"You look scared," Mattie said, leaning forward. She smirked when he said he was just trying to be safe -- "If you never have adventure life is just boring," she told him. "How can you want to be inside when there is all of this!" She was about to run back out from under the tree when he grabbed her wrists, looking to see if there was anything he was particularly worried about.
Nothing happened, and so she only grinned at him and removed her wrists from his hands. "Race you to that tree!" she said, yelling over the crashing wind and pointing before she took off running through the water, her clothes and hair waving in the wind like the sail of a ship.