[ Considering the fact that water seems to be her nemesis, it's a valid question. ]
I grew up on the ocean, I definitely swim.
[ Her family home is long gone but she'd grown up falling asleep to the sound of the waves and learned to swim in the shallows. Her father couldn't stand to be in the house after her mum died; he never considered Clara wanted to be in the same space, that she would walk the same footprints in the kitchen as her mother every time she made a soufflรฉ. That every time she walked out of their front door, onto the sand and into the water, she thought of her mum and it was cathartic.
Sucking her bottom lip between her teeth, Clara looks at him, down at the water, and then out toward the ruins. ]
I should've brought dry clothes and left them back where we shipped off.
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I grew up on the ocean, I definitely swim.
[ Her family home is long gone but she'd grown up falling asleep to the sound of the waves and learned to swim in the shallows. Her father couldn't stand to be in the house after her mum died; he never considered Clara wanted to be in the same space, that she would walk the same footprints in the kitchen as her mother every time she made a soufflรฉ. That every time she walked out of their front door, onto the sand and into the water, she thought of her mum and it was cathartic.
Sucking her bottom lip between her teeth, Clara looks at him, down at the water, and then out toward the ruins. ]
I should've brought dry clothes and left them back where we shipped off.