Kohala Coast, Hawaii - Morning & Afternoon - Friday - February 25th

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With only two days of vacation left, time was running out for the guests to enjoy the blue skies and warm ocean breeze of Hawaii. Luckily, there were still plenty of things to do at the resort, for anyone who wasn't worn out from all the fun yet!

[ Guest Quarters | Resort Activities | The Spa Without Walls | Beach Activites | Tidepool Education | OOC ]

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[glacial_queen]

It was Friday and Karla was determined to do something other than lounge on the beach and hang out at the bar, as much fun as both those activities were. And vanishing to another island with Warren, while tempting, wasn't actually going to help her hang out with lots of people during the remainder of the vacation.

Which was why she was checking out the tidepool education activity instead--that and the lure of adorable baby animals.

Okay, and also the lure of subjecting Ender--among others--to her squeals about baby animals.

"Ooooh! Lookit! It's so tiiiiny! Where's my camera?!"

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[endsthegame]

"You're asking me?" Ender asked, quite sensibly, and with his eyebrow raised as far as anyone not trained in the art of eyebrow-raising could manage.

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[glacial_queen]

"It was rhetorical," Karla said, shooting him a look that suggested he was not properly moved by the wee bitty baby animals. In fact, her camera was hanging by the band around her wrist, so it hadn't even been misplaced, exactly. She pointed to a baby turtle, swimming contendly in the tide pool. "How can you look at that bitty face and not think it's adorable?"

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[endsthegame]

Ender pulled away from the rock wall he'd previously been leaning against to get a closer look. "It's adorable," he said, obediently, "And bitty." It was... kind of obvious that he was humoring her. Though mostly because he was making it obvious. "And a turtle, Karla."

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[glacial_queen]

Karla just rolled her eyes. "What do you have against turtles?" she asked. "It's still all wee and cute and baby-like."

She snapped a picture of it craning its head up to her, and then turned and snapped another of Ender. "If you get closer," she added impishly, "I'll get one of the two of you together?"

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[endsthegame]

"I have nothing against turtles," Ender said, lightly, "but as far as species go, they don't exactly raise my nurturing instinct." No, you saved that for bugs, Ender. But he did obediently lean a little closer. "But I promised you pictures," he sighed.

At least he'd worn the nice blue button-up instead of his monotonous collection of Property-of-the-International-Fleet t-shirts? You know, for posterity?

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[glacial_queen]

Karla happily clicked a picture of Ender and the turtle. "I think it's smiling at you!" she said, taking another that a generous viewer could perhaps agree that the turtle's head was angled towards Enders. "And baby creatures of almost any species are adorable. To keep us from eating them when they get annoying."

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[endsthegame]

"Well, as long as you recognise the underlying reasons," Ender said, dryly. He did not think the turtle was smiling at him, no. He leaned back. "So I heard you got a few objects stuffed into a certain person's drink."

That was a better topic of conversation than turtles, right? Ender, stop talking about Ben.

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[glacial_queen]

"It was hilarious right up until he decided that the plastic monkeys were giving him cooties," Karla said, laughing. "What am I talking about? It was still hilarious after that, too. Mother Night, Ben got so drunk."

While Karla had remained perfectly sober, thank you.

"Which was his own fault, because he kept stealing my drinks."

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[icecoldfrost]

"Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaarla! I have fingers!" Yes, Emma is over-thrilled with this, but it means she can fling her arms around Karla for a hug. "And a voice!"

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[glacial_queen]

"Which means you can still laugh at Jono for having to wear Hawaiian shirts!" Karla laughed, squeezing Emma back tightly. "I was worried that you'd miss out on that opportunity!"

Because of everything in Hawaii, that was what Emma would miss most, yes.

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[icecoldfrost]

"Color is very fetching," Emma deadpanned. "I appreciated it most of the week already, I simply could not articulate my joy as an ermine."

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[glacial_queen]

"Something similar happened to Raven's clothing as well," Karla said, lips twitching. "If you hadn't been an ermine, I would have accused you of doing that to both of them. Since you were, however, I suppose I can only accuse you of masterminding it all."

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[icecoldfrost]

"Clearly, I was a stoat with an agenda," Emma agreed. "Although I think I would have added more sparkles to whatever the clothing bandit sent her."

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[glacial_queen]

"Considering I got thwapped with a pillow for not seeing the inherent tragedy of it all, I think you did well enough," Karla assured Emma. "Bright colors and thin straps seemed to do the trick."

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[icecoldfrost]

"Pillow fight? Kinky," she remarked dryly. "I do hope those thin straps didn't give way."

It was possible that Emma was a little bit impish today, after spending so much time chasing her own tail for amusement.

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[glacial_queen]

"Oh, don't worry," Karla said loftily, seeing Emma's impish humor and raising it. "We hadn't gotten dressed yet."

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[momslilassassin]

"There," Ben said, pointing at her wrist and smiling.

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[glacial_queen]

Karla snatched at it and grinned at Ben. "I knew that the whole time," she informed him. "Really." Bringing the camera up to her face she instructed, "Smile!"

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[momslilassassin]

Ben gave her the well-practiced "I'm humoring you" look of all sixteen year old boys before flashing her a genuine grin.

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[glacial_queen]

Click!

"Good," she said, checking the viewing screen. "I'll have something to balance out all those drunken pictures I took of you at the bar on Sunday. I can't have everyone thinking that's all you did on vacation."

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[momslilassassin]

He turned a lovely brick red. "That was all your fault."

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[glacial_queen]

"Right," she said dryly. "I'd forgotten I'd forced you to steal all my drinks. Funny how that detail had completely slipped my mind."

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[momslilassassin]

"I hear drinking leads to memory loss," he told her.

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[glacial_queen]

"So what you're saying is that you have no idea what happened Sunday night at all," Karla said, snapping her fingers in comprehension. "Why didn't you say so?"