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Sand n' Stuff

If Pasha heard the word 'boobs' one more time, she worried she might actually die from embarrassment. A few stray petals caught in the tiny breeze that seemed to pick up for a moment, and tumbled to float in the water nearby. Suddenly self conscious of her bathing suit all over again, Melisande tried her best to get out a response. "I'm...glad you like the drink, Tariel." She tugged up a bit on the top of her swimsuit with her free hand, but that simply left the curve of her waist exposed. Still blushing, Melisande dropped her hand tried to quit fidgeting with it.

Luckily, she was so distracted by Tari that she missed everything else Laz said...except for his question. "Yes! Or Meli, if you'd like." She dipped another curtsy to Lazarus and dropped her eyes, giving the other Sigel a bit of distance. That was something Rivener had taught her. When someone stared at her like that, with no smile, it probably meant they wanted left alone.

Pasha took a moment to gather her courage, and found her smile again. It was easier, with so much attention around her...it gave her strength, like cereal did in commercials! She listened to Zavier's speech with the same pink in her cheeks, but nodded. He seemed to know what he was talking about! Even if he didn't, he sounded smart and kind anyway, and her worries were driven away by his voice. She peeked out at the tall buildings he motioned to. "You live there? Maybe..." She tucked the bit of hair that was too short to make it into her pony tail back behind her ear, and gave him a hopeful, shy smile. "Maybe we could come back here, someday?"

She'd forgotten about his question, though, too caught up in asking one of her own. "Oh, and fun? Yes!" Melisande nodded, and twisted a bit...motioning a bit (but not pointing) towards the beach bar shade. "I met new Raevans....and they had drinks...and there are sign up papers for games." Melisande leaned forward gracefully and took another little sip of the drink in Zavier's hand without actually taking the glass. When she straightened again, she smiled around at their small group.

"I could sign us up, if you'd like...?"

((Beach Buffet Bar))

Brows furrowed as Roux remained floating a few paces away from the beach bar buffet... he didn't want to be surrounded by all of those people, particularily the ones he didn't know but...

Roux brought the hand not holding his parasol up to press fingertips against his own chest, brows furrowing darkly. What was this strange feeling in his chest... it was heavy, a little like sadness but something else. He didn't want to be near people but he did. The way they all talked to each other but not him, they all just stared at him. Not that he enjoyed talking all that much, or strangers, and he certainly didn't mind others looking at him but he still...

He really didn't like this feeling, especially since he had no name for it yet.

(( Sand n Stuff ))

Watching the water churn and break over the sand, Alex had fairly zoned out while her friends chatted amongst themselves. Give her head a weary shake - the water was mesmorizing, making her tired - she stood and brushed her sarong off, glancing to Chloe, Isi, Rai and a male whose name she hadn't caught. She picked up her sun glasses and called quietly to her Gwee, who came quickly and without complaint to her shoulder. The woman didn't want to interrupt, but it was obvious that she was going to go for a walk.

Alex made her way along the warm sand, giving a group of chattering Raevans a wide berth (she only recognized one of the males, although the other looked vaguely familiar). She wasn't quite ready to brave the Bar just yet, although she'd find herself there in time for a drink. As it were, she was content to stroll over the warm beach, watching the ocean lap at the sand.

((Sand N' Stuff))

Chloe let Isi lean against her, leaning back against him as well, looking down at the sand as this new person called her 'pretty.' "A-Ah.. I'm s-sorry, did I not introduce myself? I'm Chloe Star... P-Pleased to meet you."

She held out her hand shyly to shake. "Th-There's going to be events, y-yes. Ah.. I th-think a pie eating contest and... paint ball and l-limbo.. and w-when it gets dark story telling, too." She gave a small thoughtful sound. "I s-should go sign up for th-those before I forget." She glanced over Damien's shoulder towards the Beach Bar Buffet, a cool drink might be nice and... she definatly saw Roux over there.

Location: Beach Bar Buffet

Tango's incessant nudging was bad enough with the pain on her back, but now there was another fretting over her, even aside from Kale. What the hell had actually just happened? Had his hand... really passed through her shoulder? Through it, like it wasn't even really there? Wasn't tangible? She mustered a hushed, though frantic tone to make Tango stop what he thought was being helpful, and only then did she turn to the male who moved away from the bar just to try to help her up.

