Blue heard the splash as her mate joined her, but when she spun around to splash him, he wasn't there. Wait--wait--there. She spied familiar blue eyes staring at her, and she imagined he had to be walking on his knees, so far down in the water was he. But he hadn't come after her to dunk her or splash her silly, as their play had always been "before".
And it really didn't take Blue that long to figure out why. Damn it. So even this, too, had been tarnished by InGen.
Her good mood sank like lead, and Blue did the same beneath the water, so she wouldn't give into the temptation to burst into tears again. She jerked around in the water and kicked hard for the opposite shore, tearing bits of tree and plant roots out of the bank when she reached it. Sorrow gilded her anger; she tried to keep her frustrations hidden--difficult when one's mate watched one's every single movement.
But she tried--she finally appeared to tire of swimming in the deeper water and swam to the shallow end of the pool, fiddling with the shiny rocks there on the bottom.
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And it really didn't take Blue that long to figure out why. Damn it. So even this, too, had been tarnished by InGen.
Her good mood sank like lead, and Blue did the same beneath the water, so she wouldn't give into the temptation to burst into tears again. She jerked around in the water and kicked hard for the opposite shore, tearing bits of tree and plant roots out of the bank when she reached it. Sorrow gilded her anger; she tried to keep her frustrations hidden--difficult when one's mate watched one's every single movement.
But she tried--she finally appeared to tire of swimming in the deeper water and swam to the shallow end of the pool, fiddling with the shiny rocks there on the bottom.