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Yes, it was hard to be bored on this island. Why? Because if you were bored there was always s**t to do. Duties, training, anything. But sometimes even that apparently got boring. Candace had done enough training and working out for the day. She was tired of it! But what now? She still had one duty left for the day..Underwater Observation. On a regular day she'd be totally okay with it. Hell, Candace kind of liked this duty. On a day she was feeling bored and restless? There was no ******** way she was doing this by herself.

Who to bother..who wouldn't turn her down because they knew this duty was boring as hell? Though nothing could be quite as boring as Sleepers duty.

Candace had only one option. Her little goddess divine.



The text sent, Candace sighed and slid down the wall until she was sitting down. Now to wait.

Ah! She would come! Good, good. Candace put her phone away in her pocket and sighed, closing her eyes and settling comfortably to wait. Thankfully it wasn't terribly long before Molly arrived as cheerfully as ever, looking very ready to help Candace be a little less bored for a couple hours. She couldn't help but smile, holding a hand out to the girl as a silent request to be helped up.

Once Candace was standing she draped her arms over Molly's shoulders and laid a kiss against her cheek. "Good afternoon, pretty lady~! Thanks for coming. I would get so bored if I did this by myself. I've got cards and stuff but they're only entertaining for so long without someone to play with meeeee. C'mon, c'mon~." Taking Molly's hand, Candace led her down into the station.

"I hope I wasn't interrupting anything?" She suddenly asked as she sat down in one of the chairs, taking off her coat and draping it over the back of it.

"Normally it's one of my favorites but today has been weird for me. I don't know what my problem is...think cabin fever might finally be starting to get to me. Oh noooo, Molly what ever will I do~." Candace playfully whined and reached out to cling to the redhead, pouting her lips almost pitifully. Protect me Molly protect meeeee~. She wasn't surprised to hear Molly brought her things for knitting, though she did find it odd that she didn't bring it with her this Ike if it was something she always did. Candace watched Molly undo a few buttons with a little hum, tilting her head to one side. "I don't think I've ever seen you without your coat, not even with it open.." It wasn't exactly a request, just an observation. But she wouldn't be complaining if Molly took of her coat as a result. Nope, not even a little bit.

It had been awhile since she touched her fiddle. Oh, Molly...you're so lucky Candace knows when to be mature. "Aw, I wish you'd brought it! I've never heard you play before. Next time?" She scoot her chair over, positioning it in such a way that she could lean over and use Molly's chest as a pillow, making herself very comfortable. "It's been quite dull, and it's making me restless. Yours?"

In a fit of playful melodrama Candace placed the back of her hand against her forehead and closed her eyes, 'swooning' against Molly with a dreamy sigh of despair. "But Molly! I don't think I can resist it much longer! Who knows what I'll do!" She kept up the act for a few seconds more before finally settling back comfortably against Molly. Ah, so Lance had given her The Lecture. Understandable, but she was still curious. Another time.

Giggling at Molly's frantic apology, Candace waved a hand and reached back to play with Molly's pretty red ringlet curls. So soft~. "Don't worry, sweetheart. Yes, next time. Not like you can read my mind. This and talking will be just fine." She turned her head to glance out the clear wall that separated them from the ocean outside, watching the faint shadows she saw flickering in and out of their line of vision. Nothing seemed to be getting too close for the moment. Good. She'd never really seen anything get close aside from regular fish that posed absolutely no threat. Maybe one day she'd see a shark or something.

"Lucky cannon cats. Think I'd like to pretend to be one of them for a couple hours." Candace murmured, snuggling up against Molly to emphasize her point. "A new friend~? Do tell."

A new hobby, huh? Maybe. But what? She admired Aria's carving skills, they were pretty great from what she had seen, and she would love to see Molly's knitting but neither of those seemed like appealing options to her. What could she do? "I'll think about it." Candace finally answered to Molly's suggestion, turning on her side and nuzzling her cheek against Molly's chest. The position was a little awkward for her given the angle but she could deal with it for now. The squeeze won a giggle from her, holding onto one of Molly's arms and returning the sentiment. Good, no arguing with the Cannon Cat.

