Continue the Story 48

[akrous]

Nozaki Umetarou is a talented manga artist, but he has trouble creating new characters and often takes inspiration from people-watching. Luckily, we have lots of colorful personalities right here at Colors! Here comes somebody right now--!

"The water is alive. Once you dive in, it will immediately bare its fangs and attack. But there's nothing to fear. Don't resist the water. ...Though there was one time I had a scary dream where the water was actually alive, and said to me..."

Instructions:
Each week, a new character will come forth with a story to inspire Nozaki-kun, and your job is to continue where the previous person left off, word by word!

Rules:
1) Comment with one word to continue the story.
2) For your word, you will receive two cards starting with the same letter as the word you submitted.
3) There is no limit to the number of times you can comment, but there must be at least three comments in between each of yours.

This round will close on Wednesday, June 1 is closed.