Manta Resort, Zanzibar [Friday Daytime]

[doctorgingerspice]

It's another beautiful day at the Manta Resort, located on Pemba Island in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Sadly, it's also your last full day of vacation, so get on up and make the most of it!

Or don't. We're not the boss of you.

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Re: Porcelain Crab Sunbed

[begmetwice]

"Speaking from experience?" Irene asked, raising a brow teasingly. "I'm envisioning all kinds of hair-pulling and ripped clothes."

What? Those would genuinely be real concerns of Irene's, if she entrusted her entire morning routine to some sort of machine. That, and probably lipstick all over her face, but makeup did not seem to be one of Amaya's primary concerns.

Re: Porcelain Crab Sunbed

[special_rabbit]

And now Amaya was squinting just slightly, uncertain how much of hair-pulling and ripped clothes was due to the Irene-effect or something more concerning, but she decided firmly just to forget about it.

With a snort. "Please," she said, "it takes me more time making my coffee in the morning than it does getting ready."

Re: Porcelain Crab Sunbed

[begmetwice]

"Then aren't you lucky to just roll out of bed looking like that?" Irene replied lightly, plucking up a new meat on a new stick and smiling brightly at Amaya before taking a bite. "And I suppose coffee's already automated."

A long-standing question from the mistletoe day was answered: Amaya was a coffee person!

Re: Porcelain Crab Sunbed

[special_rabbit]

Ah, zards. Amaya should have expected a comment like that; she was definitely blaming the false sense of security granted by these meaty offerings, and she should probably also introduce Irene to the graveyard of broken hairbrushes that would certainly prove that point very wrong.

It was just...so much hair.

"It's...not, actually," she said, sounding equal parts a little surprised by that herself and a little triumphant over Irene having guessed it wrong (little victories, and all that). "I rather like the routine of making it the morning; good way to get a focus on the day, really."

Re: Porcelain Crab Sunbed

[begmetwice]

Irene was a bit surprised to have guessed that wrong, but more importantly, she was pleased that Amaya -- still -- was keeping her guessing.

"Really? I feel the same way about my morning tea," she admitted, smiling slightly. "The ritual of it is nice."

And, as much as Irene herself would never admit it, routines kept her grounded these days.