Oof, now that smarted. Lily had to sit a moment to let her mind have some time to catch up with what had just happened. Her boat was rather ruined though but Lily figured some sort of repairing magic could deal with that. Or something. This was one sort of accident that Lily had never experienced before.

Lily watched as the man moved about, seeming to know precisely what to do. Oh, how impressive! He brought the sort of protagonists that she read about in her adventure novels to mind. Being sixteen and full of hormones, she was quite plainly impressed despite the fact that he hadn’t really done much yet. Be still her heart when he pushed up his sleeve!

The young woman definitely didn’t mind the notion of moving over to his boat. The problem however was that she was a naturally clumsy person and this was not helped by the sort of dress and shoes fashion saw her wearing. Not to mention the thin layer of water on the part of her boat that she would need to move over to more easily move onto his.

Even so, she wanted to impress him so she wanted to try anyway. Maybe she would get lucky. Grabbing his offered hand, even that wasn’t enough to prevent Lily from ending up dangling in the water with one hand on his boat with the other on his hand. How mortifying.