Chapter 267

In a way it was good I was forced to swim, it relaxed me. The quiet water was soothing at it always was. Still, I wished I could talk to Rose, so much had happened lately. When Fuji came up beside me in the water, I nearly screamed.

Fuji’s idea of getting my attention was to slide her freezing cold hands up my legs as I inspected a tiny plant in about six feet of water. I jerked around to face her and then surfaced for a breath. She was standing on the bottom and talking to me from under water.

I plunged my head beneath the surface and found I could actually hear her. She somehow could transmit sound through the water. It was remarkably strange.

“Come closer to shore. Rose found a place in the water she is willing to be. She wants to talk to you,” Fuji said.

I nodded, dumbstruck as Fuji walked underwater back toward the shore.

Swimming back toward the compound, I saw Rose in the water. She sat in a small tidal pool that was separated from the main swimm