[b] [u]Astrid[/u] [/b]

Astrid was laying on her back floating in the water. Flakes of dried blood slowly peeled themselves off of her skin and drifted down the river. As she was, her ears lay below the surface, blocking out most sound. It was peaceful for her in this position. Even here the birds and the sounds of the forest faded away until all that was left was the constant flowing, rushing of the water moving past her. She expected the peace wouldn't last very long. Sooner or later someone would come looking for her, wondering where she had wondered off to. Not that she cared too much what the other people thought. 

A sudden movement in the trees caused her eyes to shoot open from their acute position. They snapped to the position in the woods where she thought she saw movement and realized that Joachim was standing there. Flying up onto her feet as fast as she could she spat out, "Shit Joachim!" She attempted to cover herself up, but it was much too late to take away what he had already seen. Unfortunately her clothes where on the side of the river that he was standing on, so she had to move closer to him to dress herself. Realizing that he could probably still see her naked form she swore at him again. "Fuck. Look away, look away!" 

On land she half hid herself behind a tree, while quickly throwing on her clothes. "Thousand bloody arrows, don't you say anything before you walk up on a woman trying to wash blood out of her hair." After her rude awakening from her peaceful bath, her hair was splattered all across the right side of her face. Still looking at him untrusting she raised a hand to brush it out of her eyes.