Fire ants crackled over his body from the electricity coursing through the clear water. It was painful, but not debilitating. Twice carp of unnatural size and tremendous jaws approached him hungrily, but backed off as they detected the lingering traces of the royal family soap on his skin. Mines of various types buried under the lake bottom allowed him passage once they ascertained his ID from the coded signals of the circuits implanted under his skin.