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"Is it the swimming you miss the most?" She asked. "There are indoor pools. I know it's not the same, but plenty of people settle for it." Sadie was not one of them, not usually. Pools were iffy, in general, with how full of chemicals and body fluids they tended to be, and when she was inside, there was nowhere for the smell of the chlorine to go. She did have a soft spot for the water, but she much preferred lakes, or better yet, the ocean.

"I don't mind going outside in the early spring, even if it's still cold," she said. Her favorite part of the year was when she could watch the growing things come back to life, when any warmth at all felt special. "I just hate how it gets dark as dark in the wintertime."

She brightened at the mention of the music and turned from a pile of brand new electronics some company had donated in order to look at him. "I think I like soundtracks the best, too," she said. "Well, that and soft indie songs that sound like you're sitting around a campfire after a road trip." She nodded at that, because those were some of the best. "But when I was practicing the ocarina, I found a lot of video game soundtracks, and they're lovely, lovelier than I would have thought."

She took another look up and down the tables, but this wasn't so much the kind of things that she really was interested in. She turned to Duncan. "Did you want to go outside?"

"Florida, then?" said Pendour, thinking about the way it looked in postcards, with the palm trees and the endless summer sun. "Or farther south, to the islands?" They looked even nicer in the pictures, with fewer awkward skyscrapers and more jungle-edged beaches. She'd been to Puerto Rico once, and she still remembered the sound of the frogs singing in the evenings. Still, it wasn't all perfect.

"It's muggier there than the advertisers would want you to think," she said, "But still lovely, sometimes. Maybe a vacation in the middle of winter would be just the thing to pull out of that rut."

She glanced wistfully at a surfboard that someone had donated and thought about waves crashing around her. Yes, that would be lovely. She was still thinking about it as Duncan started towards the door at her request.

And it would have kept being lovely if someone hadn't rolled out a certain television set.