Camp Keystone: Jupiter Year » Places

         "I didn't expect anything else," Avery retorted with a smug grin, clearly pleased with himself as he took a few steps and jumped into the lake feet first, sinking quickly below the water. The cool lake water was a pleasant sensation after exposure to the awful summer heat on the surface. Even more pleasant was the fact that the lake was alive- well, not alive per say, but there were fish and plant life, none of the man-made monstrosities he'd encountered increasingly over recent years. No, it was practically humming with life, and for a person who could remember when there were more trees than cities, that was beautiful.

He stayed under for a while before his eyes snapped open and he began to swim up, up, and up until his head broke through the surface. He took a gasp of air, reddish-brown hair now in a wet mess, rivulets of water pouring down his face, one stopping just at the tip of his pointed nose, another trailing off his lips that were pulled into an impish grin.

"Come on, come on," He goaded Ryan, swimming slowly away from shore, careful not to irritate his still lightly aching stomach. "The water is wonderful."