Then I'll practice more frequently. Billy exuded pure delight for a brief moment, and then they were off. They started spiraling upward the way they came, gliding through the water effortlessly and then breaking through, skimming the surface. Brief happy thoughts bubbled upward as they went.

They rose higher and higher, free as birds, then all too soon parted the curtain and returned to their bodies.

"...so that's what I felt," Billy finished, unfolding his limbs and looking at her with a rare sort of smile.