Night Swimming (Open)

[asharpertongue]

It's been a trying day...week...month, if she's honest. The situation with Bach and the missing elders was getting on her last nerve.

She needed a swim.

Pulling her phone from her bag, she sent a text to a few of the more senior members of the siren community:

Night swimming tonight from sundown on the wrecking beach. All welcome. Food and drink provided. Please spread the word.

That should do it.

She send another note to her contacts at the police station so the unaware human element would be steered away. The wards would be up around the beach, discouraging vanilla humans from coming down there but it didn't hurt to have insurance in these matters.

Hopefully the sirens would come, maybe some of the witches. It would be nice to sprawl on the rocks for a few hours with friends.

Comments

[louise_abasi]

"I don't hear you denying it!"

[asharpertongue]

"Lou, I am not a thousand years old. There. Denial." she poked her tongue out at Louise.

[louise_abasi]

"The legends are only that young?", she smiled innocently. "Golly gosh."

[asharpertongue]

Lara smirked and then covered it, sighing dramatically. "I give up. You've caught me. I'm going to go and drown myself."

[louise_abasi]

"Can sirens do that?" She put her plate down and pulled Lara into a hug. "Please don't show me if you can."

[asharpertongue]

Lara chuckled and hugged her friend back. "Fine. But only because you asked so nicely."

[louise_abasi]

"Pfew. I didn't want to have to explain to your ..everyone how I managed to be the last one seeing you alive."

[asharpertongue]

Lara nodded. "Yeah I don't think I would like to be on the receiving end of that kind of conversation with my people either." She ginned. "I'll have to stay alive then."

[louise_abasi]

"I'd much appreciate it."
She looked over Lara's shoulder. "Are there more pancakes?"

[asharpertongue]

She looks at the table and spies a plateful. "Here."

[louise_abasi]

"Carbs. Delicious, evil. Everywhere. Do you think pancakes are a children's meal?"

[asharpertongue]

Lara snorts and waves a hand. "Eat what you like. I had chocolate pudding for breakfast."

[louise_abasi]

"Breakfast is a whole other barrow of fish. I should be old enough to not think about these kind of questions."

[asharpertongue]

"Wheres the fun in that? You think sensible questions all day every day. You're allowed to think silly thoughts on the weekend."

[louise_abasi]

"I thought about my monsters. I thought indecent things involving sirens." Lou sucks in her bottom lip. "I think I've had my share of fun."

[asharpertongue]

"That's if you assume there's a limit on fun. Which there isn't."

[louise_abasi]

"You forget that I'm human. I have a limit to time and therefore a limit to acting silly." She winks. "Some day soon I will have to grow up."

[asharpertongue]

"Oh god. Please don't. Because then I'll have to grow up too. And I don't want that, thanks."

[louise_abasi]

"I'm sure.." She coughed. "Never mind." She giggled. "Childish remark."

[asharpertongue]

Lara grinned. "Go on...don't tease."

[louise_abasi]

"I wanted to say that you've been old for such a long time that surely you're starting on a second or third youth right now. Which is slightly misogynistic and rude and I don't know how I came up with it. I'm sorry."

[asharpertongue]

Lara laughed loudly. "Then it's still valid."

[louise_abasi]

"I've been offending you all night, I don't know what's my 'deal'. I'm really sorry and going to stuff my face with pancakes now."

[asharpertongue]

"Lou. If my skin was that thin, I really wouldn't be very good as either a mediator or Matriarch. Stuff your face if you want, but not because of me."

[louise_abasi]

"I consider you a friend. You don't offend those."