In that instant… time and space warped with the will of both of them. This time Darious kept his arms around her as they entered the water. He had never noticed before, but they seemed to be coming from the bottom of the pool upward instead of downward into it.
Breaking the surface, he looked down at Kyoko to make sure she was all right only to see the softest look on her face as she hugged him back. He was unsure what to do as no one before had ever embraced him in such a manner. Accepting the gift for what it was, Darious began to swim to the edge of the water.
Kyoko placed her ear against his chest, listening to his heartbeat as he took her toward the lip of the pool near the moss. Her mind flashed back to when he was walking across the water toward her and the other guardians. For re
