It was an eerie place. Like swimming through shallow water where the pounding surf swirled pale sand into clouds so that one couldn't see their fingers at the end of their outstretched hand, the mist obscured vision and made direction difficult to determine.
Hadama left the surface to Ray and dove deeply to the bottom of the lake, using his trident to etch a line of markers so they would be able to find their way back while his human friend swam the waters above him.
The lake was not without islands of its own, and in time they found one that seemed roughly the same shape as the one in the map, in what the mermanta thought was the center of the lake. He surfaced and handed the map to Ray wordlessly, for he could not easily follow her onto land - even such a small islet as this.
Hadama left the surface to Ray and dove deeply to the bottom of the lake, using his trident to etch a line of markers so they would be able to find their way back while his human friend swam the waters above him.
The lake was not without islands of its own, and in time they found one that seemed roughly the same shape as the one in the map, in what the mermanta thought was the center of the lake. He surfaced and handed the map to Ray wordlessly, for he could not easily follow her onto land - even such a small islet as this.
