It took Karin very little time and even less thought to realize Sean had found his true calling. His voice was steady, even, as soothing as the waves at her back - though in a very different way. She wondered if this was what her patients meant when they told her she put them at ease. If so, she was doing a sight better than she had ever dared to hope. The tension did not yet fully ebb from her limbs, though she found breathing an easier task with every passing command. She followed his instruction, moving from one posture to another with an effortless fluidity, focused wholly on each deeply indrawn breath, each slowly exhaled sigh.
You never know what you can do... She could swim to the island, she thought. Shae had pulled her from the water once before, but Shae was gone now. With the strange hours Fee now worked, there would be times when she would not be there to dissuade her, either. A few more weeks of training to get her lung capacity right, to school her muscles to resist cramps or ignore them entirely, and she might make the trip, Coast Guard be damned. She could get there, and perhaps with Sean's help, sooner rather than later.
She slipped into cobra pose, holding it, feeling the comfortable stretch in her arms and lower back. She looked back to her teacher, allowing herself a small smile. "You have no idea how badly I've needed this," she breathed, speaking on a long exhalation. "You're a godsend."