"Ok..." Onyx sat down in the water next to Tarentek, still holding his hand and opening her wings so they wouldn't get wet yet. It was a lot harder for her not to look at the water now, and she had stopped looking at Tarentek when she sat down, so she started trying to keep her focus on the sky. "I remember why I was scared of heights before I could fly. My brothers, Topaz and Opal, told me that if I were to high up on my own that I'd be taken by invisible monsters in the wind. Now the wind is my domain, and the only monsters there could ever be there are those in our imagination." She laughed a little, the sound holding more nerves than humor.

"Yes, some Elissics swim simply because they can, but I doubt any of them ever had an experience like mine." Onyx spoke more haltingly now, trying to keep her breathing steady as she kept her gaze on the sky. "I'm really not doing very well at trying not to think about that, I can feel the water around me and I keep remembering how it felt to be trapped under it."