Banyan Tree Resort, Saturday [Morning / Afternoon]

[endsthegame]

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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Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

"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."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

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

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

"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."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

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."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

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

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

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

Not that he knew about those. Really.

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

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..."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"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."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

"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.

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

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."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

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?"

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Cade said easily. "What's a coyote?"

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy had to laugh. Of all the responses she might have considered, that had never been one she'd thought of. She pulled out her phone and called up a page on canis latrans.

"Here," she said, offering it to him. "It's a small animal, in the dog and wolf family."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Oh, like the spirit animal things from a few weeks ago," Cade said. "Mine was a hyena."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

She nodded. "Yeah. Not too different. So, anyway, yeah... It's why my mother didn't keep me. She walked in one day and found a coyote pup in the crib and... it was just too hard. So she found a safe place for me to live."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Animal park?"

Beat.

"Or was that horribly insensitive?"

Probably the second thing, Cade.

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

"Yeah, that would have gone over well," Mercy said, half-laughing despite - or maybe because of - how horribly insensitive that was. "And then randomly there's a little naked toddler running around the animal park. I'd have lasted like 5 minutes."

She shook her head. "No, she found a great-uncle who was a were - um, who knew of a community where I wouldn't be as different and they found me foster parents there."

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"That was a pretty nice abandonment, all things considered," Cade replied.

His mother hadn't even said goodbye.

Re: Hopping Islands [13/10: Morning/Afternoon]

[walkswithcoyote]

"Yeah, it's not like she just dumped me and never came back," Mercy agreed. "We had those yearly vacations when she could get up to Aspen Creek."