Sanguine Cove Don't know whatcha got

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A good student asked questions, so like a good teacher Mona graciously answered. "Here, you can stand up if you start to sink," she said. "Don't breathe in the water or you'll drown. Once you got the hang of it we can go further out." She had no doubt Feyre would be able to swim in no time - just not enough time to beat Mona at her game. No way Mona would let anyone else get across the lake before her!

When Feyre finally struck out, she swerved around. Mona couldn't help a small snort of amusement. "Well, you didn't sink," she said. "You're not pushing evenly with all four paws. Try again, like this." Mona swam back the way they'd come, stopping around the same place they'd started. "It's a little harder when you have to scrunch up, so we can go deeper when you think you can stay up."

That, and deeper was more fun.

Mona explained why they couldn't go further out or rather shouldn't. It made perfect sense to Feyre. She didn't want to sink and being able to put her paws under her. That wasn't all that the other girl offered either. A warning came out of her mouth too. "You can breathe in the water?" She asked not really understanding how that was possible. "It shouldn't take long then." How hard could swimming be?

Feyre quickly found out that it wasn't as easy as it looked. Her first attempt didn't go well at all but Mona had a good point. "At least there's that." The other girl told her what she was doing wrong before showing her once again how to move her legs. "Alright. Here goes again," she said before trying again. "It really is harder being scrunched up," she agreed as she tried to keep her legs moving more evenly. "Is this better?" she asked hoping it was since she felt she was more even in the water.

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Mona stood in the chest-deep water and waited for Feyre to try again, only for her to ask the dumbest question imaginable. Mona made a face. "No, of course not! I said don't breathe the water. Didn't your parents ever tell ya to be careful in the water?" she scolded. The last thing she needed was for her agemate to drown on her watch; then her parents would never let her near the water again!

But Feyre was taking to the water again, adjusting her strokes so she sad more evenly. Once she'd come alongside Mona again the Eastfall-Slayer girl gave her an appraising look. "Better," she said, not wanting to admit Feyre had picked it up even faster than expected. "Try again."

Feyre huffed irritstedly at the other girl when she took a tone with her for her question. Still she didn't say anything cause Mona was teaching her something that the Blackbird really did want to learn. "Of course they taught me about the water but they didn't say anything about not breathing in the water." She didn't remember a single mention of that.

The second time Feyre tried the swimming out she felt like she was doing better. Mona even said she was and that made the dark furred girl feel better about her efforts. "Okay, here goes," she said just before she started again trying even more to adjust her paddling. "I think this is better," she said. "What do you think Mona?"

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It was disappointing, really, how quickly Feyre was getting the hang of swimming. Less time for Mona to show off. Or... it meant she was a great teacher! Mona watched the other girl paddle across the water and gave a snort of approval. "Much better." She flipped her tail in the water, splashing a little as she did. She forced a smile on her face. "Good job!"

And then, just out of spite, Mona bounced and splashed Feyre before backing into deeper water and paddling away. "Think you can catch me?"

Feyre couldn't believe how well she was doing considering she'd never swam before. She was glad that she was learning though. She kicked her feet underneath her and went around in circles. Hearing that she was doing much better and that she was doing a good job only fueled her on. She wad having fun for the first time since her dad had left them.

At least that was until Mona bounced her in the water before splashing her. The Blackbird spit the water that had collected in her mouth out. Then her attention was turned on Mona who was now heading for deeper waters. Feyre didn't know if she coukd catch Mona but she sure was going to try. "I'll catch you," she shouted determinedly just after she'd already started for Mona.