Drifting below the waves, the sun caressed her ivory skin. She exhaled, allowing the bubbles to brush past her lips to quickly flow to the surface. The world above was so beautiful here. Maybe though, that's because it was seen through a distorted lens. The human eye sees things as they are but distorts them in their own way. Whether through feelings of nostalgia, anger, joy... Life is what man makes it. Funny how they watch life and all its events and realities but they are the ones that choose how bitter or how wonderful they are as they come. If she could stay down here, an alien in a realm of warm, oxygenless wonder not completely explored by man... she might be okay with that too. 

But then the sky wouldn't always be beautiful even under the interesting waves that redefined its splendor. Sometimes, it would be grey.

Sometimes lightning would strike the ocean, like the sky was angry that the ocean was so beautiful.

Sometimes the ocean would return its anger, lashing out with massive waves as though to touch the sky and return the favor of the pain it dealt but it would never return.

[color=7B68EE]"A...hahaha..."[/color]

The bubbles that escaped her lips as she laughed were muffled in the water. She closed her eyes as the last bubble escaped her lips and her lungs began to burn. Resigning to her fate reluctantly as an air-breather, the pale woman emerged from the ocean, gasping. She made her way to shore and to the Besaid temple back up on the hill. She had been lucky her katana hadn't dislodged herself in her dive into the ocean. Saina allowed the water to drip off of her even as she saw Urick at the temple and made her way to where he meditated near a tree. It was as though she still wished to be below the surface of the water and still look at the world through that distorted lens of the ocean's surface. And she did. She stopped in front of Urick as a cool breeze persuaded droplets of warm water to make their way down her body and out of her hair that plastered itself against her face, getting quite icy on their way back to the earth. The cloak that was attached at her side also swayed lightly as it began to dry out.

[color=7B68EE]"You took my advice." [/color]

It wasn't a question. She had spoken softly so as not to snap the shy man out of his trance but to alert him to her presence. 

[color=7B68EE]"Not many hear my words in these lands I've travelled, but you have... and for that, I'm grateful."[/color]

She turned to look at the horizon again, the sun having risen higher now and more people beginning to make their way from their beds and to the stadium.

[color=7B68EE]"It's funny isn't it... how the sky, and the sea are always at war with each other?"[/color]

Her expression was thoughtful, her hands clasped in front of her.

[color=7B68EE]"They're like vain sisters, always trying to prove themselves more beautiful than the other, lashing out when they don't get their way... Ahaha..."[/color]

She closed her vibrant blue eyes to laugh softly at the idea. Relaxing, she removed her cloak from where it was tied on her hip and began to wring it out, her sopping wet hair falling over her shoulder. She looked back at him, her bright eyes open once more and vibrantly glowing in the slight shade of the tree they were under.

[color=7B68EE]"I wonder which you find more beautiful?"[/color]