[Santo - The Beach]

[walk_ins]

[master post]

You have to walk down a ramp to get to the sand. The ramp stretches over sand dunes, with sea oats dotting them, blowing in the near-constant breeze. On the same level as the ramp: a boardwalk, dotted with places to get sketchy-looking fried food, to try your luck at a number of games of chance, to watch performers, to ride roller coasters of the future!!!!

When you walk down the ramp, it's all white sand and blue water. Down about half a mile is a pier that juts out several hundred feet.

It's a nice beach. Not too crowded.

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[queenofmay]

Marian tilted her head, bright blue eyes peering over the camera, happy relief still quietly present there since the outcome of her wedding, at his words.

"Yes, but then it would not be with all the sand on you and the purple."

[badinlatin]

"How you been, lady? Ain't seen you for a spell."

Mal sits up, finally, dusting himself off and gesturing to his second towel if she wants to sit.

[queenofmay]

Marian let the camera hang around her neck, out of place with her gown, and settled on to the towel heedless of the sand clinging to her wet skirts.

"Home is quiet now," she admitted.


And then, with a quite wide smile. "And better. Home is much better."

[badinlatin]

An eyebrow gets raised. Then two.

"What. Talk."

[queenofmay]

Marian looked up and, though her lips pressed together trying to, the movement could not conceal her smile.

"I punched my fiance at the altar. And left him there."

She still couldn't believe she'd done it.

She would never forget that she had or how it felt.

[badinlatin]

"..."

Mal is confused.

"Aren't you theoretically supposed to like your fiance?"

[queenofmay]

"Theoretically."

Marian agreed with a nod and smile.

"Helps if he doesn't get you there through black mail and threats, but it does make the act much more satisfying."


Marian? Likes punching people? Never.

[badinlatin]

"You're a scary fiancee."

[queenofmay]

She laughed and shifted her skirts, settling her knees upward before her.

"Maybe. I've been one twice now. Maybe marriage isn't for me."

[badinlatin]

"I don't think so."

It's quickly offered, and Mal follows with, "I just think you're going to have to work harder 'n most womenfolk from your where and when for one."

[queenofmay]

There was a thought about that kiss.

She wasn't think too much on it yet. Just it having happened, having that air cleared, so they both knew with and beyond words.


It was enough for now.


"I think you are right," she said softly, wrapping her arms about her knees loosely. "And that it doesn't bother me so much now either."

[badinlatin]

Mal's elbows connect to his knees, and his chin is balanced in his hands cheekily.

"Who is 'e?"

Mal spends too much time around Lilly Kane.

[queenofmay]

Marian laughed, her hand going to her face. She was smiling, even as she blushed.

"You are presumptuous."

[badinlatin]

"Hard not to be, you brimmin' over like that."

[queenofmay]

The red got a little brighter, but she was smiling and shaking her head to her knees.

"The first one I almost married."

She doesn't say the right one. Or the only one. That part is far too soon for the past and present they share.

"Robin of Locksley. Robin Hood now."

Always just her Robin. No title needed. (He was far too arrogant before you gave him one.)

[badinlatin]

"Heard of 'im -- Will Scarlett and all."

[queenofmay]

Marian looked up, chagrin in her pink.

"He's far more human than most people, the men included, give him credit for."

[badinlatin]

"Sounds like he and I would have a fair bit in common actually, if I ever meet him."

[queenofmay]

"I would not disagree with that."

They did have many qualities in common--from temper to humor to loyalty.

"He does come to Milliways, if rarely."

[badinlatin]

That must mean that Mal and Marian are perfect for each other!

Er.

"Tell 'im I have to give him the third degree, now."

[queenofmay]

Narration will now be promptly horrified and amused at that outcome!

Marian laughed.

"I should be hidden somewhere to see that."

[badinlatin]

It could happen. Rly.

"That's what microphones are for."

[queenofmay]

She laughed.

"There are a handful of others who should, too."

[badinlatin]

"It can be a party."

[queenofmay]

Marian smirked.

"You do this often?"