[Mexico] Avventura (Nimue/Saga)

They did not make it that late last night, but it had been fantastic, she loved this room, she loved the view and the sound of the ocean. She loved him and well this place was everything she wanted for her holiday. But that also meant she felt wellrested, there were no nightmares as she managed to grab a hold of Giovanni albeit mentally, in her dreams. No fear for her father, nothing, it was just that peaceful this way. She woke up early and that was okay, first nuzzling some more before she would get up because they were going to go on a survival or hiking course. She was glad she sort of packed for that as well, or at least, be able to wear something else than a summer dress. She had braided her long green hair all by herself in boxing braids, which meant they wouldn't tangle and mess up. It felt like fitting for a holiday, but she would miss her jumpy and funny hair if she would do this every day. Besides it was a mess with how long it could take and her arms were getting tired, even after having trained and worked so long on being able to fight, braiding was like a top sport.

They would go for breakfast and she would swap her easy fitting clothes that she quickly put up for shorts that reached above her knee and tank top with a loose fitting t-shirt over it. You never knew what would happen. It didn't take long to change, it took a bit to find the right shirt though and finally, she would have to find her hiking shoes, she was sure she packed them for if they would go explore a piece of the city of one of the islands. She found them finally in a corner of her suitcase and she was almost done, "Hm?" She said while tying her shoe laces and looking up when Giovanni showed up by her side to ask if she needed help. She held up her hand so he could pull her up and she could stand up and look at herself. "Nope no, wait yes, I need to get sun lotion." He could do her shoulders and back of her neck, so she wasn't like walking around with white stripes on there. She did not know anything else. She let him kiss her and hug her and she would lean against him. "I think I am, quite excited actually?" She liked when he called her something sweet in Italian, though cara stayed her favourite word. "Are you?" She felt like she was too active, to hyper enthusiastic but it was not bothering him, at least he said so yesterday. "We should hurry, I don't want to be late to the taxi." As they booked this tour they were getting a guide and the guide would pick them up in front of their hotel and bring them to the course where they would hike and check out other stuff, it would be fun.

She was wondering if he was as excited like her to go on this trip through the jungle or not because he dodged the question but she nuzzled his nose with hers, giving him an eskimo kiss before quickly kissing him and moving around to get her small backpack and be ready to go. With her sunglasses in her hair and so on, she would wait for Giovanni to be ready as well, making sure they would bring the sunblock with them before leaving their room and going on their short walk to the front of the hotel where someone was waiting for the mister and misses Trapani. She eyed him again because it sure must be his doing! She wasn't as bad about it as back in December so she simply smiled and would be ready to go. Climbing in the back of the cab, while their tour guide would be in the front, she could put her head onto Giovanni's shoulder and listen to the woman explain what would happen. They were going on a trip that was made by her and then they would have lunch before going to see the most important temples and so on in the surrounding area, which sounded like a fun thing to do.

She was also glad that the trip would still be just the two of them, so they could hold hands, take breaks and so on, it was perfect. She looked outside, now more awake as they were travelling out of the compound to get past the security. Such a luxury that she wasn't used to. She turned to look at Giovanni and just smile at him before they arrived at what looked like a simple house made of simple stones and thatched roof, interesting, she had not seen that for a while because of her stay in Japan. The house was really small and there was an open spot with benches and tables opposite the small houses with the same style of the roof and something that smelled really nice. Their tour guide explained they would eat real Mayan food here later and that they should now focus on the trip first. She gave Giovanni a satellite phone so they could contact each other but in general Giovanni and Nim would just walk through a track made by the organisation, she would be there at some points, using faster travel routs to help them with instructions and so on. They would be able to track the duo with the satellite phone tracker and just to make sure they could call each other. Her number was on the back of the phone. Nimue liked it and after taking a sip of her drink she was ready to leave, the trail started easy, with a few loose stones in the mud tracks and a little upwards they would walk to the jungle. "It is so pretty here." She could not help but whisper as they walked towards the edge of the jungle, with one look back she noticed they got a little higher then where they started, able to look back upon the house before disappearing into the jungle. She took Giovanni's hand again and smiled at him, "I like that we are doing this together." Just them and the fast moving world of Mexico's jungle?

