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The Narrator As March turns to April, the final cool winds of winter give way to the breezy air of spring, and snow is replaced with rain. Yet there is no rain today, making it the first of two weeks without any sort of precipitation. It is a perfect day to enjoy the outdoors. Perhaps a visit to the hot springs is on your minds...
Unlike the lake, the water of the hot springs is always transparently clear, allowing you to see the very ground of the spring if you so desire. Something shiny at the very bottom of the hot springs captures your gaze. Squinting down at it, you realize that it is in fact just one of many such shiny objects littered around the ground. They are gold coins, this you can determine easily even without getting close. None of the coins are on the shore, all are submerged in the water.
Will you dive under to retrieve these coins? Or perhaps you will use summoning charm?
The weather was starting to get better by the day, which had prompted Maddie to head out to the grounds for a little walk. She'd been outside plenty of times throughout the winter, but it had just been for a dash to class and then back again. She hadn't really been outside just to enjoy the outdoors in quite a while. She found herself walking over by the hot springs, an area she hadn't explored at all in her three years at the school.
She peered into the water, admiring how she could see down to the very bottom of it. It was so pretty, causing her to take a seat cross-legged style at the edge of the spring. Thank Merlin the rain had stayed away today. She was starting to get as sick of it as she had been of the snow. She had just tried to get lost in thought about the weather, when something caught her eye. She squinted and then stood up.
"Whoa," she said to herself. Normally a simple coin wouldn't phase her, but these things had been popping up everywhere! She had to retrieve it! Not exactly being dressed for a dive, she withdrew her wand and pointed it toward the coin.
"Accio!" she called out, hoping to summon it toward her.