"It must mean that the person who finds these spots must be special somehow." Emrys smiled, before leaning over the lake's edge.
"I haven't seen such pretty water since I was younger. Brings back memories." She whispered softly, staring at her own reflection only to find that she truly didn't recognize the person in the water. Her blonde hair was stuck to her forehead, not to mention crazy short, exactly like a boy's. She did a pretty good job hiding her gender with changing her looks, she almost surprised herself.
"So, your highness, shall we enjoy the water like the horse's are?" Emrys removed just her jacket, keeping her white tunic on. She removed her boots, and then rolled up her pants before stepping into the water. She just couldn't resist swimming anymore, even if it was a big risk to her secret.

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"you can go in," he said keeping the door opened for him, he was happy that Ammon said yes to his plan. Truth was he never viewed him as a slave, he saw him more as a friend. But for his sake he need to pretend in front of his father that he was. He remembered hiding from being punished or hide his toys in here from his father so he wouldn't get hurt. Soon he turned it into his own little shop like thing for making cloths and dress. He had some make up his mom tried to throw out saying she didn't like the color or other stuff. He was to girl in his fathers opinion so as far as anyone knew he didn't existed unless in the court.

"Why else would i bring you here ?" He reply with a playfull smile while taking his shirt off and rolling his pants. Obviously the prince woudn't do sutch a thing around womans but as far as Averill knew his slave was a boy as well so it would only make the job a bit easyer when it came to do the laundry. Since his hiden sword woudn't rust while being on his skin he didnt wory about removing it as he jump into the water.

Emrys happened to look back as he was doing so, and her first reaction was to quickly look away due to her being so modest, she was still a lady on the inside after all! For a split second she had forgotten that Averill was under the impression she was male, and that it was alright for him to remove clothing in this situation. She managed to pull herself together, diving into the cool water and resurfaced with a grin.
"Maybe it's all a trick and you brought me here to drown me." She teased, and boldly splashed some water in his direction.

He laugh teasing him back with a falsly surprise voice. " And i though i was being sneaky enough for you not to see it... Too late i am going to get you now." His eyes were sparkling mischiviously as he dived while swimming toward the younger boy to pull him underwater like he had the habit to do with his siblings. Of course he knew how to do it safely from back then, there was no way he would willingly let Yerik be hurt from them messing around.

"Oh no, whatever shall I do?" She replied in a fake distressed voice, acting like a damsel in distress.
Emrys gave a laugh, and widened her eyes when he dove under the water. She looked around, but she
couldn't even see where he was going to pop up at. It gave her slight anxiety, but at the same time, she was having the time of her life. She kept treading water, turning in all directions to look for any sign of Averill in the waters.

Sneaking behind the custom collar, as silent as he could in the water, he coudnt stop a playfull grin from forming on his face. Sudenly Averill jump out, catching the younger boy by his waist before brigning them down with him in the water. Somthing felt wrong tho, was Yerik suposed to be that light ? He had never realy done that type of things to anyone that wasnt from his familly and again it was years ago, the prince coudnt put his finger on it but somthing on the back of his mind was telling him that he wasnt suposed too.

Emrys let out a surprised shriek as Averill submerged her under water, squirming around in his grasp. Part of her was way nervous about being so close to him, especially when he body was literally pressed up right against his own. She knew she was on the smaller side, she hoped Averill would just pas it off as her being scrawny. She wiggles her way to the surface, gasping for air while she laughed, wiping the water from her eyes as well as her wet bangs that stuck to her forehead messily.

Averill came back up with a cheaky smile, tho he had still this wordless question on the back of his head. "You are alot smaller then i though." He was never one to pry too mutch, that was probably why he wasn't as close as he had been with his siblings, but there was somthing about Yerik that he coudn't figure out. At first he had though it was only due to his lack of skills around newcomers and overlook it but it was starting to nag him.