Resting a hip against the bumper of her jeep, Kairi watches the gray haze of morning tinge green as the sun peaks over the mountainous horizon. With a soft sigh she pulls on her day pack. The lot at the beginning of the trail is empty except for her Jeep. Closing her eyes for a minute she listens to the soft click of limb on limb as the light breeze ripples around her, the leaves whispering as they sway with the branches.
Shrugging her shoulders she feels the weight of the pack settle. With little more than water, lunch, a change of clothes, small towel, sweatshirt, and a flashlight. She nudges away from the Jeep, gently pushing past the trees overhanging the path, and starts ambling along. With every step she feels the dust cloud up around her boots noting that it's been a while since rain has passed through this area at all, the short scrub oaks offering hardly any shade as she makes her way along the trail. Reaching out a hand she lets the leaves slip over her fingers feeling them brush waxy and dry over her skin.
Long auburn hair teased away from her face and gliding down her back in a loose braid, sunglasses, perfectly obscuring her light green eyes, and long lashes. Her Lithe athletic form clothed in a khaki tank top, hiking shorts (the pockets bulging with a small first aid kit, and weatherproof matches), white anklets peeking out just over the top edge of her hiking boots. She moves with a feline grace covering the distance quickly.
Stopping at a high point on the trail she sits down her legs swinging lightly back and forth against the ledge to take in the tree covered valley below. Kairi's heels beating against the rock causing a racket of small rocks and dust to clatter down the face of the mountain trail. Turning her head slightly she traces the path with her eyes, watching it curve down away from her in a soft crescent and disappear into a small copse of trees. With her mouth set in a thin line of concentration she can almost hear the crash of a small waterfall down below.
Leaning back on her hands and taking a deep breath she feels the sun glide over her skin. The light breeze making goose bumps rise from the sweat lingering there. Gingerly she finally retreats from the ledge overlooking the valley and rubs her hands together. The light orange almost blush dust, clouds, and falls from them. Reaching back she brushes stray pebbles and dust from her butt and starts walking again.
Finally reaching the small copse and the cool shade it has to offer, Kairi continues following the trail until it leads her to the small Waterfall. She watches as the water tangles with the pool at its base, droplets of water glimmering in the sparse sunlight to fall back in ripples along the surface of the dark pool. Walking to a large flat boulder near the pool she takes off her pack and pulls out a bottle of water drinking down three quarters of it before pausing to look around to see if she's totally alone.
With a soft smile curling her petal lips she takes off her sunglasses, pouring the rest of the bottled water over her hands washing them, then she slowly works her hair free from the thick loose braid. Her fingers combing through it feeling her locks fall in in soft curls around her oval face, her braid having made it springy compared to her usual straight locks.
Listening to hear if there is anyone nearby she starts shrugging out of her clothes. Sitting on the edge of the boulder she first takes off her shoes and socks tucking them inside. Then standing on the moss covered edge of the pool she steps out of her shorts tossing them on the boulder, followed by her panties, tank top, and Bra. Standing there naked she slowly enters the pool, getting used to the chill.
Feeling the goose-bumps rise up the length of her body she shivers and lifts her hands up over her head as she slowly crouches deeper into the water. With a soft spring she dives in skimming just below the surface. The lily white of her skin a sharp contrast to the dark shade of the trees around her, her body striped with the few rays of light that filter through the thick limbs as she swims.
Surfacing just before she gets to the fall she takes a deep breath and dives back under, feet fluttering wildly pushing her down beneath the force of the falling water. When her hands touch the algae covered rock bottom she spins quickly and pushes off with her feet, deftly surfacing up under the fall. Her hands blindly searching along the rock face, for the ledge she knows is there.
With fingers folding over the wet gritty edge, she pulls up turning during the pull so she can sit on the small ledge, her butt resting precariously, wiggling back until her shoulder blades are pressed into the rock bare feet swinging back and forth to kick at the falling water. Feeling it cascade and pull at them attempting to draw her back out into the fall. The cool water coating her skin in small droplets as it falls towards the pool.
Closing her eyes she folds her arms and rests her head back against the rock wall. Kairi's body shivers tearing through her with the cool humid air behind the fall. Her skin coated in a glaze of water from the fall. Taking another deep breath she pushes her heels into the rock and slips down under the water again letting it crash over her, pushing till her toes rest on the bottom. Feeling a few bubbles leak from her nose she settles down and springs off the bottom legs rocking together in a quick undulation shooting out of the water waist high.
In the few seconds it takes for the water to clear from her ears she hears a muffled cat call just before she slips back under the surface of the pool. Kairi's face flushing with the realization that she's not alone in this secluded place naked, shaking her head in frustration under the water she slowly surfaces and lets just her head bob to the surface taking a breath of air as she looks towards the shore seeing a dark figure leaning casually against the boulder near her clothes.
