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[sclavus]

WHO: Charles Vane + Gwenaëlle Baudin
WHAT: Swim swamming
WHEN: Vague hand waving at Kingsway
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: nah

[ charles vane is lesson planning.

teaching swimming is not actually as simple as it seems like it should be. how was it he learned? oh yeah, blackbeard's crew threw him over the side of the ship and laughed until his flailing eventually turned into doggy paddling. he's guessing the inquisition won't be so keen on that thought. they've made it through several lessons at this point, and done a decent job with it. no one's died, at least, but there could be improvements, especially once they're getting into the fine tuning of it.

so, instead, he's here, pushing himself up onto the edge of the pier while he watches his co-teacher, gwenaelle, tread water a couple feet below. ]

We have to get them to stop using one hand to hold their damn noses. [ they allowed it, after first, because they kept choking down sea water, but it's just not happening. ] Best you tell them. You've a way with them I don't.

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[elegiaque]

You'll be amazed how competent they become to avoid me, ( cheerily.

she's efficient; her bedside manner is about as good as you'd imagine, having spoken to her for longer than five minutes. )

We need a way to be sure they're opening their eyes, though. Maybe have them swim to something—something that they'd have to look to see.

[sclavus]

I believe that.

[ he hasn't known gwenaelle for terribly long, but long enough that she's not to be tested. she's a strong woman with no shame in speaking her mind and then some. any injury that comes to her is likely to get berated into shame before she's finished stitching them together. but if it works, it works. ]

Agreed. Salt water stings at first. They'll need to get well used to it.