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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Re: Tidepool Education

[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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[endsthegame]

"Sounds like a fun night," Ender said, with no small amount of amused quirk-of-mouth. Though it wasn't exactly his kind of fun night. "I'm hoping the rest of the week was about as good," he added, because he wasn't, in fact, going to be spending the whole time talking about Ben being drunken and clingy and rambly.

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[glacial_queen]

Suuuuure he wasn't. Suuuure.

"On Wednesday night when you two were being completely heterosexual!, Warren took me out for a really impressive date," Karla said, flushing a bit while wearing a very large grin. "He chartered a boat to take us out to a pineapple-filled island. We had dinner at sunset on the ocean and then flew back after it got dark. It was wonderful."

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[endsthegame]

Ender smiled warmly. "That's really good to hear," he said. "The two of you deserved a good time."

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[glacial_queen]

"There were crepes," Karla said, sighing happily. "Our special crepes. He thought of everything."

As half-versary celebrations went, it was going to be awfully hard to beat.

"And how's your week been going?" she asked, since a play-by-play of exactly how wonderful each minute of their date had been would probably wear even Ender's patience thin? "I saw you Sunday and then you were gone."

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[endsthegame]

"My week has... gone," Ender said, still in a state of a sort of distant gladness that Karla was happy. He glanced down at the tidepool. "I needed a little time to myself, but I'm about ready to un-disappear myself now."

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[glacial_queen]

"With so much of the vacation left, however will we cope with the influx of Ender?" Karla asked dryly.

Which mostly was just a placeholder comment so she could figure out how to word the next question.

"Peopled out from the trip home?" she asked delicately. "Or needed some time to think and process...?"

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[endsthegame]

"Both," Ender replied, glancing up at her, "But I'm all processed out on all sides." So no talking please, Karla. "And yesterday I had a lovely trip out to the rainforest zoo, so it's not all been brooding, I promise."

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[glacial_queen]

"So no poking, Karla," Karla said, smiling a little bit. Yeah, she could pick up on the unspoken when she really wanted to. "Aww, I missed that trip. I ended up sleeping late again."

Not that she needed much prodding to do that anyway.

"Does that mean you're all cute animal'd out, too?" she teased. "Is that why you have no love for the baby turtles?"

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[endsthegame]

"I think when you've seen Raven stalked by a peacock, you've seen it all," he joked, gently. "Though I wouldn't call most of those animals 'cute' by any stretch. There was a tiger."

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[glacial_queen]

"Arcerian cats are very cute and cuddly," Karla maintained staunchly, ignoring the fact she only felt that way about kindred cats. "I'm sure tigers can be, too."

She darted him a quick grin. "We can always leave the tidepool to go set up a game of beach volleyball?"

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[endsthegame]

Ender blinked at her. "Why beach volleyball?" he said. "You're not really the sporty type."

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[glacial_queen]

"Oh, don't worry," Karla assured him. "I'd just be taking pictures of everyone else playing beach volleyball. Document it for posterity and all that stuff."

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[endsthegame]

Ender shot her an amused look. "I think I'll pass," he said, "I said pictures were okay, I never promised to be a performing monkey for them."

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[glacial_queen]

"I'll pay you in bananas?" Karla offered, laughing. "I don't think you'll ever get a better deal for beach volleyball than that."

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[endsthegame]

"Which is why I'll probably never play beach volleyball," he said, solemnly. "Sorry, Karla. You'll have to find another victim. Ben will do anything for a meal..."

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[glacial_queen]

"Oh, I just have to tell him he agreed Sunday night at the bar," Karla said airily. "So that's...one! How many more people do we need for a game? You can referee!"

It's not like Karla had any idea what beach volleyball actually entailed--or cared. But pretending like this was actually a feasible idea would teach Ender to be dismissive of the charms of baby turtles.

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[endsthegame]

Yes, Ender was certainly learning his lesson. Or something.

...

He could see right through your straight face, Di Glacia.

"A few," he offered, because his straight face was much better. "I don't know. Beach volleyball wasn't really big up on Battle School, Karla."

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[glacial_queen]

"And here, that's how I was going to guess you passed the majority of your vast amounts of free time up there," Karla said, bending down to snap a picture of a colony of sea urchins. "Sigh. Another illusion shattered."

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[endsthegame]

"Sorry," Ender said, unrepentantly. "So I'm afraid your volleyballing plans are quite wasted on me. Were there any other adorable animals you wanted to shove me at, or have we moved on to sports in full?"

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[glacial_queen]

"No, I think we've quite exhausted the topic of sports, sadly enough," Karla decided. "So I'm going to have to default back to terrorizing you with baby sea creatures until I can figure something else to devil you about."

Hey, it kept Karla amused.

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[endsthegame]

Ender sighed. "I suppose we should pick a moral quandary and just run with it," he said, "but now that just feels desperate."

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[glacial_queen]

"Oh, like any other day that ends in 'y'?" Karla said. "Nonsense. There must be something more fun we can chatter about while I make heavily veiled comments and drop subtle hints about aspects of your personal life."

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[endsthegame]

Don't say you weren't expecting that exasperated groan. Don't say it. "Let's keep my personal life out of it."

Yeah, you would like that, wouldn't you, Ender?

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[glacial_queen]

It was good that Ender always kept that hope alive, it really was. Part of his 'never-give-up' mentality or something.

"That was the unspoken benefit of beach volleyball," Karla said with a sigh. "Unfortunately, we mutually agreed not to get involved with that. So, did Valentine mention that she and I chatted?"