BOND-Y BEACH

[grimpa]

Who: Eliza, Fang and interested parties
When: Day 21, morning
Where: The beach

[Remember on Day 12 when we got back actually-pretty beaches and actually-safe shallows? WELL. Today there's a mass message from one of your resident cute Thymes on ChainChat!]

Eliza: hi hi hi!
Eliza: Do you know how to swim? 🏊🌊
Eliza: Do you want to learn how?? Knowing how to swim is great for fun and saftey 🐠
Eliza: Meet us on the beach for lessons today 🏖️

[If you decide to follow up on that and head in that direction, or are just out on the beach for other reasons, you'll find Eliza (in a cute two-piece) and Fang (in boring black board shorts, but check those hella scars) hanging out along the shoreline, a bottle or two of sunscreen and Thyme-colored towels at their feet! If you pass close enough you may be greeted by a friendly wave or a business-like nod.]

Did you want to participate in our swimming lessons?

Comments

[newmodelblade]

Well, be careful out there!

[...Does the jackal want pets? He can give her pets if she wants.]

[desirestruth]

[She does want pets. She's even come over to tap at his hands with her paws!

...she's kind of wondering how much she can get away with here.]

[newmodelblade]

[Well for the time being she's just gonna get a whole bunch of petting like she's a very exotic dog.]

Having fun out here?

[desirestruth]

[HAPPY WHINED NOISE yaaayyyy pets for yippers.]

Mhmm...

[...wait.]

[newmodelblade]

...Pardon?

[He's squinting now. You dun goofed it, doggo.]

[desirestruth]

Yip?

[YOU CAN'T JUST SAY YIP, NAEVA.]

[newmodelblade]

You just literally said "yip" that time!

[desirestruth]

Nnnno?

[NAEVA.]

[newmodelblade]

[That's it, he's absolutely sitting up, grabbing the jackal and yeeting it into the goddamn water. Don't worry! It'll all be over soon! NO TEARS ONLY DREAMS]

[desirestruth]

[Well, there was a shriek.

And then naeva just emerged from the water looking like a fucking j-horror monster. Yeah she did not appreciate being yeeted, here.]

Was that necessary?!

[newmodelblade]

[Give him a minute he's too busy laughing that that worked so well.]

[desirestruth]

[She's marching up to him.

Straight up lifting him over her head.

And yeeting him into the water.]

[newmodelblade]

What the--

[And out he goes! Pchoo!!]

[Thankfully he can swim already but he'll pop back up in a second.]

Those were fifty spark sunglasses, Naeva.

[desirestruth]

I'll buy you new ones.

[She refuses to be shamed for this.]

You're the one who decided flinging things is how we solve problems.

[newmodelblade]

Oh you're definitely buying me new ones.

[Look, she might have super strength where he just has nebulous bullshit comicbook-esque "near-peak human physicality" or whatever, but he is in great shape, she is small, and he has no problem walking back out of the ocean, grabbing her up by the shoulder and waist like a tiny spooky surfboard, and just charging back into the ocean with her.]

[desirestruth]

Wh--Lucien!

[You go sleep or sulk or whatever it is you were doing for four days and this is what she has to deal with on your return? Why are you like this.!]

[newmodelblade]

I win, Naeva!

[HOW IS THIS EVEN A CONTEST?! WHAT ARE THE METRICS YOU WIN BY? I DON'T THINK THIS IS A REAL COMPETITION]

[desirestruth]

Win what!?

[She's scrabbling to try and get free but strength is no good when you're scruffed.]

[newmodelblade]

Say I win!

[This is only going to get more dumb, if she keeps fighting him on this, and given he's basically splashing around the shallows with her trying to wriggle out of his grasp it's already dumb.]

[desirestruth]

Absolutely not.

[Well, she's still wriggling. Because now she's attempting the most dreaded counterattack: tickles.

We're all adults out here, y'all. Adults out in public.]

[newmodelblade]

[See, this should be taken as a sign, because when she said no, that was his immediate plan too, to go for tickles while still keeping one arm around her waist. This is absolutely ridiculous!]

Say it!

[desirestruth]

N-never!

[She'd take that as a good sign, that even as an amnesiac he's like this, but right now she's shrieking and wriggling and making a complete idiot of herself where people can, y'know, see them.]

[newmodelblade]

[The only way this could get dumber is he lost his balance and fell into the water with both of them in a pile, so guess what's about to happen here!]

Do it!

[desirestruth]

Make me!

[Yeah that came with an extra hard wriggle. Sploosh.]

[newmodelblade]

[NAEVA HE WILL ABSOLUTELY GO FOR THE PIN HERE!]

Fine!