Ani quickly shook her head and waved her free hand, attempting to reject the offer to be helped up as kindly as possible given the situation. What the hell did she just do to her back? It stung, it burned, and she could feel... wetness on the back... she only hoped that wetness was from Tango's nose and his unhelpful nudges. Very slowly she did manager to raise herself back to a stand, hunched forward slightly in an attempt to not make her scratched up back hurt any more then it already was. The chairs, the damn chairs, she had scraped her back along them during the fall.

Nice.

"I'm-I'm okay..." she told the stranger, still keeping fairly hushed. No doubt she had already raised hellish confusion and she didn't want to do any more to gain unwanted attention. Tango whined at her side, his ears back. Reaching a hand behind her she wiped at her back and brought it back out for her to see.

Oh yeh.

She was bleeding.

Not badly, but it was quite a bit of blood, which meant she had probably gotten numerous scratches all over her back. Lovely!

Glancing at Kale she winced. That was possible? He was... a ghost? If so, he just singlehandedly made all paranormal study go down the tubes in that one instant, as far as she was concerned. But why hadn't Tango... didn't animals react very strongly to the supernatural? In a bad way? Ani shook her head, trying to dismiss the thought as well as Kale's constant spewing of apologies. He obviously hadn't meant it, and how the hell was being a ghost his fault? Whatever, he wasn't dangerous... it was she that freaked out and she that ended up hurting herself, he didn't have a hand in that aside from being the catalyst and that was nothing to blame him for.

Sigh, she scooted herself gently over to the bar and laughed weakly at Mouse, leaning over the side of it awkwardly, "D-.. do you have any bandages and some hydrogen-peroxide?" she hoped that was the right thing, she hadn't actually had to clean any wounds in a good long while, and much less with anything more then good old water. Leaning forward she rested her head between her arms against the bar, turning slightly to see who she was next to for a moment. And then she double taked.

"Josh?"

(( Beach Bar Buffet ))

Mouse perked up at Ani's question when she neared the bar counter. One must have wondered why she didn't take notice of the commotion before; being distracted with filling the buffet and being so close to one of the music speakers must have enabled her to effectively tune out anything that wasn't addressing her directly. "Oh, yeah. Just a second." she said, before disappearing beneath the counter.

After rummaging under the table for a few nervous seconds, she re-emerged with an emergency first aid kit. There was always the chance that someone was going to get themselves hurt, and so the right precautions had been taken to make sure they were prepared if and when it happened. It was placed on the table with a metallic clank that would probably be enough to take Anita's attention away from the familiar face long enough to clean herself up.

((Sand n' Stuff))


Lauma appeared unamused by Eiry's 'scary face' as she stared in precisely the same way as before he made it. Her mouth may have twitched up a fraction of a millimeter though. Although, whether it was perceptible even at Eiry's close range was undetermined. "I'm not that little..." she said quietly trailing off, referring both to the fact that Eiry wasn't scary just becuase of his face (she still thought he was pretty,) and to the fact that Eiry had called her "little one."

Also, what he said didn't make sense. The minty one had said that he was a ghost but the golden female was not. They both had only chests, they both floated, and they both had glowy bits inside them with ribbon like parts. They were both of the same thing. So they were either both ghosts or neither of them were. "Why isn't she a ghost?" Lauma asked looking up at eagle girl. After a moment's pause she added, "You aren't going to possess me like some ghosts are you..." and with an entire break in the subject added, "You're very... pretty...,"

Jupiter on the other hand, had managed to get himself more tangled up than most people could manage purposefully. He wiggled and pulled on straps, managing to get two bags off. He pulled the umbrella free of the mess and stabbed it into the sand next to him to get it out of the way. Of course it had to pop open, leaving a large pool of shade surrounding Jupiter, drawing attention to him, and knocking the large inflated beach ball away. Caught by the wind, the inflatable rainbow ball bounced almost cheerily down the beach.

"Guh...gah!" Jupiter felt like pounding his fists into the sand but instead filtered the anxiety towards getting the bags off, and spotting Lauma. He found her... talking with two floating creatures! That wasn't right! Jupiter couldn't see ghosts! He'd never seen a ghost in his life and really had never been around Lauma when she saw ghosts. Were these some sort of solid ghosts? And why was Lauma taking the risk of talking to them? AND WHY COULD HE SEE THEM?!

The thoughts raced through Jupiter's head, as he pulled the third bag off. "Darn these stupid bags!" Jupiter thought.