She waited patiently for Giovanni to take some pictures, looking around herself at the forest and checking out the trees. This was so different from what she was used to. She had never been to this continent so it was interesting. Her biology interest perked up a little and she was just touching the bark of the tree and looking around and listening to the sound. She was glad that it wasn't just a beach vacation but that they were doing this and she smiled at Giovanni when he was done. "It is very pretty yea, I never really got further in my study on biology then Japan but this is so different, even so different from South Africa. Hm, all I need to visit is Europe still." She looked at him shortly with a tease and continued to hold on to her backpack and travel further within the jungle. The light fell through the green leaves and made a interesting display on the ground. She heard birds and some sounds she could not place until she realized that she had heard it before, slightly different and yet the same. "I think that's a frog!" She said surprised, stopping in her track when they were a little further and looked around, where could it be.

She watched and found the frog, which was black and blue and asked Giovanni to snap a picture of it. "Must be poisonous, hence the colours, how cool we saw it!" God she really liked this and she blushed a little when he said he loved it after he took her hand again. "Me too." She would walk on had he not stopped her with the following words and she gave his hand a soft squeeze. "Oh so Italian surnames are easier." She looked fake offended and she squeezed his hand again, "It's fine, the last time I was just embarrassed cuz I-I mean we were dating so shortly, now we are almost dating for a year, still a bit awkward but I am okay." They had been considered married and so on by more people, she had to explain such things to PSC before, considering the whole fiasco with the kidnapping and all, but it was fine, it was okay. She kissed him on the cheek, "You better be a good husband to me today."

So they would walk on, discover more of the jungle and have to climb a bit, make steady steps and she could feel it in her calves. She wasn't used to walking like this and she was okay with it. They reached an clearing in the jungle with a little hut above a big gap in the ground, there was another hut that seemed to have stalled towels and little lockers and there they found their tourguide, what was her name again? Veronica? Something like that. The tour guide explained that this was a cenote where they could swim for a bit if they wanted, depending on their decision the girl would continue to wait a little further away for something else and they could take their time. Nimue turned to Giovanni, "Do you want to swim?"

"I am sure I will." She said, not teasing but yet it sounded like that. She was sure he would one day bring her to Italy and show her around. God may know when but she was sure it would happen and that was fine with her. She would just walk on with him on this little walk or hike depending on what you wanted to call it. It had some steep moments and moments they had to take their time to hop off the track to get safely down to the next part of the road or had to climb up. A jungle wasn't build for them that was for sure. When she heard a strange and yet not so new sound, she found the frog and she smiled happily at Giovanni when he added that he was ahead of her and had been taking pictures. "Glad you do, now I feel a little less silly." That she could be so hyped about something like that she was actually glad he did and she would walk on with him and smile and hold his hands and kiss on his cheek as this was just an amazing day and it felt like it still just started... though it also felt very tiring and late already, what a contrast, she couldn't help but giggle a bit with the look on his face.

"I already do." She said, brushing one of the braids over her shoulder as she made a step slowly down a set of roots that were now forming like a pair of stairs. She looked up at him and smiled more, "Thank you again." Eventually they would bump into Veronica who suggested that they could take a dive in the underground cave. So she would drop her belongings in one of the lockers and would just make sure Giovanni was coming along. She had no idea how hot it felt already outside, the jungle was holding the heat for sure, but here underneath the surface and in the darkness of the cave it felt rather cool. They had to climb down using a ladder and could stand on a little floating island that was probably made by the organisation Veronica was from. Nimue dipped her toes in the water before deciding she would swim indeed, she liked it more. "It's such clear water, amazing, I thought I saw a fish!" It might be but the shadow in the water was long gone when she entered, "Ah so cool, I didn't notice how hot it was up there." She would splash Giovanni a bit, like she did yesterday and laugh and try to swim away like some sort of water-tag game, she couldn't help but giggle more.

