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Goldenboko
Not to mention dead bodies don't sink.
...what? Why would being dead affect whether you would float or sink? The laws of gravity don't suddenly rewrite themselves just because somebody is no longer living. Why do you think the bodies of people who drown are rarely recovered? They sink.
Also, VIII. By a long, LONG way.
Dead people don't sink, they float. You have heard of the "dead man's float", haven't you? A body can lie facedown in water, floating, for an incredible length of time. With living people, there is no real limit to how long they can stay afloat this way, bringing their head up to breathe, as long as they don't weaken too much from thirst or hunger. A dead body has the advantage of not having to come up for air. Of course, decomposition, fishies chomping on it, water composition, water temperature, and many other factors will keep the body from floating forever. It's hard to find a body of someone who has drowned because of course the body can't control where it is going and will drift out to sea, and will decompose enough to lose its natural bouency in short order, but a freshly dead body will certainly float. The lake that Cloud lowered Aeris into simply must not have been pure water, but a mixture of water and something else that lowered the density of the lake.