Diving would make this faster, but conversation keeps her near the surface - she can't hear Katherine if she can't see her, after all, and she can't answer if Katherine can't hear her - but for some dips and rolls that speed her along. "I'm better that way."
She has a life outside of it, though, and she doesn't think she'd leave that entirely behind if she had the choice, if the choice were divorced from things like 'getting the hell out of Baedal' or 'fighting a war on New York'. She doesn't need things like houses, clothes, cellos; she could dive deep and never come up if she wanted to, be the river-child that Ælfræd had wanted her great-grandfather to be, but she likes those things she doesn't need any more. She's still invested in them, she still knows them better.
Ilde doesn't think of herself as the type to want everything, to have her cake and eat it too, but she is. If she can't have everything just the way she wants it, it's just not good enough.
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She has a life outside of it, though, and she doesn't think she'd leave that entirely behind if she had the choice, if the choice were divorced from things like 'getting the hell out of Baedal' or 'fighting a war on New York'. She doesn't need things like houses, clothes, cellos; she could dive deep and never come up if she wanted to, be the river-child that Ælfræd had wanted her great-grandfather to be, but she likes those things she doesn't need any more. She's still invested in them, she still knows them better.
Ilde doesn't think of herself as the type to want everything, to have her cake and eat it too, but she is. If she can't have everything just the way she wants it, it's just not good enough.