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Yes. They'd got past their difficulties and could go back outside! Outside was where most of the fun was anyway. Inside involved too much sitting still. When there was so much to do everywhere, so much to see yet! It only made sense to see as much as possible before someone called you back inside for supper. So it was that Kina's younger sibling had dashed out as soon as the elder began to turn.

In the general manner of her big sis, Einsol snagged a bag from the entry room, and settled to wait by the door
bouncing on her heels. It was only now that the last little detail caught up to the girl. Little face twisted in a puzzled frown. "Shoes? What do I need shoes for? It ain't wet or hot out, Kina." Running on the beach, she picked up her fair share of scrapes and cuts. And while treating them with seawater stung, it had also toughened the soles a good deal. Just like Thal, she thought of shoes as only an occasional necessity.

Head tilted to one side, and the better-dressed body followed, leaning somewhere around the hips. She'd never actually asked why 'Kina was so hard-set against mud. It wasn't like getting clean was boring; you got to play in the water more! Given their family's lines of work, seemed like there was no gettin' away from the stuff, even if she didn't like it. All their pots were made of mud, even if Honi insisted on callin' 'em 'clay'. It was still wet dirt to start with. But, she thought as her mind wound back around to the present, Einsol's big sister still had a problem with nice fresh dirt. An' she was bein' sensible about the shoes, so... A little huff, but the smaller girl got back to smiling in an instant. "Okaaaay. I can try!"

Einsol still didn't quite get cause-and-effect chains. But her sis was tryin' to be nice an' not get mad when she was bein' silly. Einsol was good at not gettin' mad, and could help Kina! ('Cept when I'm bein' silly, too, 'cos I'm hungry or sleepy. ...Is she hungry 'r sleepy all the time!? That'd make so much sense!) Further motivated to put up with Nykinae's silliness, she dashed off a little ways, pausing to let the older Earthling catch up. This would become a pattern in short order, as the default speeds for the blue girl went 'run' or 'stop'.

If Einsol was aware of her sister's proxy exhaustion, she gave no sign. Maybe big sis had a long day already? It had already entered her little blue head that Kina might have been tired or hungry. We should get her somethin' to snack. She might not get anythin' for just her, so maybe we could share somethin'? She thus decided to occupy her mind with what the elder sister liked to eat, and what of those actually tasted good.

"Okay! What'cha pickin' up?" It didn't really seem all that important, now that they were outside. It didn't take much to make Nykinae's sister happy, even if the things they liked sometimes seemed incompatible. The weak filter between mouth and mind sometimes didn't help. "Have you had anythin' to eat today? Startin' to think you're hungry."