Sora certainly hoped that Riku would have an easy job...if that went wrong, it'd mean he was really doing something wrong. And with how Riku wanted to help Namine into the water here, it was likely he'd rather focus more of his attention on her, anyway.

It seemed like Xion was having a little trouble with her ears and floating, though. "You don't have to get it down perfect or anything. But it's still important to know, so that it makes the rest of swimming easier on you." He carefully paddled over to the pool's edge, and held onto it with both hands.

"Try and hang onto the edge like this, so you can just focus on using your legs!"