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

[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!

[desirestruth]

[Yeah pin a wet yipper in the water this won't get stupid and lewd. Sure.]

Nnnghh---

[newmodelblade]

[What it's just two people with intense attraction to one another in shallow water on top of eachother with him leaning over her.]

...Say it.

[desirestruth]

...N-not yet.

[Are we still talking about winning? Are we talking about something else? Are we aware of this shift???]

[newmodelblade]

[Look, let's be real, this probably stopped being about winning or whatever they're doing a few comments ago. But he will stay leaned over her, with the pin and all.]

Naeva...

[desirestruth]

When you...remember.

[She won't meet his gaze now, which is difficult to arrange from this position but she does manage it.]

[newmodelblade]

...Naeva.

[He's reaching up to turn her chin, then.]

I'm working on it.

[desirestruth]

I know...

[Except you haven't used your tokens yet but shhhh.]

But until then...it's all a bit much coming from someone you've 'known' 9 days, isn't it?

[newmodelblade]

No... I can tell there's more there, in how you act.

[This conversation would be less awkward with him not pinning her but that's not stopping any time soon.]

[desirestruth]

Is it that obvious?

[Well now she's also embarrassed as well as flustered and pinned in cold water and man her back is just gonna be covered in wet sand.

This is ridiculous.]

[newmodelblade]

I get this feeling that you've always been an open book to me.

[He smiles a little at her.]

...But I won't press. That's fair, right?

[desirestruth]

...Nothing about this situation is fair.

[She does sigh a little, but manages a smile back.]

But it's not your fault. You're doing your best...how many tokens do you have?

[newmodelblade]

Three or four... I'm worried about spending them all at once, to find out what I will get. But if you're there, it cannot be too bad, right?

[desirestruth]

Eliza said something about you can spend two to watch them on your chain, instead of on the big screen...

[She got a little redder.] It's less at once, but I'll be there either way, if you ask me to.

[newmodelblade]

Well of course, Naeva, I absolutely want you to be there, no matter what.

[desirestruth]

...How do you say these things so easily?

[She's covering her face with her hands because she just went red as a beat. GET HER, LUCI. GET HER!]</small

[newmodelblade]

Because it's obvious. There's no way I could be this important to you if you weren't just as important to me.

[desirestruth]

That's...Well, I certainly hope it's the case. It's not like I'm qualified to tell you how you feel.