The Beach By The Boardwalk, Monday Afternoon

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

It was the first day of break and Arden was going to spend it the way the goddess had intended it: out on the beach with the salt and the sea and the sun and the sand, sorry Anakin. She was sprawled out on a blanket with a towel or two next to her and a cooler of drinks and snacks. She had a book with her for later, but right now she was enjoying the warmth while sending out a text to all the usual suspects (and a few new ones for good measure) inviting them to come and spend the day out on the beach with her.

[Open to all! If you think you got a text, you did, or maybe you just happened to be wandering up the beach and decided to chill!]

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[mustbeawitch]

"Indeed, I have found that one person's frivolity is another's absolute necessity," Lydia agreed.

Lord, would her life be simpler if she didn't have to pay her spell-tithes, or were amoral enough for any of the extant options for shoving them off onto someone else.

[wildgalegirl]

Charlie would be horrified if she understood about the spell-tithes.

"If you change your mind I have charm - charms - to spare," Charlie said with a wink.

[mustbeawitch]

"I thank you, but no," Lydia said primly. "Reading until my throat was hoarse once was quite enough for me." Although if she was completely honest, she thought she'd gotten off light for that cooling charm. She'd expected spots at the least.

[wildgalegirl]

"Reading until your throat was hoarse?" Charlie said slowly. "What does that have to do with it?"

[mustbeawitch]

"Oh, I cast a cooling charm on credit when we went to that fake Paris that was so unbearably hot," Lydia explained, or at least it was an explanation to her.

[wildgalegirl]

"And you had to read till your throat was sore to make it work?" Charlie asked. "That's some charm. I just..."

She sketched a charm in the air, calling up a cool breeze before she cancelled it.

[mustbeawitch]

"Oh, don't tell me you're another one that doesn't have to pay for her magic," Lydia realized. "Am I the only one?" It could be worse, she supposed. She could be stuck with one boring color of mana like in Professor Vess's world.

[wildgalegirl]

"I mean, there can be consequences," Charlie said. "Especially if you do somethimg sketchy and the Aunties catch you, but mostly... no."

She smiled ruefully at Lydia. "Sorry?"