[Backup] Water and Earth, Prologue, scene 2 -- A Warning

[JMR20190312: Backing up Water and Earth.
Working draft: https://joelrees-novels.blogspot.com/2018/05/we-0-02-warning.html

The novel: https://joelrees-novels.blogspot.com/2018/05/we-title-toc.html 
Originally written between November 2017 and January 2018, first published in my blog beginning May 2018.

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When we happen again to be walking these mountain paths a few mornings later above a certain lake, we notice the young woman swimming below us.

She dives, then returns to the surface, using her momentum to lift her upper body out of the water, kicking with her legs into a full pirouette, then arching back underwater in apparent imitation of a dolphin playing.

(There are indeed dolphin-like mammals in the seas of this world.)

And we see the young man in the paths near us, running again. He slows to a stop above us, apparently observing the young woman, then abruptly descends off the path in front of us, his face showing an expression of concern. At the shore of the lake, he calls out when the young woman comes to the surface. She waves in reply, and he repeats his warning. Now she swims toward him to ask questions, and he points off to the other end of the lake, and gives some explanation. With some reluctance she nods assent and swims toward that end to continue her exercises, and the young man, having observed her retreat, continues his course in the mists above the lake.

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