[Santo - The Beach]

[walk_ins]

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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]

Her smile was smaller and fainter when she spoke. The absence was still there inside of her, but not the ache it had been.

"Caspian and Edmund."

[queenofmay]

[I deleted my one?]

[badinlatin]

Mal's experiences with Edmund are very...different, he imagines, than the ones Edmund and Marian shared.

He does not expound on them, so much as: "Edmund ever tell you the time his brother got kidnapped in my 'verse?"

[queenofmay]

The corner of Marian's mouth puckered, her expression a dazzle of amused surprise. "Peter got kidnapped?"

[badinlatin]

"That he did.

"Rescued by me and Miss Lilly Kane. Quite an experience."

[queenofmay]

Connecting the quiet noble man with the need for rescue by Lilly and Mal made for continued amusement. "Who would kidnap him?"

[badinlatin]

Mal shrugs. "We were not precisely in the most friendly and or hygienic place in my where and when. We went to a bar and three of the more disreputable men there decided he might be worth some coin."

[queenofmay]

Marian grinned.

"He would stick out."

[badinlatin]

"Clearly a moneyed individual," Mal agrees.

"Which, and no offense miss, would be why most folk don't get field trips here from Milliways. Requires my crew to be more careful 'n normal."

[queenofmay]

Marian tilted her head, some curiosity.

"Could you not costume them more appropriately?"




Though Peter would stand out with just his posture and speech patterns.

[badinlatin]

A lift of an eyebrow.

"Would you want to dress up like me?"

[queenofmay]

"It is not the worst thing I have considered wearing," Marian said, her tone both teasing and honest. "Especially as it would for the grace of a new world-- or space."

Instead of thievery and its related fun.

[badinlatin]

"Now you have to tell me what the worst thing is that you've worn.

"I'm imagining girdles."

[queenofmay]

Marian grinned, one side of her mouth quirking. "Likely that would be acquiring the pig slopers outfit in Merton."

Beat.

She shook her head.

"Still covered in mud and trash and other things best not surmised upon."

[badinlatin]

"Ew. 'Course, we could always vacation on Higgins' Moon, and you'd fit right in in that sort of a getup."

[queenofmay]

Marian dipped her toes under some sand and flicked it toward him, with a mocking grimace. "It was necessary at the time, and seemed a much more fitting option than getting caught."

Settling her feet back, she added, "Not that I'd pass on seeing more of all this. Your crew and the others from your time do have interesting stories of many places."

[badinlatin]

"...It's just...life. It's my life, you know? I'll never quite get why folk are so interested in our 'verse."

[queenofmay]

Marian looked up--"And people tell tales of mine for hundreds of years after us."--but then she smiled, something simple and looked toward the water.

"For me, It is this. There was no ocean in my life before this trip. It's just the chance to see something simple and common, that becomes new and amazing, because it was not something I could touch or see before."

And computers.

Because those had hardly lost her interest yet either.

[badinlatin]

"I get that. I think.

"I miss the ocean, sometimes. Even though I live in the black, having spent that time on Earth-that-Was...gets under your skin, in its way."

[queenofmay]

Marian wiggled her toes in the sand.

"Sometimes it makes ones world feel smaller, too. There is so much out there my world hasn't seen and doesn't know yet," she gave a soft laugh. "That yours takes as simply normal."

[badinlatin]

"And here I thought being from a mythological planet would've been enough," Mal laughs.

[queenofmay]

Marian grinned in a relaxed fashion, more teasing than true.

"It never is. Man will wander forever forth."