Thursday; October 25th
Who: Nuray Masterson, Jay Masterson, and Sydni Wilson
When: Afternoon October 25th
Where: Van'taurë Lake
What: Nuray wants to swim and Jay is just not seeing the fascination with this weather.

James Masterson was tired. After what felt like ages of traveling, he and Nuray had finally made it to something that could be considered a home. Their place was sparsely decorated, bits and pieces of things that they had thought better than to leave behind. Settled in a chair, he was quite content to stay that way. Unfortunately, his housing companion was not exactly the kind of person to rest on her laurels. She was moving about like a bumblebee, zipping about the place.

"Jay, come on," she stuck her head into what could be their living room. He looked up at her with half-lidded eyes and asked the obvious question.

"Come on where?"

"To the lake," she said it as though it were something that was absolutely the simplest thing in the world. For Nuray, it most likely was. For James, however, it was hardly quite that simple. He needed the logical steps to get from one major point to another.

"Huh," he sighed and cocked his head to one side. Personally, he was quite happy to sit in his chair. Apparently, Nuray wasn't interested in allowing him to be happy with sitting in his chair. She was back, perched on the arm of his chair a few minutes later.

"Come on," she repeated it. Heaven, she could be just like a child.

"Okay, I'm up," he levered himself out of the chair. He went for his jacket, discarded as it had been on a peg near the door. Nuray was beside him before he reached the door itself. "So where are we going?"

"There's supposedly a saltwater lake near here," her voice was that soft chatter she kept up at times. "And I wanna check it out."

The air was brisk, a little colder than he was really willing to deal with. Together, they walked through the woods in the direction of the water. Undoubtedly, she could smell it long before they got to the shore.

"Yes," a radiant smile came across her face as she reached the shore and without checking to see if there was anyone around, she began to strip out of her clothes.

"Ray," Jay yelled at her behavior. "Think you could at least check your surroundings first?"

"Why? There's nothing can hurt us here?" The mermaid was splashing into the water, leaving her clothes in a littered pile on the sand near her friend. "Come on in."

"It's almost freezing, Ray," he wrapped his arms around his body, rubbing lightly. "There is no way that I'm getting into the water."

Her body had already changed, he could see it when she popped her head back out of the water, she didn't come up much past her chin to keep from gasping for air. "The water's warm though."

Shaking his head, Jay started to pick up her clothes. There was no way that he was getting into the water, no matter how nice she thought the water was. She had a hard time understanding exactly how much cold could effect him. He wasn't as resistant as she was. Then he sat down on the sand, waiting for her to decide to come back up.

Nuray, however, was content to feel the movement of water all along her body and knowing that this was her natural habitat. For a mer, there was nothing like being submerged and free. After the walk over land and through the mountains, she was elated to be in salt water again.