Ok. Randomness. I decided not to rewrite the last chapter, but im leaving myself space to do so if I want to.

(Reminder: water's name is mizu, she talked in runes mind, and she is a girl. (She))

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Rune sighed as he lay back on the soft grass beside the pool, thinking about his argument with thatz. He sighed again. The annoying twerp had been bugging him and almost discovered his secret, but rune couldn't help but feel guilty.

No point crying over spilled milk.

Rune turned in surprise as the small white dragon landed near him.

"I guess not." He settled back down in the grass and stared up at the sky, a peaceful silence falling over the two. After a while, rune turned to his dragon, a goofy smile plastered on his face.

What?

He kept smiling.

What? She asked again, slightly annoyed.

"Let's go swimming!"

What? She bit his ear. What have you done to my master? Impostor!

"Hey!" he playfully whacked her. "Come on! It'd be fun!"

Humph. She turned her nose up as he slipped under the water. After a few minutes, she turned her head back, looking for the elf.

Rune? She picked herself up and padded, cat-like, over to the edge of the pool. Rune? She looked through the crystal clear water, seeing no sign of her master. Rune? She was getting more concerned now. As she stepped farther onto the edge, un-known to her, a thin wrist slipped out of the water, firmly grasping her forearm. Holly—she squeaked as rune surfaced and pulled her underwater.

Rune, you little—rune laughed as he splashed her in the face.

She sputtered, and then grinned evilly. "Uh oh…" she launched herself at him, water arching gracefully behind her. She landed with a big splash in front of him, sending water into his eyes. "Hey!" he grinned and scooped up a handful of water, throwing it like a liquid snowball. It hit mizu directly between the eyes, making her blue forehead jewel gleam. (She has a blue forehead jewel, okay?) She flashed her fangs good-naturedly.

They splashed around the pool the rest of the after noon, eventually settling for floating on there backs and watching the sky grow darker. Rune, you do realize you have a white shirt on? Rune quizzically looked at her, thinking, white shirt? Huh? White shirt, white shirt… mizu motioned towards the water they where lying on. Water, white shirt… oh! Rune slowly made the connection. Water white shirt see-through shirt!! Rune hurriedly brought his hands to his chest, relaxing visibly when he felt the reassuring texture of the rough cloth wrapped tightly around his torso.

He glared at mizu. "You did that just to annoy me, didn't you?"

He he. Mizu laughed. (That was rhetorical…)

"Annoying little pest!"

Hey!!

"Rune!!!"

Rune looked around, panicked, splashing loudly as he did so.

"Rune!!" the familiar sound of thatz calling his name rang through the forest. He slowly slunk back under the water, swimming silently to the other side of the pool. Just as he surface and was about to make a break for the woods, he hear thatz behind him.

"Ha! I knew you liked to swim!! You're good at it too. Like a fish." A fish? He was not like a fish!

Yes you are.

"shut up, mizu!"

"Hmm?" thatz looked for the thing rune was talking to. Rune slid back into the water and motioned towards mizu.

"Oh! Hi water!"

"Mizu" rune corrected him pointedly as he climbed out of the pond, water streaming off of him.

"Oh. Well, its dinner time!"

Rune snorted. "Trust you to go looking for someone just for dinner."

"Most important meal of the day!" thatz said cheerily, turning to head back into the trees.

"I thought you said breakfast was."

"It is."

"Then how can dinner be too?"

"Rune, how long is it going to take until you realize that all meals are important?"

Rune sighed and shook his head, following thatz.

As they turned around a corner of draqueen castle, they stopped dead at the sight before them; Ruwalk and alfeegie where walking down the hall, hands entwined and talking happily. They too stopped dead when they saw thatz and rune. All four blushed.

"Uh, ya. We'll just be going now." rune and thatz fled towards the dining hall.

That night, dinner was a very awkward ordeal. Rune, thatz, alfeegie and ruwalk where pointedly avoiding each other, making strained conversation with people next to them.

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Ok. Weird placer to stop. But I wanted to get something up before I went to bed.