She smiled smugly as her nips landed like a steady rain on his neck and ears, of course he couldn’t see it but she was feeling quite proud of herself until she felt him shift beneath her. He still had the advantage being able to touch here where she couldn’t and she wondered what he was up to…right up to when he reared out of the water. All she had time for was a high-pitched yip composed of surprise and indignation as she tumbled from his high shoulders and splashed into the cool waters once more. She flounders for a few moments, her feet thrashing through the water until she can right herself. Her golden head reemerges sputtering water and shaking to clear her ears and vision. She barely had time to catch sight of him moving toward her through the waterfall flowing from her forehead.

She can barely make out his silvery form as he gets beneath her and tosses her in to the water once more. Coming up this time she makes for the shore until she can get her footing and is chest deep in the river once more. Giving a hearty shake she fixes him in her aquamarine gaze, mischief glinting like the sunlight off the water therein. “Who knew I loved such a devilish creature,” she teased before gathering her slender limbs beneath her and diving back toward him again. She lands with a solid splash just beside him, hoping to give him a face full of water before she paddles out to the middle of the river, the deepest part where even he could not find purchase on the rivers floor.

She bobs there, waiting for him and even giving a resounding bark of challenge, daring him to come get here where they would be on even ground…or lack thereof! The smile on her face is huge, feeling younger than she had in some time it beams like the sun around her. She loved her family, neither she or anyone else could ever doubt that but nothing would ever replace these times with her love. Just the two of them being purely themselves in the only way they knew how. They had healed each other thanks to the fates designs, he of his nightmares of her of her multitude of fears. Together they were whole.