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[river_meimei]

The days are getting shorter, and colder. It's well into autumn now, and before too long it'll be too chilly to be comfortable without heavy jackets and boots

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[his_fathers_sin]

Standards of cold are a little different for Tidus.

Okay, a lot different. It's enough that since he's trying not to think about most of what's happened today, Tidus dove in a bit ago, blitzball under arm.

It's really, when he surface and uses his head to knock it into the air, more like watching dolphins at play than anything else.

[his_fathers_sin]

"O...kay?"

He swims closer to the shore until he's standing in the water, watching her like she's...

Hell, what does he know, he never saw a fiend til a few days ago.

"I'm Tidus."

[river_meimei]

"River," she informs him.

[his_fathers_sin]

"Pretty name for a pretty girl," he grins.

[river_meimei]

River's been told that before. Then as now, it usually gets a patiently blank look.

"It's my name," she adds after a minute.

[his_fathers_sin]

"Kinda guessed. Tidus is mine," he adds.

Just, y'know, in case.

[river_meimei]

"I know." That's cheerful.

"Introductions."

[his_fathers_sin]

"...Uh-huh," Tidus says, only a little slowly, as he eyes her again.

"So. You, um. Come here a lot?"

[river_meimei]

"Sometimes."

[his_fathers_sin]

"Me too," he says, helpfully, and then tosses the ball a few times.

Weird girl.

Pretty, but weird.

[river_meimei]

It's the popular theory.

"Through the lake." Maybe that's a question. Maybe not, though.

[his_fathers_sin]

He brightens, a little.

If she knows how he got here--

"Yeah! Yes! Through the lake! You know about it?"

[river_meimei]

River stares at him.

"Right there."

See, Tidus? It's big and wet and you're standing in the middle of it.