Here lake lake lake...

Water water water water water...

Tu knew it was here somewhere. He could practically smell it. Pattering along across the grass, he looked to his left and right before walking forward again with a small pout. He'd heard that somewhere on this campus was a lake, which would be a perfect place for him to swim and play. But in order to do that, he'd have to find it first and so far, his natural instincts had just led him in circles.

"That tree looks familiar..." he mumbled to himself, pausing in front of a big oak tree and glaring at it, as if it were the cause of his bad sense of direction. Which it was, in Tu's opinion, "You tell me where the lake is right now!" There was a moment of silence between boy and tree. Needless to say, the boy gave in first.

"I'll come back for you. And your little leaves too." With that, Tu turned on his heel and glared over his shoulder, walking forward in a small huff....

...and promptly walking straight into the lake only a few feet away, tripping over his now wet shoes and falling in with a splash. Tu sputtered as his baggy clothes became soaked, managing to get on his feet. With an indignant look and his head sticking out of the water, he gave a sigh.

"Well... at least I found the lake."

He turned around in the water, slowly due to his waterlogged clothes, and blinked curiously at the other person in the lake with him. He brightened slightly and gave a sheepish smile, waving his arms around enthusiastically as he talked.

"Ah! Don't worry about me, I'm alright, but I think that evil tree pushed me in. I knew I shouldn't have taken my eyes off it for even a second. I'll have to plot revenge later, it was a mean thing for a tree to do. But I managed to find the lake that I'd been looking for, so it's fine! I wish that I had the time to get out of my clothes though, they're all wet now," Tu mused, dropping his arms back in the water before giving Raye a bright smile, "I can just hang them out to dry though, right?"

"That's a good idea. If the tree misbehaves again, I'll tell her," Tu said with a confirming nod, casting the tree in question a warning glare, "Did you hear that? You better behave next time!" As expected, there wasn't much of a response. Tu figured that the silence meant the tree was taking him seriously, which was a good thing. He really didn't want to have to tell on it and get it in trouble.

"Oh, my name is Turais Meissa, but you can just call me Tu!" he chirped cheerfully, shifting his position and moving to float comfortable on his back. He folded his arms behind his head and gave another bright smile, "Do you like to swim too? I love to swim and Ziz and Aziza love it too. I bet they can't wait to swim around this lake, it's soooo big!" To make a point, he began splashing around in circles, dog-paddling.

Tu continued to swim in slowly growing circles, his form of swimming changing from the very splashy dog-paddling to a more calm breaststroke. This way, he would be able to continue speaking to Raye and still be able to swim around, he reasoned.

"Ziz and Aziza are my friends. They don't come out all that often though, because they don't want me to wear myself out. But I think that's okay, I can just take a quick nap and eat lots and I'll be re-energized, right? Plus, I'm working hard everyday to increase the amount of energy I have so they can stay longer, but I can't find out how much longer they can stay when they won't come out. You see?"

It didn't occur to Tu that his babblings probably wouldn't make sense to random strangers. To him, all his words made perfect sense. If they made perfect sense to him, they should make perfect sense to everyone else. Right?

Tu paused in his swimmings to look at Raye, head tilted as he gave her a surprised look, as if unable to believe that she didn't understand his words. Well... not everyone understood everything right away, he supposed. Some people needed better explanations because they just didn't get it the first time. His mother had told him once before to make sure to say things again if people didn't get it the first time because he tended to 'babble' a lot. Which Tu insisted that he didn't.

"Ziz and Aziza, they're special. They need my body's energy to exist and when I get tired, they have to go away. Mom said to call them 'summons', but I think that word's really cold. I like to call them my friends because that's what they are to me, y'see?" he said as he spread out his arms and legs, flailing a bit in the water for fun.

There, that explanation had been a lot clearer. At least, Tu thought it had been. In any case, if it hadn't been clear, Tu could just keep trying again.