"Nah, just means you're really unlucky if you find yourself in a bind with one," she teased, sticking the tip of her tongue at him for a moment before pulling away to kneel at the water's edge.
She rinsed her hands gently, scrubbing the dirt from the road from her skin and wincing a few times for the tender scuffs along her fingertips from picking at the stones. "It's so cold," she mumbled in complaint, glaring at the beautiful, sparkling water beyond the bank.