After a few tries in the water to get used to the movements she’d taught him, Théadan was headed her way. Navia looked on closely, wanting to try to catch any errors to correct, but Théadan was a good student. He did not move as quickly or as gracefully through the water as she did, but she’d also been swimming since she was a child. It was akin to how comfortable he was wielding a sword. She could tell his breathing was not very even, but that would come with practice and learning to breathe only when lifting his head from the water. She was not concerned about it and as he came closer, his hands eventually reaching out to touch at her waist, Navia was grinning proudly at how he had managed to do what she’d instructed after only a couple times. It was going far better than floating had.<br/><br/>Théadan rose from the water with a grin on his face and his breath coming deeply. Navia’s gaze followed his movements and the way the water dripped from him until he was standing at his full height again. She tipped her head back to look up at him, her body instinctively stepping closer to close the gap between them. “It was good,” she assured him with a grin to match his, her hands wandering up his chest before flattening at the back of his neck, “You have the movements and the pacing right, you just need to practice so you can get used to how to breathe. Eventually you won’t have to think about lifting your head up to take a breath, it’ll just come naturally to you.” Her hands tightened on his neck then, guiding him downward as she rose up to bring their faces close. “All that effort deserves a reward, doesn’t it?” She asked rhetorically, her lips covering his for a warm kiss.<br/><br/>Oh, but he was warm and wet and so pleased with himself for managing to swim to her that Navia had trouble allowing the kiss to be as simple as she’d originally intended. Her arms around him tensed more, the pleasure him learning from her encouraging her to deepen the kiss. Her lips grew a bit more insistent on his before Navia remembered they still had more to accomplish. Wanting to use it as an incentive for them both, she broke the connection of their lips before they could get too carried away. She did so with a sigh however, and smiled up at him as she stepped back from him. “Now for your legs,” Navia announced, pushing a couple strands of her hair back from her face. She had to debate how to teach him to move his legs correctly, but she figured the easiest way would be to describe it and model it like she’d done with the arm movements.<br/><br/>“So you’re going to need to mirror the movements your arms made with your feet,” Navia sat back to float in the water to show him what she meant, her arms circling on either side of her to help keep her afloat while her legs moved. “Of course, this will be while you’re face down in the water, but you’re going to draw your knees toward your chest enough that your feet end up by your rear when your arms are under your chest. At the same time you push your arms outward, you’re going to kick your legs out and downward in a circle. Then your legs will end up together and that’s when your arms will make the big circle.” It seemed like a lot, and Navia paused to show him what she meant by slowly making her legs go through the motions under the water. It took a little strength from her arms to keep from dunking herself in the water, but she managed to model the kick a few times before she had to stand again.<br/><br/>“I think you should practice just the kick first,” she decided after considering how much new coordination it would take to put the two moves together when he hadn’t even practiced the kick before. “You can push off the bottom of the ocean, then keep your arms stretched out in front you, then practice the kick. I’ll show you…and if you can catch up to me…” Navia looped an arm around Théadan’s neck again, abruptly tugging him down to her level so she could capture his lips in a more heated kiss than before, a small hum of pleasure leaving her. She pulled back before he could get too much from the kiss in an attempt to leave him wanting, to give him motivation to catch up to her. To entice him a bit more, she grinned up at him as her teeth closed around his bottom lip and tugged lightly, “Mm…there will be more of this.”<br/><br/>She let go him just as quickly as she had made a grab for him, instead turning to take off into the water again, using the sandy bottom of the ocean to initially propel her. Navia glided through the water with little effort, keeping her arms extended in front of her just like she had told Théadan to, using the kick she’d shown him to move her through the water. She lifted her head when she needed air and took a quick breath, then continued to keep her face tucked between her arms. Once she felt she was far enough to be a reasonable challenge for Théadan to reach, she stood to look back at him with a taunting smirk on her dark features.