Hi, When I came across the below text recently, I wondered how Vlad learned to swim? His father? His grandfather? Loiosh? Kiera? Is learning to swim related to a happy memory or an unhappy memory? Vlad says "started splashing after him". If Vlad learned >from Loiosh, he might just know how to jhereg paddle? But then, could he keep up with Morrolan? Maybe a jhereg breaststroke? How did Morrolan know Vlad could swim? Bye. Linda G. The Book of Taltos, Taltos, Chapter 10, page 106 "It was a bit easier after that, though, and eventually I found myself in water, and Morrolan was next to me. The water was very cold. My teeth started chattering, and I saw that Morrolan's were, too, but I was too cold to be pleased about it. Loiosh angrily climbed onto my shoulder. The noise was still deafening, every inch of me was soaked, and my hands hurt like blazes from gripping the rope. I put my mouth next to Morrolan's ear and yelled, 'What now?' He gestured a direction with his head and we struck out for it. After having developed a symbiotic relationship with that rope, it was hard to let go of it, but I did and started splashing after him. Loiosh took wing and flew just over my head. The mist kicked up by the waterfall made it impossible to see more than a couple of feet ahead of me. The current was strong, though, and tended somehow to keep Morrolan and me together, so I never lost sight of him. I was too busy fighting the current and keeping track of Morrolan to be as scared as I ought to have been, but it wasn't actually all that long before my feet felt the bottom of the river, and then we were crawling up onto the bank, and then we collapsed, side by side."