Posted by James Sinclair in Event Horizon - Star-Crossed No Longer (Tag Faye)

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Event Horizon - Star-Crossed No Longer (Tag Faye)

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Stepping out, Faye inhaled the salty air as it caressed her bare skin that was revealed. Long bare legs, supple and well muscled arms, a highly toned torso that at least now had lost its skin and bones appearance. Nothing her yoga outfit hadn’t shown off, but it was different, and she understood that. And because she wanted to save Dag any further mortification, she stepped quickly through the soft sand to the water.

Reaching the shoreline. Faye’s eyes traced the visible bottom and she was reassured she wouldn’t hit anything. She took running steps into the water and and then pushed off, launching into a graceful arc into the surface of the waves. She would let Dag catch up when he was ready. See? She could learn. Once she had thought herself just naturally hopeless, but she had the capacity to learn those tiny social cues if people would just suck it up and be honest already. And she loved him too much to purposefully make him uneasy, even if was sort of the good kind. Maybe later. But not now. They still had a dinner to go to, after all.

~Faye Calloway

Daggum emerged and looked around, spotting Faye out in the water. He trotted towards the waves and made his way out far enough to submerge his body and then dropped fully underwater. He pushed up form the sandy bottom and broke the surface, shaking his head to clear the water from his eyes. He saw Faye about thirty yards ahead, and smiled to himself. He dropped under the water and began swimming along the bottom, his eyes fixed on her from under the surface.

Her hands moving back and forth as her legs kicked to hold her stationary, Faye had closed her eyes and tipped her head to the sun. Momentarily lost in the warmth, she didn’t know he was so close, though she was expecting him to join her soon enough.

As he closed the gap, he rolled over swam looking up until he was directly below her and then rose gracefully to the surface and lifting out of the water with his body; like an ocean-going platform lifting a smaller vessel free of the waves “Surprise! Bet you didn’t know you could use me as a flotation device, did you?” and he smiled at her.

Daggum

Faye let out a little shriek of surprise, but it really came out more like a squeak.

Laughing, she gazed down at him, her legs hanging off his side, water trailing down her skin. “Well, if you had told me this was a part of the whole deal I would have said we should have done this sooner. I didn’t know I’d get my own personal raft,” she said with a grin, he hands bracing herself on his large torso. She wasn’t small compared to most Human woman, but man she was comparatively tiny to him!

The sun glinted off her silver IDIC pendant as water dripped down from it too.Her fingers traced it as she gazed deeply at Dag. “We had a lake at the settlement on Tracken. During the warmer seasons I swam in it every single day nearly without fail. Sometimes to cool off after a hard day of physical work, sometimes just to find peace. It was like when I was in the water, nothing else existed. Even in the stars I’m too… aware of everything. But in the water I can be lost for a little. In a good way.”

~Faye Calloway