Ian was less sure about that one; all sorts of creatures lived in lakes. And of course all sorts of creatures lived in the ocean too, but they didn't live close to the shore, except for the small ones usually. He didn't mind the small ones. But go out into the deeper water and there were things like sharks, and manta rays, and even whales. Although the whales weren't going to hurt you of course. But the big creatures didn't come into the shallow areas, that was the point really.
But lakes all the creatures that lived in them were right in that one spot, and what if the lake was really deep? What if it was deep enough for some giant animal to be living at the very bottom of it? It was a magic town, wasn't it? So maybe there was some sort of giant magical animal in the water.
The thought was not a comforting one and Ian fidgeted again, missing his mom's reassurance that they would go see a proper beach sometime in the summer because in his mind he was already thinking about what creatures lurked in the darkness of the stagnant lake waters.
"What?" Ian was still trying to come to terms with the idea of creatures under the waters when Barley pointed out an entirely different problem; creatures in the forest.
And just looked at his brother, barley wanted to find a dragon and that was not surprising by any means whatsoever, but what exactly did Barley think they were going to do If they did find a dragon? Dragons were very big, they probably didn't like to be found, and Ian didn't want to know what happened if you disturbed one.
Unicorns were probably okay, they did have those long horns but they were supposed to be nice, weren't they? They were still wild animals though. He was thinking about all of this while he was sitting there; back home they had lived more or less in a suburban setting and aside from things like raccoons or sometimes even a fox roaming around the area, squirrels another rodents, maybe even the rare opossum? Ian was perfectly fine with leaving wildlife to the zoos they sometimes visited and he could watch them from behind the safety of the enclosure walls, or out in the wild where they were supposed to be, far away from his house.
The idea of having a magical forest so close with magical creatures in it was suddenly unsettling.
"Why do you want to find a dragon? Dragons are big," Ian tried to reason with his brother.