❅ Nine (Video)

[stonebird]

(Sansa's Tully blood has surfaced enthusiastically thanks to their new environment, taking her somewhat by surprise. She is dressed in a white shift and she is barefoot, standing on a rock near the sea. Her auburn hair is plaited neatly down her back and she is smiling at the rolling waves below.)

I don't believe I have ever learned how to properly swim. I need lessons; can anyone provide?

(Or there's just the "jump in the water and figure it out" method. She would rather not go about it so crudely.)

The water looks refreshing. Is it cold? The sun must warm the uppermost layer, but the depths have to be freezing.

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[so_dark_a_road]

Oh, good. [ Not everybody knows how easy it is to get hypothermia in the water, even some people who know how to swim don't realize how dangerous cold water can be. Curufin remembers this from both his childhood and his adulthood. ]

I guess there's a point in learning to swim. You'll probably end up in a boat sooner or later, and it's a matter of safety to learn to swim first, if possible. Just. . . if you go into the water, stay very close to shore, and don't swim alone?

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[stonebird]

(She came dangerously close once. The memory is crystal clear in her mind and while she thinks the water is beautiful, she also respects that it is dangerous.)

I have many volunteering to teach me. I would grow too tired if I swam far from the shore. (She suppresses a shiver.)

The currents are what frightens me.

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Nothing like experience to teach one about the perils of the natural world! ]

Good, I am glad there are so many who are willing to help.

They can hopefully help you learn to discern where the dangerous currents are. People who swim in the ocean usually have some awareness of this.

I would begin by bidding you look closely at the white lines of the surf as they come into the beach and break on the rocks. If you see an area where there simply is no surf, be very wary of the water along that stretch. You don't see the surf because the water is flowing out to sea, not into the beach. That's called a rip tide. As the water piles up on the shoreline, gravity seeks to pull the water back off the slope of the beach. It tends to spill back in particular places, in swift out-flowing channels. If you are swimming and you get caught in one of those rip currents, you may be pulled far out to sea. If such a thing happens, do not panic and try to oppose the current in order to get back to shore. If you do that, you risk exhausting yourself and drowning when your strength is gone. Keep your head and swim parallel to the shore, until you come out the other side of the rip current, and then make your way back to shore.