"Jeremy? Interesting. Sounds kind of familiar. I think there used to be another Jeremy aside from Jerry for awhile...been a long time though." Candace just assumed he died. It wasn't uncommon, even Lance said he wouldn't take her up on any of her kiss offers because she was a trainee and trainees died too easily in comparison to Hunters. She couldn't remember this other Jeremy for the life of her though, just his name. "That happened to me once, kind of. I was on my way to use a golem and Ceres just happened to wake up as I was passing by. I freaked out and thought I'd woken her." She chuckled. "So he's nice, huh? Is he cute?"

A..reawakening? Like Ceres? Candace blinked. A year...so maybe it was the same Jeremy? Strange. She was idly toying with one of the undone buttons on Molly's coat when the girl announced she knew Ceres, tilting her head back to grin up at her. "Well, woke up as in she was reawakened. I guess she was put in there just..randomly. I don't know. But she didn't actually do anything wrong, I guess." God Molly was soft and comfy. Candace made herself as comfortable as she could given her awkward positioning on the chair and Molly. Maybe she didn't quite think this through...oh well, there was always next time.

"When I woke up there was a large group of us. Some of them I don't see anymore...I don't know if they died, were moved to off-island posts, or if I'm just completely missing them throughout the day. I've helped with large groups, too. What's it like waking up by yourself? I know the entire experience is disorienting to begin with, but at least with a group you don't feel like such an idiot when you stumble out of your pod for the first time..."

Super nice and cute. Candace frowned. Why did she suddenly feel jealous? That was silly. Stop that, Candace. "Maybe it's the same Jeremy after all." She turned her head up again to grin at her cuddle buddy. "I could make your hair go poof~." Candace teased and reached up to lightly tug one of Molly's curls, releasing it to watch it spring back into place. "Though it wouldn't be like dandelion petals."

Ah, so that was the only difference? That must seem so disorienting, to wake up alone. At least Jim was helpful, because what if Molly hadn't gotten someone willing to help her? Candace didn't think she'd have been comfortable waking up that way even with H's voice to guide her...and especially considering she'd hated the man at first that might have made it an even worse experience. Sighing, she shook her head and looked up at Molly again with a little shrug. "Maybe. I didn't know him very well, just from like..an introduction thing they made all of us do in my group. They had us go around the room and introduce ourselves. I didn't know him anymore than that..."

Oh? What was this? Was Molly challenging her? Candace raised a brow and tilted her head to one side, suddenly moving to sit up on her own. "Hmmm~." No humidity? Then there was only one way, really.

"But cheating is fun.." Candace mused, standing from her chair to circle around Molly, a hand resting gently on the girl's shoulder. "I'd muss it up using my hands, of course. Since I can't use humidity." She stopped behind the girl and moved her hands to bury them in Molly's soft hair, her lips pursed in a thoughtful expression. "Or I'd brush it but that'd probably hurt, and I'd never hurt you. It'd take a long time with my hands though..my hair tends to fro out in the humidity. I blame my father. Did you see it after we were in the Sahara and the Amazon? Ugh it was awful." Candace shuddered at the memory of having to tame the insane mane that was on her head. She hated her hair sometimes, and she was starting to run out of the product she used on it to keep it soft.

Damn island lockdown. It was ******** up her hair.

"But sometimes cheating is fun! Besides, I wouldn't call it cheating I'd call it...being resourceful! There we go, that sounds good." Candace hummed cheerfully as she messed with Molly's hair, though it felt more like she was massaging the girl's scalp than trying to mess up her hair. Despite Molly's encouragement that it was okay, that Candace couldn't hurt her and she didn't care, she didn't want to cause any amount of pain to Molly's head.

Straighten it? Now that was an interesting thought. "Yeah? It's probably really long, huh...I have a straightener." Candace leaned down to put her head on Molly's and dropped her arms so they were simply hanging lazily over Molly's shoulders. "I could straighten your hair after this if you're really that curious. Though I like your curly hair, it's fun to play with."