204 - Do you know how to swim?

"Ailadas, do you know how to swim?" He blinked at me and coughed, of course. "Ahem. Ahem." "In all seriousness, I need to know." He fussed with his books a bit and gave me an arch look under his bushy eyebrows. "Ahem. In my… ahem -- misspent youth -- it might be that I learned how to stay mostly on top of the water rather than under it." "Good. That means that three of the