Where yesterday she had been afraid of the water, today it felt like no worries were necessary. Yesterday it did not hurt her skin and was salt water, this must be fresh water and it was so pretty here. They did install some little lanters in the cave so they could still see but it was like an eternal twilight which was a fun thing to see and enjoy. She splashed towards Giovanni, tried to swim away but in general remained close by to tease and just have fun. She would not want him to not catch her, i you get her drift, it was much more fun this way. It was so strange that she could relax so easily even if she was just herself still, yet another country made it so much easier. Nothing to worry about, no zombies, no students fighting, no Shinagawa. Of course all those things did happen and it wasn't like Nimue forgot, it was just not on the forefront of her memory. She was fearing it, that she was forgetting and not being a decent human being but she did not want to think that way, that was rude, right?

She actually felt like the water cooled her off and that she would drop away from overthinking and keep overthinking and yet worrying and not. It was confusing and if she continued this way, she might get a headache. But there was Giovanni, like a knight in shining armour to distract her and she was doing okay with that. She loved being here, it was probably why the PSC agreed, they couldn't afford for her to be gone for three months again and yet she wondered how she survived that. At least she had been in the hospital working on M.A.R.I.N.E. so she did something useful?

There wasn't much time to be concerned about everything that happened last year and she was actually quite certain that has been Giovanni's goal the whole time and she tried to run away and swim away from him while they were in this underground lake and she couldn't stop laughing and especially when he caught her. "Nooo" she laughed when he pulled her ankle towards him and she first tried to swim away still by using her arms but she let him pull towards him and she smiled as he held her and she leaned on his shoulders. She blushed bright red with what he said next and yet the sweet little smile stayed on her face, she liked when he said such romantic things, she was easily swayed by that and she sighed and couldn't stop smiling like an idiot as he looked her and she let him kiss her and wrap her arms around him. There were no words for her to express how she felt, kisses were making it a lot easier, she was so happy right now that even for a second her brain thought she could stay in this lake forever, obviously, when thinking rationally that was not an option.

She would nod and agree to get out of this and she had to get her ass going to swim to the little floating island and push herself on there, she was the fist to climb up the ladder and would try to find the towels, oh... it seemed to have rained while they were down there, but the weather had looked so perfect, how interesting. She would wrap herself in a towel and would look around a bit before drying herself off better, luckily her braids kept most of the water away so there was no issue with that and she got dressed back in her upper clothes and shoes before looking over her shoulder to Giovanni and smiling again. "I loved that, it was amazing yea." She smiled and touched his arm softly when she was done and would move away from the patio and look for the path they had to go. Veronica had gone that way, so she should see for a sign. "Are you ready to move again?" She would only if Giovanni confirmed and would follow the new path, a little bit of a steep climb but it was fine, the swimming had given her new energy and after about fifteen minutes walking or more like climbing they found Veronica and she was sitting very casually on the edge of a cliff and looked up, something about good they were here and it was time for the zipline... what!

She would take his hand again as they followed the new path to walk on through the jungle, it was so interesting to do this. She actually really liked it, though at first, she had a minor fright about the idea that they might bump into snakes, she had not seen a snake since she left South Africa and to be honest, she did not mind that. This path showed a little more difficulty then their trip towards the underground lake but it was fun, it was going well together and she looked back when they finished their little climb and put her hands on her hips, "That means muscle pain tomorrow." She said with a little laugh before going on and just holding Giovanni's hand again. The path was now normal and she could walk close to him and just smile, she couldn't stop thinking about how great this was. After about a quarter of an hour they finally reached Veronica again. The girl looked so casual there and Nimue felt her heart jump a little when she casually explained the zipline. She walked closer to the edge and watched the lake underneath them, it wasn't that big to travel around but it was definitely shorter to use the zipline. Veronica casually looked at Giovanni, "I said Zipline, you go from here across the lake over there." She waved at the people on the other side of the lake and Nimue looked at Giovanni. She thought he looked a little pale, maybe he did not like the idea. "If you don't want to, you can also get a guide to go around the lake." Veronica said with a shrug, "No harm in that, it just takes a little longer." Though not that much longer she explained later because normally you need to get the robes and harness around you to go on the zipline and that could take a bit.

Nimue herself was hesitant, she did not like the idea that it was over a lake but it would be cool to explore this, she had done a zipline before in South Africa but that was above lower ground and more of a childish thing and not really a sort of survival in the jungle. She turned her attention to Giovanni, "What do you want?" She asked him in Japanese because it would maybe make him feel a little more secure that he could only tell her what he felt.