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[[A double-bacon cheeseburger would've done the trick, thank you very much. ]]

Kiki was not skinny-dipping, actually.
Little did Shef know, she was in fact wearing a bikini of sorts. No, it was not made of coconuts, which is dissapointing to some.
Kiki appeared out of the water a few feet away from Shef, meaning the water sat just at the bottom of her shoulders. Kiki herself was oblivious, so she really wasn't paying attention to Shef's twitchy little remark.

[[ OH CHUCKLE CHUCKLE.
YOU ARE SO FULL OF WIT. >_> ]]

Kiki shrugged, and watched quietly as He stomped into another anthill. Was he that hopeless?
She sighed, and waded closer to shore as the water level dropped.Kiki tilted her head to the side, wondering why the others left her with this guy.
Did they all want a break from his antics?

Something thudded into the back of Narissa's neck, annoying her only slightly. The massive snake twisted around to look, observing that Falian and Reign seemed to still be out.

A backpack...? she thought. May be that boy's...

She curled her tongue around it, then pulled it into her mouth. She wouldn't eat it, not yet, but she was curious as to what was inside. Too bad she couldn't open it.

Then again, some people might call that nosy, she thought.

Oh well.

The water finally came into view and she carefully slid Reign and Falian off her back and onto a warm, smooth rock. The fins she had kept closely pulled against her body spread out as she entered the water.

Harlin took a brief moment to take in his surroundings, then slid off Damascus, watching as his Guardian went to take a drink of the cold water. Harlin himself squatted near the water's edge, eyeing the soft, dark soil curiously.

[[ It's up to you.]]

Kiki ignored Shef for now, and went back to her swimming.
She lowered herself underwater and didn't appear back up for a few minutes.

When she did though, In her hand was an Ether-charged Rock.
After rubbing off the mud, it glowed a dim yellow, Kiki gave it a bit of a charge-

[a foolish thing to do. It was like something her temporal soulmate might have done.]

and she threw it at the shore, the ground it landed on giving off a little shock to Harlin sitting by the area.
Kiki bowed to them for the show and dissapeared again, reappearing later reattaching her precious clothing over her jungle swimsuit.
NO, that is not a play on words, it was actually a swimsuit.

A few minutes after that ordeal, Kiki scaled up a tree, and started to skip around, looking for that backpack.

[[ six year old. The teenager has been done over and over. ]]

"OW!"

A voice screamed from the forest.
Someone had hit kiki in the shoulder,
with a rock.
She glared, and crouched from her position on the treebranch.
Kiki tried to glance through the trees at this culprit, but she decided to exact her revenge later.
Idiot and the white cat were sitting on a few rocks near her, and below her.
Well, the cat seemed to be going off, so she may as well follow it.
Seeing as she was sort of their guide of the forest now, since not many knew it as well as her, Kiki felt obligated to be with this group from now on.

She slid down a vine, and gave Shed or whatever his name was a small electrical shock in the waist before scaling up a tree trunk and jumping from tree to tree, following Queenie.

((It took me until the song below had played twice to type everything below the song.))

Shef glanced over when he was shocked and wasn't even surprised to see Kiki was the culprit. With a tired sigh, he strode back into the forest, following a cat, with Kiki overhead.

*timeskip*

Shef arrived and glanced out at the water. It truly was, the River Nanne. Earlier, he and Kiki had been in a small tributary, only a fraction of the width of such a river. That had been almost too big to see the other side.

The Nanne itself, truly magnificent and awe-inspiring, stretched farther than the eye could see--and this was only the beginning of the vast, colossal body of water.

FFX - A Fleeting Dream

It deepened almost immediately from shallows to being impossible to stand. The water eddied and swirled, and silver and rainbow-colored fish darted through its depths. The Nanne was, of course, fresh water, and crystal clear for meters down. You could not see the horizon on the other side.

A cool breeze came off the river's surface, not nearly as icy as the water below it, and refreshed all from long and weary hiking. On the other side of the river was the Riemli, the great sequoia plains as such. A lone bridge, built by giants long ago legends claim, stretched across the water into the distance, disappearing eventually from view.

It was a stone bridge, adorned not at all, inelegant in every way. It rose five feet above the water's surface, and spanned eight feet across. Although it could not be seen from here, in the very center of the river the bridge rose in a cascade of steps to ten yards above the surface. It then descended after fifty yards of flat bridge, back to its original height of five feet above the water. This was for the passage of vessels. But there were no sea-going vessels most of the time. No humans lived in Ether for the most part, ever.

The clouds above were white and soft against a chilly, endless blue sky. There was no sun visible, but light was plentiful.

Shef whistled. This river was larger than any other he had even heard of on Earth. This he knew.