My Stella is back, Celestial Metals are together again, everything is beautiful. Guys, I've had this idea for so long, like, I got it pretty early on in Flight and thought it was a great idea, but I didn't think it would *work* right then I guess. But now I can write it for real, and it's precious, and I really hope you enjoy.
Three of them stood at the edge of the pool and looked in, Sausage already in water up to his waist, and Zam couldn't say she wasn't curious.
"You don't have to go in, if you don't want to."
Graecie brushed her pinkie along the back of Zam's hand briefly at the remark.
"You don't have too! Especially if you're worried about your suit."
"Maybe your suit can take it with the new crystal?"
Sausage, whose shoulders were water level at this point, peered up and asked.
"Perhaps, yeah. I'm just worried. But I can, maybe, I can try slowly?"
She kicked the water with one of her boots gently in curiosity.
"Take your time! And if you feel any different, if you feel weird or get scared, then you can jump right out. It's okay."
Zam walked over to the steps leading into the pool, Graecie all but glued to her side after getting in the shallow water with her, Sausage a foot or so ahead of them both and standing guard, and Legundo stood on the edge with eyes following their every move.
"Yeah? That's not so bad?"
Legs asked from the side, the water was to her shins and she kicked it gently, gaging whether or not her spacesuit had been affected.
"Just one step at a time, whatever you're most comfortable with."
"Yeah, we won't go right in the deep end, don't worry."
Graecie squeezed her hand carefully and Zam squeezed back.
"I'll be slow, I'm okay."
Sausage had moved a handful of inches back to make enough room for her to get a bit deeper in the water, which was almost chest level now.
"Yeah? Ready for a quick dive under?"
She looked over to Graecie, who rubbed her thumb on the back of Zam's hand underwater, and at Legs who had asked the question.
Sausage stood just inches in front of her with his arms out, Graecie hadn't moved an inch from her side, and Zam sunk into the water until it reached her chin.
"Oh, there you go, you're almost there, and just your little antennae, there we go!"
With an inhale from all four of them, she was fully under the water.
When she broke the surface seconds later, all of them had tilted heads, but smiled softly.
She reached up to her helmet with one hand, she reached to her chest with the other, and kicked one of her legs a couple times to test the abilities of her suit.
"That's good, that's really good!"
Zam put her head back under and swam in Sausage's direction, who was clapping when she broke the surface.
"There we go, you did it, you did it!"
She moved a few more feet, keeping her head above the water, just practicing swimming.
"I'm right here, if anything happens I'm right here and can pull you up, it's alright."
Legundo, who had followed the rest of them in every direction outside of the pool, was smiling brightly.
Graecie had brought her hands out of the water and clapped.
After a couple more laps both fully submerged and with her head above water, she let Graecie take her hand and pull them to sit on the edge.
Legs and Sausage stood and chatted on the other side of the pool, the other two laying flat on their backs in content.
Zam held Graecie's hand between them as they dried off and squeezed gently.
Graecie paused from ringing out a piece of her white hair with the other hand and squeezed back.
