"Hell no," Sahed said it once and he'll say it again. He's not interested in splashing around the lake with the other circus members. If that's what they wanted to do all day, good for them. But Sahed had better things to do.

And besides, nobody cared enough to drag him there by force... You're standing behind him, aren't you?

Sahed didn't understand why you were so insistent on him going. Don't you have anyone else to go with? Surely the others weren't blind enough to pass up the opportunity to take you out with them, especially when you'd all be wearing swimsuits... He ended that train of thought right there before his face turned red.

"It's still no. Find someone else."