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"Hello Yukiko", he said simling at her. "So this place so dull isn't there anything to do around here?", he asked her his tail sawying about now. Heglanced about now wondering what happened when she was gazing at someone earlier. He searched, but couldn't find anything which he found a bit odd, but dismiseed the fact. As he looked towards the hotsprings he wondered if water was so bad. I mean he did like baths it was just the cold depths of deep water he didn't like.

When she saw Kazuma glance at the hotsprings she asked him "Hey, Kazuma you wanna take a quick dip?" Yukiko walked over to the hot springs(co-ed) and pulled of her towel, folded it neatly and placed it on the side of the water. "Ahhh" She sighed as she slipped into the steaming water. As the steam rose from the water into the crisp air she closed her eyes and almost fell asleep for a moment there.

He looked at Rivera then at Yume. The woman was talking about something important. He remembered seeing something shine down on the bottom of the spring when he was down there a while ago.

Miss, is this object you are looking for shiney?

He tried to remember the exact place where he saw it but it seemed impossible. His mind was wandering all over the place. He couldn't keep a single thought for more than thirty seconds it seemed.

If it is, it's roughly about there.

He pointed to a large stone in the center of the spring. It obvisouly went right to the bottom of the rock pool. It seemed alot like it had been under water for quite some time. The pillar was erroded way and smooth to the touch.

Check around the base of it, on the far side.

"Th-thank you..." Rivera's eyes widened slightly at the unexpected assistance. She bowed to him, a feat to accomplish in the water, but some how accomplished, before she changed again, the sea serpent tail visible in the light that shone through the water. It was a beautiful sapphire blue tinted with aquamarine and slight grass-green shades near the fins and spines. Frills between the fins were pale blue and translucent, much like the gossamer of fairies, but ribbed with steel and patterned with a light imprint of arcane, blacks symbol. Silver streaks mingled with violet ones ran down the side of the serpentine tail, which ended in a mermaid like attatchment, the same form as the ribbed frills and horizontally alligned with her spine.

The raven haired girl dove down, making no sound in her speedy descent, as an otter, silent in the liquid medium. True to the expectations, she found the key had drifted to the bottom of the pool. Rivera gripped the still intact chain in her hand a dove back up, making sure she was still wearing the towel. Her head broke the surface as the water shallowed and she readjusted her towel around her chest, it had loosened during her trip. Reaching behind her neck, she fumbled with the clasp of her chain and locked two rings into the catch this time. It will not fall off like that again of mere nothing. There was a slash on her right arm where a sharp stone had cut her in the descent. It wasn't exactly shallow, nor deep. The wound wasn't so bad, she had many of them in lesser knife fights. What's one more wound to an already battle scarred body?

There was someone else speaking to her from the edge of the water, the same man she had handed the towel to earlier. "If you leave it on the stone at the edge of the spring..." She whispered, "Over there, when you are done, the storm will bring it back to me by wind." Rivera's eyes returned to a faint amber in the right eye and a silvery violet in the left, the sign of relief. Rivera looked to the girl... Yume, was that what she heard them call her? She wasn't sure.

"Miss, are you alright?"

"Oh well, umm sure", he said walking into the male changing room taking off his clothes and equipment carefully andl ocking it up. "Hmmm so I guess I just go in the co-ed one", he said clad in his swim trunks as he dipped in the fur on his tail and ears now flat down instead of it's usual bouncyness. "Hmmm this is nice", he said closing his eyes a bit as he submerged into the water until only the top half of his head was sticking out.

Rachel walked into the hotsprings and sat next to the water. She peered into it wondering how people managed to float in such massive amounts of it. In all honesty, Rachel had no idea how to swim. Sure, she could stay afloat for about a minute, but to actually swim was something that she knew was difficult. As she put her foot in the water, her other foot was planted on the slippery surface before the water. rachel lost her grip and fell into the water with a huge splash. She resurfaced and flailed her way to a wall where she could climb back up. As she sat on the ground next to the spring, she shook of some of the water that had gotten in her face. She looked into the reflection of the water and smiled when she saw herself looking more dog-like than ever with wet clumps of hair sticking up as if she really did have dog ears. 'I wonder what it would be like if I were a dog...' Rachel thought as she put her feet into the water and kicked them back and forth. She looked to see if other people were in the spring besides her and quickly noticed that she was not alone. Her cheeks flushed to a darker shade of pink as she analyzed just how stupid she might've looked in the water. Rachel lay down on the hard surface and fixed a strap on her forest green bathing suit. As she brought her arm back to place, she felt it skim across a cold surface. Rachel shot up and gripped her green collar. It had gotten wet during her "trip," and if she didn't do something to dry it off quickly, the metal would bein to rust.

He smiled after Yume then slipped back under the surface of the hot water. He released all his air and sat on the stone bottom. It was hard but he really didn't notice all that much. Pander had never felt the small annoyances most people did. The warm water rushed over his body, his hair flying wildly in the currents. Even with the force of some of these currents, he stayed rooted to the spot he was in. He exelent sence of balance allowed him to do many things like this.

Bubbles rose out of his mouth as he tried to speak to himself. Although it was gurgled, each word seemed to ring clear through the water. He completely forgot about the fact that others could be listening or watching, but he didn't care.

This is nice... two friends and it's onl my first day here. One saves my life and the other knows hte lullabye my mother used to sing to me when I was a child. Could she be from the village?... No, she couldn't. I would have recognised her... or would I?...