank them for this. The Bahari'mtoto was not such a large pride that they could afford to lose members to stupidity and poor timing. Not that she'd say such a thing to an adolescent.  

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Kicheko snorted softly and batted at her sister's tail before turning to go back to her rock. The kid was safe, that was all she needed to know! Worrying too much about other people after they were out of danger was silly in her mind.

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Cetus nodded and rested his head on the sand again, taking his time to catch his breath. He closed his eyes, forcing himself to remember his fear and cloudy thoughts, vowing to never again experience such suffocating emotions while in a high risk situation.

It took him a good ten minutes to calm down completely and, when he did, he got up to head back into the jungle. He'd be back to swim, but not today. That riptide needed to go away first.

FIN