[Need considers and probes the water with her pole. She supposes Frieda's worried about injury. It seems it generally takes a while for people to internalize how much rarer real risk is here.]

It's about four feet here. You'd make it, if that's what you're wondering. So. In the Cavern immersing was painful, in the Desert... disorienting, maybe? [she'd helped a test drive character who didn't app but had never gone under herself.] What's the River like here?