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The Beach; Friday Afternoon [ 06/05 ].

The event of getting his armour fixed had lead to a rather...pleasantly unexpected diversion. The armour needed some more work, but there were plenty of chances to work on armour. The chances to see a lady in a little tiny bikini, however, was a bit more rare, and he was sweaty and hot from working at the forge, anyway, so Minsc eagerly welcomed the chance to walk down to the beach with Lady Dani and enjoy the sun and the sand and the water...

...but mostly the bikini.

"I fear it is now I who am overdressed now!" he commented with a chuckle and maybe a little bit of misplaced suggestion in his voice. After all, he hardly expected that Lady Dani would be capable, even if she had wanted to, of taking care of that problem in the rather...err...efficient way in which Lady Wilhelmina had.

Although that would mean he'd have an excuse to go to the Gig again if she could...

Bad week for armour! Good week for Minsc!

[[ the Lady Dani hath been modded permissably, and, while Minsc is obviously in her presence, the beach is quite the open spot! ]]

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"Well, you might be just a little overdressed compared to me. I mean, there's not really a lot to this outfit, but that's the point," said Dani, smiling.

"It is very nice," Minsc assured her, grinning like an idiot. "Very cool for warm weather! And it must be freeing, nothing much to restrict your movement! Although it does lack in defense properties, although the distraction factor might make that concern futile!"

"I wouldn't exactly go riding in it, but it is definitely not restrictive," said Dani. "Distraction can also be a good thing. It's too bad you don't have swim trunks. That would probably be nice and cool in this hot weather."

"Oh, most likely," Minsc agreed, "but I could probably lose the mail; that might be a bit breezier, although I'll have to run the risk should we be randomly attacked my evil sea monsters."

Hey, it was totally a possibility. Either way, Minsc was already tugging up the heavy linked shirt over his head. He still had on his tunic (chainmail chafed), but already he felt lighter and more free, and the links jangled as he discarded the armour in the sand.

Dani considered that for a moment. "Have there been attacks by evil sea monsters?" she asked, looking warily at the water's edge. "I mean, I've already seen some weird things on this island."

"I don't....think so?" Minsc offered, tilting his head. "Not while I have been here, anyway, although I would not be surprised. But don't worry> Should any show up, I will gladly dispose of them and tear them to pieces."

Minsc knew his way around valiant sexy-talk. Oh, yes.

"You seem to be a handy person to have around when trouble strikes," said Dani, slipping off her flip flops. "I guess it's safe to go in the water, then, if you're here to protect me."

"Perfectly safe!" Minsc assured her proudly.

Adding to himself the exception of completely bathsit crazy half-bastards of Bhaal who kidnap you and torture the woman you love to death right before your eyes. Buuuut, the clause seemed a bit of a mood killer, so he kept it to himself.

Sea monsters, after all, would be nothing, of that he was quite sure.

And then his brain, which really did work in special ways, thought to inform Lady Dani, "I actually do not know if I can swim."

"Hmmm," said Dani. "Well, maybe we shouldn't go that deep? How about just wading in the shallow part? That's my favorite part of going to the beach."

"Well, if it's your favourite," said Minsc, smiling as he looked at Lady Dani because looking at Lady Dani reminded him of bikinis, "then that is what we should definitely do!"

Dani definitely enjoyed being looked at. She grinned at Minsc, then waded into the water until it came to her ankles. "I love the beach. Even though I didn't live that far from the coast, it wasn't exactly convenient to go to the beach that often. That's one of the reasons why I'm loving this island," she said.

Minsc went to kick off his boots, remembered that he had boots that were too heavy to just be kicked off, and sort of wavered in keeping his balance as he tried to get them off his feet hastily.

It was a good thing they were going in the water, because boots removed out of heavy boots that were worn quite often were not exactly pleasantly fragrant. He waded in after Lady Dani, kicking the water a little toward, not quite enough to splash, just enough to tease a little.

"It is very hot and dry where I am from," he told her, "though I adventured along the Sword Coast quite often! I like the island, too! What else is one of your reasons you like it, if I may ask?"

"I like how the landscape is so different from California, and how there's a completely different ocean out there than the Pacific ocean," said Dani.

Translation: her father was completely on the other side of the country and couldn't meddle with her life as easily as before.

"I," Minsc declared, not without a grin that he thought might have been very smooooooth, "like the company, myself."

"Oh, the company is very nice too," said Dani. "And I love the stable and really getting to work with the horses instead of turning them over to a trainer and jockey."

"It is a good island," Minsc concluded with a nod, and a warm little grin because it had seemed particularly good this week. "I am glad I chose to come!"

"It's a good island with lots of good people," said Dani. "Although that part takes some getting used to..."

It was different from Fremont, where everyone except Junior and Matt tried to use her to get to her father.

"Like all the monsters?" Minsc guessed, although he rather liked that part a lot, himself.

"Alligators shooting goldfish out of their mouths take a little while to get used to," said Dani. "But if a girl's lucky, someone will come to her rescue."

Give him a second. He was thinking about fighting alligators for a moment, actually, miraculously.

And then the rest of him caught up.

