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

[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."

[asharpertongue]

"If I was offended, you'd know about it." Lara shook Lou lightly. "Stop worrying."

[louise_abasi]

"Sorry, sorry." She threw her hands in the air. "This is what I get when I have too much time off. Can't wait until I can start working full time again."

[asharpertongue]

Lara grinned. "You can take the work away from the girl but not the girl away from the work, it seems."

[louise_abasi]

"Or I need more confused and screwed up people in my acquintance list."

[asharpertongue]

She grins* "One or the other."

[louise_abasi]

"Think you can help me out there?"

[asharpertongue]

"I've been trying that for most of our adult lives."