Aspenpaw's Training [P]

[goodacacia]

Floodsight
✦ RiverClan | 22 moons | Mind Reader ; Beefed Up T3 ; empty slot

This one was full of surprises. One moment, he'd been confident and the next, it was a mouth full of water. She'd almost launched herself to grab the little one by the scuff, and definitely will so, if that happened again. "Keep her head up high, out of the water."

She did as she explained before lifting her paws off the riverbed slightly before falling back down. The silver she-cat gracefully floated in the water in a bobbing motion. Once in a while, she'd kicked her paws off the river's floor. "As long as you can touch the river's floor, you'll be able to kick yourself upwards. This helps you float for a seconds..."

Floodsight moved further into the lesson, demonstrating a paddling motion with her paws. "And if you rotate your legs and paws in a circular motion by pushing down on the water, it helps you stay upwards without kicking the riverbed."

"Swimming can be tiring, so let me know if you're ever feeling tired." She reminded, before giving him the time and space to try floating once more.

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Slowly, and a tad bit reluctantly, aspenpaw lifted his paws off the river bank once again. This time trying to focus mainly on keeping his head high above water. However when the water neared his neck he began to feel panic again. What if he slipped! What if drowned!? He gast his mentor a series of frantic glances as he attempted to mimic what she was doing exactly the same. Kicking up of the river bed a few times he began to get the idea of it. An' just as he was getting used to floating, Floodsight decided to move on to something else. Usually aspenpaw preferred moving on once he got the basics down but he felt a bit more nervous with swimming. Which was dumb ofcourse becuase he was riverclan and this was were he belonged.

"circle- motion. Got it" he choked out, how was his mentor able to talk and swim at the same time and look so graceful and relaxed!! He felt like a fish on dry land, he was quite opposite of graceful as he floundered around in the water trying to "swim". Attempting the the rotating paws thing his mentor had said, Aspenpaw began to paddle around. He was doing it! Or was he just sinking in style. He felt like every awful paddle forward, his right shoulder would sink further into the water. His left shoulder followed but not as quickly. He felt lopsided, of Centered, like he was swimming on his side. He was doing it right though because he was drowning! "like this!?" he shouted as droplets of water sprayed everywhere as he paddled around in oddly shaped circle. No one's perfect

( Floodsight; @goodacacia )