Drowning?

Leah stumbled toward the lake, occasionally nearly tripping over stones and discarded looking objects. Her arms and legs flailed wildly as she half ran and half fell into the lake. "Eeurrrghh", a soft groan escaped her as she felt the soft ground give way beneath her butt and the wet mud find its way into her pants. The freezing watwr had something of a sobering effect on Leah, of course she shouldn't have expected the lake to be 50 feet deep right from the shore. But then again when she rushed here she hadn't been thinking about anything at all, infact she dint quite remember why it wss so important to come to the lake in the first place. Huh.
Calmy plucking a bug out of her hair, Leah lay back in the wet mud, amongst the reeds. In hindsight the pale blue shorts her mother had sent her for Christmas probably wasn't the best outfit for a nighttime swim, she thought as she watched the soft ripples of the lake wash the mud off her feet.

Leah hadn't even realised when her eyes had closed of their own accord until they flew open in response to a sudden sound ahead of her. In the few instants it took for Leah to blink the sleep out of her eyes, her thoughts were all over the place. Ahead of her? That couldn't be right, she thought, shaking her head slightly. There was only the lake ahead of her and how could someon-"HOLY ZEUS!", she yelled, sitting up abruptly and scrambling backward. Still flat on her butt in the mud, Leah took "How did-But..you.." Leah, trailed away wondering absently if there had been anything more potent in the liquids she had downed earlier on. Damn that sneaky Hermes cabin she cursed silently before turning to attention back to the giant figure that towered over her. As it-he, as he stood with his back to the moon, blocking it's light, Leah was unable to make out anything specific about him. Having been lost in thought and more-than-slightly flustered, Leah realised too late that the this boy, whoever he was, had been saying something. "What are you?" she muttered, under her breath, squinting up the figure looming over her.

Leah blinked at the long winded explanation of the boy before her. Although she'd missed more than few of the words, she'd gotten the answer to her question from his voice and the fact that he hadn't ripped her to shreds yet, which suggested that he probably wasn't some kind of humanoid monster. Then again, one couldn't be too sure..he had just walked across the surface of the lake. Perhaps he's from one of the water god cabins? Leah mused, absently, distracted by the dull ache that was beginning to make itself felt near her temples.

She opened her mouth to speak, just as the bo- David, she mentally corrected, extended his hand to help her up. Leah was suddenly conscious of what a ridiculous sight she must make for. Lying among the reeds, completely soaked from the waist-down, wet mud caking her palms and bare legs. Biting her lip slightly to hide her growing embarrassment, Leah made to subtly wipe some of the mud off on her, now ruined, shorts before reaching out to take David's extended hand and pull herself up.

She needn't have bothered hiding her embarrassment however, no sooner than she was upright, Leah felt a sudden wave of vertigo and stumbled, nearly losing her footing on the soft, uneven ground. One hand automatically flew to her temple and it was a few seconds before Leah realised the fingers on her other hand were digging into David's palm, which is what had kept her from falling onto her butt again. She couldn't decide which was more embarrassing, continuing to hold on to the hand of a complete stranger or letting go and possibly falling in the mud again. Shaking her head slightly at herself, Leah exhaled in a small puff of air that rose up as mist, as she released her grip on David's palm and took a small step backwards. "Sorry about that.", she began slowly, conscious of how her voice sounded lower than usual, "I promise I dont usually require support to stand. Infact, standing is probably one of the things I'm best at. That and sitting. I'm amazing at sitting."

SINCE KHZ HAS STOPPED POSTING. I"M ABANDONING GOOD BYE!