fh_trips | Banyan Tree Resort, Saturday [Morning / Afternoon]

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fall break 2012: kruger park & seychelle

Banyan Tree Resort, Saturday [Morning / Afternoon]

Yesterday's clouds hadn't left the sky: in fact, visitors could expect the odd spot of rain today. Not that the temperature had dropped, rising one degree to 28 celsius - or 82 degrees Fahrenheit.

But don't let the rainclouds chase you off: there was still plenty to do, including an island-hopping cruise arranged especially for the school (Lovey Howell didn't do things by halves). Enjoy yourselves!

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Mercy's eyes went wide. "My foster parents died when I was 14," she said slowly. "I loved on my own after that till about a year and a half ago."

That was probably the smarter choice than what Cade had gone with.

"I turned pirate," he said, reaching up and touching the red tattoo on his bicep.

[lived, not loved, stupid autocorrect!]

"A pirate," Mercy said musingly, her hand raising toward the red tattoo unthinkingly until she caught herself. "I've never known anyone who was a pirate before. What was it like?"

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"Not as full of singing and saying 'arr' as people on this planet expect," Cade said a little dryly. "It was violent and cruel, but at least I got to travel?"

Or go into hiding. One of those.

"I'm sorry," she said quietly. "That must have been hard."

Yeah, Mercy was a sucker for this sort of thing.

"Wouldn't have been very successful pirates if we weren't," Cade replied. "But I paid my debt to the captain and now I'm here."

She smiled at him warmly. "I'm glad you're here, then. But what do you mean 'paid your debt'?"

"Pretty much had to pay him my worth in order to leave the ship," Cade said with a little shrug. "He'd paid for my food and oxygen and all the other karking things he could think of to charge me for. But I'm clear of him now."

Said with the naivete of being seventeen.

"Rough," Mercy said, wondering if the captain would find some excuse to try and come back for him. So sue her, maybe she'd read too many stories. Still, the guy would have a hard time taking Cade from Fandom without a fight.

"You must be glad to be here. I know it's a lot easier for me than it was at my mom's."

"It's weird," Cade said. "There are a lot of people wandering around the island that have been dead for centuries back home."

"Really?" she said, looking curious. "Like who?"

"Jaina Solo," Cade said. "Anakin Skywalker is waaaaaaaay past his karking due date too."

"Wow. I've had both of them as teachers. That has got to be really weird for you." She thought about that for a minute. "I guess there are people who might think that about my guardian if they ran into him now."

He was probably close to a thousand years old - which, drat, she wasn't supposed to tell anyone.

"I mean..." She probably looked rather guilty."

Cade slanted his eyes at her. "Something you aren't supposed to be blabbing?" he guessed.

Mercy blushed a little. "Kind of. I guess I sort of have permission to talk about some of it, but I really haven't. I'm still trying to figure all that out."

"Huh," Cade said usefully. "Something big?"

She couldn't help but laugh. "You have no idea."

"Let me guess," Cade said. "Secret identity?"

Not that he knew about those. Really.

Mercy laughed. "In a way, but no, not really."

"Actually, here in Fandom it wouldn't be such a big deal, but where I'm from... Talking about it can get you severely punished or killed. People are only allowed to tell their spouses."

She sighed. "My guardian told me I can tell people here about me if I want, but I'm not sure if I can talk about the rest of it. And the rest of it is so tied up with who I am..."

"At home, I'd guess you were a Jedi," Cade said, frowning, "or part of the Empire in exile, but here I have no karking idea."

"A Jedi? Are you kidding?" She was a little wide-eyed at that. "I've seen some of them, I'm nothing as cool or important as they are!"

She'd certainly been told often enough by the werewolves just how unimportant and useless she was.

Cade snorted derisively at that. "The Jedi are pretty much exterminated at home. So much for cool and important."

That surprised her and her face undoubtedly showed it. "Wow. I guess that's not what I'd learned here, but if you're from the future... That's kind of sad."

"Still..." She shrugged. "I'm just... I..."

She looked around to see if anyone else was close enough to overhear her. "I can change into something else."

Cade was eager to change the subject away from Jedi anyway. "Into what?"

Now it felt kind of stupid to say it. "A coyote. I can shift into a coyote whenever I want."

She looked up at him nervously. "But you can't tell anyone okay?"

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