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Papina clung to Cordain entirely, forgetting the fact that neither of them were wearing very much. For a while, it appeared like nothing had changed, but then the leaves on her head quieted down to mere quivering, then a shiver now and then. Finally, they curled once, uncurled, then were still. Papina sniffed, then lowered one hand from it's clutched location on one of Cordain's shoulders down to the water, and she started to trace random patterns in it, being completely still everywhere else.

It appeared she had gone from loathe to dislike...

It was a start.

At the word "weightlessness," the tracing hand paused as she squeaked and clung tighter to Cordain, the leaves on top of her head set a-quiver again. Weightlessness meant no ground beneath you. No ground beneath you meant you had no anchor, nothing to plant yourself into, nothing to gain nutrients from. She did not want to become weightless.

She about missed the rest of it, but caught the end. Swimming was good for the body? She loosened her grip just a tad and the leaves slowly went still again. Eh heh. Well, if swimming was good for you... She lifted her head to peek over his shoulder, giving the water a dubious look.

She shuddered all over, but he had a point. A very good point. Best to learn how to swim... just in case. She gulped, then pulled slightly away from Cordain to look up at him. She might as well learn how.

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The corners of her mouth twitched upwards in a shaky smile in response to his smile, even as she continued to cling to him. A blush started to creep up from her collarbone as she turned to face Halcyon. "Heya. If I wasn't in the water, I'd be doing wonderfully now. You?" She blinked, then looked closer at him, unwinding a little as she somewhat forgot where she was. Was he bigger? "Have you grown?" she inquired, totally forgetting to be polite in asking.

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Papina's stomach started to flutter as Cordain rubbed her back and she gave Halcyon a rather shaky grin. "Well, I suppose there is that point," she admitted to the other scroll child. She herself wasn't fully mature, so of course she has grown too. She turned to give Cordain a wry smile. "I supect that the only reason my mother hasn't been saying I've been shooting up like a weed is because my scroll is the poison ivy plant and she doesn't want me to even think that she might be hinting that I'm a weed." Not that she hadn't been growing quickly, mind. Papina rolled her eyes, having almost completely forgotten where she was currently. That she was lessening her grip on Cordain only helped to prove this fact.

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Papina found herself speechless at his complement, all thoughts of water flying out of her head. Cordain couldn't have done a better job of making her forget why she feared water if he tried. Her eyes had gone wide, her body began to tremble, and her cheeks burned as she blushed bright red. That was... quite the statement. She'd never been told anything like that before... How does one respond to something like that?

She turned her head to find something to distract both of them, and was rewarded when she caught sight of Halcyon. She went still and blinked in bemused confusion at the crystal scroll child as she debated if she should ask what was clearly on his mind.

"... How does he do that?" she asked finally, although that wasn't the question she had intended on asking. Still, it was a distraction. If this distraction didn't work, she could always plea that she needed to get out so she could get her roots unwrapped - they were starting to ache and change color from the lack of oxygen.

Next time, she was going to see if wrapping some dirt up with her roots would work better and allow her to stay in the water longer.

"Well, float like that. I thought..." She blinked and stopped, not wanting to seem rude or ignorant. She had been about to say that she thought crystals were heavy, and couldn't float, but had quickly realized that she really couldn't say that without feeling like an idiot and possibly insulting Halcyon as well. She was distracted by the sensation of delight her roots were giving off as they were exposed to air once more. She shivered with an unknown feeling in reaction as she started to get goosebumps over all her green parts, and subconsiously started to rub at her roots trying to get that crawling sensation to stop.