The young man watched the girl splashing happily about in the water. He smiled as he reminisced about how she used to hate the water.
"I wonder… it's been such a long time since any of us were home. Will anyone recognize us? Edge… Sora is from there. I wonder if his mom still runs a bar. Wutai… Dakota says that she's the princess. It was a shock to us, really. She sure has grown… and she doesn't try to hide those stripes anymore. I wonder if we'll get to find out who her dad really is.
Huh. I wonder about Cassie. Whatever happened to that guy who was always chasing her? I hope Dad drove him out of town, long already.
What will they say about Belstraz? I hope that they aren't too upset. It isn't every day that your son comes back with a girl with bat wings and announces she's his wife.
I guess that Aunt Yuffie and whoever Dakota's dad is will be thrilled to see her. Her older brother will be too, probably. Didn't he have red hair? And she knows what she really wants in life. We all-"
~splash!~ He bobbed up, coughing and spluttering. "Hey, no fair!"
He went under again, tackled from his left by the raven-haired girl who was already in the water. When they surfaced, she gave him a look. "What are you waiting for? Go!"
He laughed in reply, before rushing out of the water like a torpedo. He took off running after the blue-haired woman, not caring in the least that his thoughts had been interrupted. It didn't matter, anyway.