"Hey! Someone did come to your rescue!" he pointed out, proudly.

"Uh huh. Can you imagine what could have happened to me, left all alone with the horses, surrounded by hungry alligators?" asked Dani.

"They would have eaten you," Minsc informed Lady Dani, shoulders squaring with even more pride, "after peppering your body with tiny bites from all the goldfish and then probably tearing the horses apart limb from limb, until all that's left is their hooves for glue! Or maybe jello."

What a charmer.

"So it is pretty good I showed up!"

"It's very good you showed up when you did," said Dani. "But I'm even happier that you showed up today."

Awww, Minsc, for all his posturing and posing a fleeting second ago, was now blushing sheepishly, ducking his head and rubbing the bald pate a little. "...yeah?"

"I really needed a trip to the beach and the company," said Dani.

Or, in other words, she wouldn't have been so flirtatious if it hadn't been sex pollen week.

A boat slowly floated by with its motor off -- apparently Jack had forgotten to cast the anchor.

Like most days, he was asleep on the deck, with a beer in his hand and a fishing rod dangling in the water.

UNLIKE most days, anyone with binoculars, or just decent eyesight, would be able to clearly see that although the drapes were getting fairly gray, the carpet was still salt-and-pepper.

The sun felt good.

"And to think I didn't even save you from anything this time!" Minsc noted, looking over at Lady Dani, arching an eyebrow.

And noticing the bikini again. Hello, bikini!

Dani grinned. "Should I do a twirl so you can get a better look?" she asked.

"Allow me to help," Minsc said, offering out of hand so she had something she could twirl on.

"Why, thank you," said Dani, taking his hand and turning around so Minsc could get a better look at how little she was wearing.

Yeah. That was...pretty nice. Took him back to some of his adventures before in the old day. Those Rashemi women...

...if Lady Dani dressed like a Rashemi woman, then maybe, just maybe, there were other Rashemi traits inside of her...

Minsc wasn't sure exactly how well this would work, but he figured he would give it a try. While Lady Dani twirled around his hand, he tried to move it so that he could guide her twirling inward, to bring her twirling close to him.

Dani followed his lead, moving a lot closer. "Like what you see?" she asked.

"I do," Minsc said, his voice low and rumbling as he went to take that twirling arm and wrap it around Lady Dani. Far bolder than what he would ever do, but something else was coming over him and he just wanted her close to whisper in her ear. "In that outfit, that bikini, and moving like that, you remind me of the women of my homeland."

"Really? Tell me more," said Dani, intrigued.

"The women of my homeland," Minsc said, trailing a finger lightly down Lady Dani's side, "are unlike any I have ever encountered, and I have traveled all over the realms, to the Nine Hells and back. They are fiercely beautiful and incredibly powerful and can hold the heart of a Rashemi man in their hands just by looking at them. To look upon them is to become their slave..."

Dani's skin tingled, especially where Minsc had touched her. "Fiercely beautiful, and I remind you of them? I should be flattered."

"It is no flattery," Minsc assured her with a faint smile, "only truth. I do not flatter."

And it was true. He didn't. He was awful at it.

Although right now he was feeling like he could be very good at it, indeed.

He was definitely doing something right, because Dani was feeling pretty good right listening to him and it wasn't just the pollen in the air.

"Well, you definitely seem to know what a girl wants to hear," she said.

Of course, then the thought came to Minsc that maybe he was flirting after all, and that started to make him very nervous, because he knew he wasn't very good at flirting, so if he was flirting, he should actually be failing right now. And he didn't know if he actually should be flirting after what happened with Lady Wilhelmina...

This was too much thinking, he decided. He was just going to go with it. He was never a fan of thinking, anyway.

"I can tell you much, much more," Minsc said, a soft rumble in Lady Dani's ear, "but I can probably...show you even more than that..."

Oh, by holy Tempus' Mighty Blade...

...and speaking of Mighty Blades....

"Well, why don't you show me?" said Dani. She was starting to wonder if a public beach was the best place to be at the moment. Because if Minsc was going to show her what she was thinking he was going to show her...

"This is really not the place," said Minsc, with a chuckle. "It might need something a bit more ...private. If I may escort the lady home, perhaps?" And Minsc went to scoop Lady Dani up smoothly into his arms.

"Oooh, yes. Privacy would be really good right now," said Dani, giggling. It had been a long time since anyone had tried to carry her off.

"Then off we go," Minsc said.

He considered, briefly, their stuff.

"...we can get the boots and chain and little slappy shoes of yours later."

"Shoes can definitely wait," agreed Dani. "I think we really need to go somewhere private, and soon!"

"And where should we go, Lady Dani?" Minsc asked, carrying her as easily as if she were air. "Your place?"

Ah, but she had that roommate...

"My place?"

Ahhh, but the place was rather nicely destroyed from the other night...

"Your place?"

"Or we could go back to the Gig..."

"The Gig works," said Dani. "There's a room just off the stables. Or there's the hayloft. Or the office..."

"Or," said Minsc, "we could try a couple and see what works best!"

"Sounds like a plan!" said Dani.

She just needed to remember that Gwynn opened the next morning and tended to show up very early....

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