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The Pool, Saturday afternoon

Dinah opened the door to the pool and held it for Jaime, smiling. "And here we are. Pretty easy to find." She hit the lights, and grinned as the pool lit up, dropping her towel and cover-up onto a nearby chair, then kicked off her flip-flops. "High dive, low dive, lanes. Pretty much a standard pool. All rumors of sharks have yet to be anything more than stories.

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Karla glanced over, saw Leda, and waved. She was up on the diving board, so rather than climb down, she executed a graceful swan dive into the pool and then swam over to where Leda was standing. "Kiss kiss," she said. "Ready for that swimming lesson?"

"Yeah." Leda nodded, when she was done being impressed at the dive. "Though I don' think I'm ready for that yet." she pointed to the diving board.

Karla laughed. "I wouldn't make you high dive," she promised. "At least not yet. Though, for a lesson, you're actually going to have to get into the water."

Leda nodded, taking a deep breath. "That's the shallow end right?" she pointed to the end away from the diving boards. She was wearing a one piece swimsuit under her clothes. It was still probably more revealing than the suits in Karla's world.

YES IT WAS. In Kaeleer, everyone was much more modest about showing off their legs. As it should be.

"It is," Karla said, standing up to Leda could see that the water only came up to her shoulders. "Plenty deep enough for you to learn in, but shallow enough that you don't have to worry."

Karla should have met the nudists in Castle Pup. Well, not true nudists, but they thought nothing of being naked around other people.

Leda gasped a bit when she slid into the cool water. One hand stayed on the edge.

"Okay. What do I do first Bert?"

"The first step is getting comfortable in the water," Karla said lightly. "Just relax. Let it buoy you up. Hold your nose and dunk your head under. You're going to have to get comfortable with your face in the water."

"Right. Okay." She pinched her nose with her free hand, screwed her eyes shut, and ducked under.

Karla also ducked under the water, just to make sure Leda didn't panic and start thrashing around or anything.

Not yet. She had no idea how long she could hold her breath though, so she didn't stay underwater very long. When she came back up, she gasped a bit, her hair coming down in her face.

"Good job," Karla applauded, coming back up with her. "Though we really ought to see how long you can stay under for."

Don't chicken out now Leda. "Okay...I can do that."

"I'll time you," Karla said gently, giving Leda a supportive smile. "You can come up any time."

"Okay." Leda took a deep breath, closed her eyes, pinched her nose, and plunged below the surface, even letting go of the edge of the pool.

Buoyed by the water, her feet left the bottom and she felt weightless.

Karla slowly began counting. "One...two...three..."

Leda was doing okay so far. She was kind of enjoying the floating sensation actually.

Karla just kept up a steady count until Leda resurfaced.

After 15 seconds Leda put her feet down to resurface, but slipped. She flailed a bit, but managed to stand before panic could quite set in.

Karla was there when her head broke the water. "You okay?" she asked. "I saw you stumble there, but you righted yourself before I could get you."

She appeared outwardly calm, but with the hand that was gripping the edge of the pool was white knuckled. She was scared, but working hard to control it.

"Sorry. I'll try to give you more of a chance to rescue me next time." she joked.

"It's only fair, what with that time I had to play damsel, remember?" Karla teased gently. "I think you owe me one."

That was about enough with the underwater stuff, at least for today. "Let's practice some kicking," she decided. "Hold onto the wall of the pool," well, Leda had that bit down, "and stretch your body out. Then kick in the water, okay?"

"I promise, next time I'll let you rescue me. And afterwards I'll reward you in the traditional manner. So I lay on my back?"

Karla's lip twitched a bit at that. Even she couldn't miss the linking of 'the traditional fashion' and 'laying on her back.' "Not this time," she said. "Try on your stomach first."

It'd been totally unintentional yeah, hard to miss it once it was out there.

"Okay." She tentatively leaned forward, still holding onto the wall. Then, stretching her legs out behind her, and awkwardly arching her back to keep her head above water.

Karla stepped over and supported Leda's stomach with her forearms, so she wouldn't have to arch as far. "Just relax," she murmured. "Let the water hold you up."

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