Sophia and I descended the mountain together.  
The moment I thought about shaking off the water, my body moved on its own.  

Shake, shake, shake—  
Like a cat drying itself, my body twisted left and right.  
It was an instinct that only emerged when a beastfolk was thoroughly soaked.  

"Sophia, have you always been that fast?"  

"I am in the water."  

"Oh..."  

A shark in the water—how fitting.  
I looked at Sophia as she stepped out of the stream.  
Her lively appearance, so different from …