The beach- Wednesday morning

[notconflicted]

Sia still had a little time before her portal out, and with everything packed up from her room it was too boring to stay there. So instead she came out to the beach to wait, letting Vitor play around by the water so maybe he'd handle dealing with portals better later. And then she sent off a quick text to let people know where she was, and sat in the sand to watch.

It was probably too much to hope there'd be a beach anywhere in her near future after this...

[Sia's last post in Fandom! Open!]

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[suitably_heroic]

So, yeah, Atton? Not in Fandom at the moment. Very much not in Fandom at the moment.

To be specific, he was currently crammed into a hidden compartment on board a pirate ship. Normally, he wouldn't exactly be in the mood to respond, but 1) Sia never texted him, and 2) he was bored. Really bored. It'd be hours before they got where they were going.

Beach, huh? I hope the weather's nice.

Okay, so it wasn't the most exciting text ever.

[notconflicted]

Hey, boredom was why she was here!

It isn't terrible. Are you not around to look out your window?

[suitably_heroic]

Nope.

Okay, he realized a second later he should probably elaborate on that a little.

So, did you know that when your government is terminally unstable, lots of pirates pop up on trade routes?

[notconflicted]

Uhhh, this was probably not going anywhere good, huh?

Yes, actually. Should you be texting right now?

[suitably_heroic]

I'm currently crammed up between several bags of high-grade street drugs and what I think is a very expensive closet originally meant for the Queen of... somewhere, Atton wrote. Nobody's going to find me here until they stop off at headquarters at the earliest. You enjoying the view?

[notconflicted]

Yes. Are you?

Ah, teasing via text.

[suitably_heroic]

Yes, it's everything I've ever wanted in a dank, damp storage compartment full of glitterstim. Occasionally I even get to see the underside of someone's dirty boots.

Not now, though. He'd shifted so at least the light of the phone was blocked.

[notconflicted]

On the plus side, you're having a more interesting day than I am.

[suitably_heroic]

Oh, you're going to have your fair share of interesting days soon, I'm sure. Sith have a habit of causing those.

[notconflicted]

True. Those days will probably also require bandages...

[suitably_heroic]

Only if you don't do it right, Atton texted. ...Okay, scratch that, I do it right all the time and I still wind up with bandages. Just don't get yourself stabbed anywhere lethal, all right?

Not everyone bounced back the way he did.

... Actually, only one other person came to mind who bounced back the way Atton did, and he'd had to be talked into laying down and dying.

[notconflicted]

I'll do my very best. I'd like to avoid that myself, personally.

[suitably_heroic]

Good.

Atton eyed his phone. Well... if he couldn't ask now without getting the animal foisted on him, when could he ask?

So what're you doing with the dog?

He'd kind of talked her into the dog back in the day, so he was curious.

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four was on the island!

His portal didn't leave until tomorrow. He wandered down to the beach with a slightly pained attempt at a smile on his face. "So."

[notconflicted]

"So," she said, looking over at him. "Are you ready to go yet?"

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four rubbed his hair and shrugged. "Kind of? I'm excited to see if I'm any good at training people."

[notconflicted]

"I have no question about that," Sia smiled. "You'll be great."

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four smiled back. "If I'm not, can I call you, maybe?"

[notconflicted]

"Of course," she said. "Even if there are times I can't pick up, I'm very good at returning calls."

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to pretend that you can't answer because you'll be doing something that doesn't involve you getting shot at," Four said.

[notconflicted]

"There's also a good chance I'm having to do something diplomatic," she said helpfully.

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four smiled. "Actually diplomatic, not just glaring until they do what you want?"

...there was a reason Four wasn't in Amity. He didn't have a diplomatic bone in his body.

[notconflicted]

"Actually diplomatic," she said. "Apparently I'm very good at it."

All things considered, that was great.

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

"Huh," Four said. "Did you take classes here for it or something?"

[notconflicted]

"Just natural talent," Sia said. "Also I'm a princess." That helped.