OOC: Post prompt for Swimming :) Anyone can join! -Jasper Rocks edits for spelling ;D And..I have to say.. the last paragraph..is hella inspired by the Spirit Stallion of the Cimmaron bit in the movie where he jumps the canyon.. Slow motion and everything...Except..not as epic of a jump..;D

It wasn't warm by any means.. but the past few days had been warm enough that the ice covering the pool around the falls had cracked, broken and floated away. The falls themselves hadn't ever frozen over of course - to her knowledge at least. Vlarindara trotted up to the falls after having reinforced the boundaries for the pack, then moved away from the wolves intent on exploring the world around her. She couldn't stay cooped up forever..besides, if the falls were a constant source of water even in winter.. the following winters would see it a place to catch prey. The white female had found the riverbank and began moving upstream, for now staying out of the water, and relatively dry. She enjoyed swimming..not nearly as much as she liked running, but she knew swimming was a second best. The rushing of the falls caught her attention and she stopped, tail wagging languidly over her back as the...size of the falls brought amber eyes up and up in reverence. The power of nature truly was something to be revered.

Near the base of the falls the water swirled and billowed before running its course down the very river she had been following to get here. A gentle smile touched the lips of the female as she began climbing up the rocky outcroppings and slippery slopes of the small 'mountain' that made up the waterfalls. Of course, she couldn't just.. demurely step in and go for a swim..oh no.. She had every intention of combining her two favorite activities into one - but the question was.. how could running and swimming become the same thing? It was hard to run through water.. wasn't it? Vlarindara had a rather.. insane image in her head, but she didn't mind it at all.. It was something she'd never done before.. And who said life wasn't about taking risks? Finally, she reached the top of the falls and trotted down the stream a bit until she had found a relatively flattish bit of rock and dirt. Now.. Now she could have the thrill she hoped this would give her.. though it went against every instinct the older female had.. she'd heard once that it was fun.. So why not? Lining up towards the falls, Vlarindara paced a few moments to garner her courage before her paws began pounding into the dirt beneath her, powering her towards the rocks she had chosen.

The dirt gave way to slippery rocks, but she was going too fast to worry about the slippery surface.. the moss and spray. Her path had been planned out, committed.. and now she moved through it. Front paws hit the far edge of the last rocky outcropping, hind paws placed and braced in the same instant.. before powerful haunches stretched, bringing two legs into the air over the falls, then all four. For a glorious few moments, she was flying.. free as the birds, high as the falls themselves. The plumed tail waved behind her, whirling like a pinwheel, jaws open and tongue lolling out for those few precious seconds of being airborne... falling where the earth wished to take her. Her body began to fold and she knew that if she hit the water face first, it would knock the wind out of her, so she threw her hind legs forward and ended up crashing into the water beneath the falls flat on her back... A few moments under the swirling waves and the female surfaced, legs powering her over to the bank of the water..where she pulled herself from the eddies and panted a few moments before shaking herself and running back up towards the top of the falls.. She wasn't going to do it again was she?! ...Crazy Wolf.

OOC: Lawl! Mwahah

Vlarindara sailed once more off the rock face, pitching herself forward and landing on her back in the water before surfacing. Once she reached the air, water flew of her fur as she shook her head before noticing Jaysyek along the edge. Instead of being embarrassed about being caught doing such a rather obscene thing, she simply began swimming over to where her alpha was standing. Once she hit the bank, she moved a few yards down and shook herself to keep from spraying water all over Jaysyek and trotted over to her. "Good day, Jaysyek." She reached the dusted female and crouched, tail tucking beneath her legs as she passed a tongue over the other wolfs jaw and stepped back a bit to settle down on her haunches.

Her fur was sticking out in odd directions, but she didn't mind it before glancing back at the small 'lake' the falls made. Despite settling on her haunches, her breath was coming out in harsh pants from the earlier running and swimming. "You could try it...it's.. a bit interesting.. You feel as if you could fly." Amber eyes seemed to sparkle, her ears pointed forward and trained on the smaller wolf, but her posture was slightly.. attentive.. or as if she were sitting at Attention more or less, without seeming to be. At least the slightly care free look on her face offset the more attentive posture.

A soft, barking laugh escaped her when the female commented about going swimming before getting to her feet and wagging a sodden tail over her back. "The water might be a bit on the cold side now maybe a bit shallow.. but I'm sure once warmer weather comes.. The ice upriver will melt and bring more water.. The sun warming it..I think... I might spend quite a bit of my time here...when it's warmer." Vlarindara smiled, taking a step backwards.. then a few more.. before rummaging up a stick and carrying it in her jaws before running at the water and jumping in. As her head passed underwater, the stick escaped her hold and floated to the surface, followed by the white head breaking for air and shaking. The stick was once more caught up in teeth and flung into the air, wolf swimming beneath to catch it.. or try. It bonked her on the head and flipped into the water again, drawing a laugh from the wolf as she dipped her nose in the water.. and flipped a few droplets at Jaysyek with a mischievous grin.

Another laugh escaped the white female and she got a face full of water before swimming over to where the other wolf was.. and then proceeded to try to hook her legs over her shoulders, back or haunches and push her under the surface.. Of course, she'd let her back up right away, but it didn't stop her from trying to have a bit of fun. Despite her attempt to dunk the other wolf, she was as gentle as possible - no need to drown the female... Or harm possible little ones. Besides, the water wasn't all that deep, and she knew Jayse could swim.. the powerful strokes she used while moving through the water was testament to the fact. Once she tried to dunk her, she started swimming off towards the opposite end of the pool, laughing softly despite her.. not so good swimming skills. She could swim, but she wasn't..exactly fast.

The feeling of triumph of dunking the other female didn't last long.. the wave of water came at her and she squeaked before it hit then laughed, shaking her head before heading towards the shore as Jaysyek had done. The white female stepped out and then ran at the waterfall, scrambling up the side once more before finding her original launch point and ran...only to leap and fly off the rocks once more. Instead of flipping this time, she stuck her legs out and landed before surfacing. The water dropplets that had flown off her pelt when she jumped had rained down like the moisture from the clouds itself, and were done by the time that she came up. Now she struck out towards shore and shook herself before trotting over to the other female and plunking down next to the rock to begin cleaning her own fur.

The question brought an ear up before it fell back against her neck again. "Not much to be honest. I ran into Kauda and helped her mark the boundaries. We can hope that if any wolves happen to come up on us will have no excuse but to know exactly what they're walking into." Vlarindara chuckled, shifting and biting a few stones from between her toes.. a hazard of running off waterfalls, she guessed. "What about you? I've woken up a few mornings and both you and Borden are already out and about.. find anything interesting?"