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]

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.

[newmodelblade]

You appear to be moreso than anyone not myself, Naeva. That must mean something?

[desirestruth]

Is it? I haven't known you all your life. There are surely plenty of things about you I don't know. The difference right now is only that you don't know them either.

[She sighs, and then nudges him so she can sit up this is getting cold and kind of uncomfortable!]

I can make a very educated guess about the man I know, but I don't really know all the context, do I? Only your memories would have them. I feel I'd do you a disservice, trying to tell you anything without that.