[h2]Luke Schwarz -- VGNB Dorms[/h2]

[i]S W I M S U I T[/i]

And just like that, the "cat faunus" theory went straight out of the window, never to return. Everyone knew cats (with the interesting exception of tigers, to his knowledge) had a massive disdain for the water in anything more than drinking form. Did monkeys swim? No, they were almost entirely arboreal. Sure, the likely could, but did they have a compulsion, a physical need?

Absolutely not.

What [i]was[/i] this cute young woman, one year his junior, then? What bloodline could create a being such as her? Neither Cat or Monkey were applicable by his process of elimination, so what was left in the running?

[b]"Oh, a pool?"[/b] he replied, gaining a helpful lightness to his voice. [b]"There's an Olympic-sized one at the Rec Center. It's usually open around ten or eleven on the weekdays, so you should be good to go."[/b]

A place where he found himself not going as much as he'd have expected himself to. Granted, it had really only been three, four days, but already things felt like an eternity...