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[Anyone who knows Fela knows very well how much she likes to sunbathe. Considering how little she sleeps at night, with her mind busy roaming the dreaming, her frequent habit of daytime naps is not so very strange. She can often be found near her house, laid out on the warm clay with the sun spilling over her face.

Today, however, there is ocean. She does not remember the last time she saw the ocean in the waking world, but she knows that its beauty is featured often in the sleeping fantasies of those she cares for. And it is beautiful. The water glitters beneath the full sun and the sand is silky beneath bare feet. She shields her eyes for a moment as she comes upon the dunes, looking out over the scene with eagerness, feeling the breeze kicked up by the tide as it sends her hair and her skirts fluttering.

She unties the long skirt from around her waist as she heads out across the sand in her top and simple colaless. The top, however, will not be lasting long. It is already quite revealing, covering only the barest essentials for polite company, and in its bright print had probably already been mistaken for a cloth bathing top already. She unties it without much care, making a pile of clothes that she weights down against the wind with the many colorful bracelets and necklaces she wears, as well as the beaded purse she keeps across her body.

She heads down to the water then, laying out in the wet sand where the tide can keep her cool and wet under the sun. She doesn't intend to go anywhere else today. Although there is one thing missing, which she calls to the vine to attend to:]

Mahalia? [She's rolled onto her stomach, wet hair spilling across her face. She pushes it off with a laugh. As she moves, the sun catches her skin and the water and she really is absolutely glowing.] Are you coming to join me?

[As the tide rolls back, it becomes a bit more obvious that it was not just the water glittering so brilliantly. The wild effects of the water have deemed that their visitor be gifted with scintillating scales, nearly translucent except for the sheen of colors that flash every time they catch the light. A rainbow of color overlaying already golden skin. But perhaps you will have to get a bit closer to see them in detail.]

It is lovely either way, but you know I would enjoy your company. Well, really, anyone is invited.

[She laughs again, wiggling her fingers in greeting at the mirror.]

[[ooc; is Vee blatantly abusing the fact that her PB is a sexy sexy swimsuit model? Yeah. Yeah she is.]]

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[Fela looks up at her curiously, she hasn't been paying much attention to the scales, they don't hurt. She does, however, give a bright musical sort of laugh at the fish comment, rolling onto her side to prop her head up in one hand.]

I do not think you could catch me, dulzura.

[She smiles back, enjoying the view of all that rolling and propping.]

Don't be too sure, I'm great at catching little fish. And even if you got away, I bet I'd have fun trying.

[She lifts an eyebrow, not flattered by the description, but not all the way to offended just yet.]

I cannot say I would enjoy being hunted.

[She has been before, she will be again. It will not always end well for her.]

[Reno just keeps smiling and takes another step closer.] Why not? It's fun when I do it. You'll like what happens once I catch you. I know how to treat a pretty thing like you.

[She sits up onto her hands, leaning back slightly. Her posture remains languid, but she is watching.]

Somehow I doubt that.

Oh yeah? [She tilts her head to one side and seems genuinely curious for a moment.] Why's that, beautiful? We only just met. [Then her expression closes again, and she rights her head and laughs.] I notice a lot of people here are not into jokes.

[She smiles, but there's no denying the expression not entirely inviting.]

I suppose it is a matter of taste.

[Reno isn't bothered by the lack of invitation. She plops herself down in the sand near Fela.]

You not into redheads? You're missing out. Don't worry, I don't really hunt girls. I don't need to. I know it might be hard to tell I'm kidding, what with some of the people here.

[She leans in closer.] What do you like to taste, then?

[Fela scoots back slightly, flicking a small amount of water into Reno's face with that same smile.]

I know what you mean by hunting.

[And it did not involve a net.]

I suppose I prefer a bit more romance, however.

[Reno blinks and laughs.] You're a splashy little fish. My favorite kind. Good thing I came prepared. [She pulls her goggles down over her eyes with a grin.] Splash me all you want. I like getting wet.

Romance, huh? [She rolls her eyes. Though her goggles obscure the gesture, her feeling is clear enough.] Waste of time. Why not have some actual fun instead?

[She looks down, drawing idle shapes into the sand with her fingertips, they are smudged each time the tide comes in.]

I don't consider time spent caring for someone to be a waste.

When did I say caring's a waste of time? Don't remember mentioning caring. [Why would she? She shrugs.] Romance is usually a lot of stupid shit, like flowers and poems.

I just don't think you need to know a person to have fun with them. Hey, it's a good way to get to know somebody.

Then I suppose our ideas of romance are rather different.

[Fela is not surprised by this.]

Probably, since I don't give a shit about it. [When most people talk about romance, they're usually talking about things Reno has no use for. But she's perfectly willing to continue this conversation as long as possible, since Fela's topless.]

So what's your idea, then?

Romance is to take your greatest pleasure just from one another's presence.

[She smiles faintly as she considers it.]

To need nothing more than their voice to be happy.

Oh, that? [She blinks.] Sure, that's okay. That's not romance, it's like--liking someone a lot. Don't have to get all romantic about it.

And I don't need it to have a good time with somebody.

[She laughs, light and friendly.]

Yes, I prefer to like someone, quite a lot. Even if the emotions are brief and temporary.

[What she means is that she's a goddamn tease, but when she does finally give it up, it's well worth the wait.]

Got it. [Though not a tease herself--one can usually tell right off whether Reno is going to put out--she knows the type.] I hardly ever like anybody, so I wouldn't get laid much if I thought like that.

How much do you like me now, just so I have a baseline to work with?

[She lifts an eyebrow.]

I think you would have to work very hard to convince me into your bed.

[Reno doesn't mind rejection--well, she doesn't like it, but it doesn't seem to have any impact on her. She laughs, amused.]

I don't mind working hard, if I've got a good reason to. Gives me something to do.

So, what don't you like about me?

I do not think I could trust you.

[A feeling she gets, based on more than just leering eyes and questionable jokes. Perhaps it is the woman's willingness to work very hard for what she wants, even when she so rarely cares about who she pursues.]

[Reno isn't taking this seriously, so she laughs again, though she is on her better-than-average behavior--she might have been less pleasant if she'd found Fela less hot. In spite of her words, she probably wouldn't work all that hard, because very few people can get actual work out of her. And this chick seems kinda boring, boobs aside.]

What? I'm real trustworthy. I'm a public servant, y'know. Defender of the people.

Is that so.

[An easy thing to claim, in fact, the Prents considered the defense of the people as one of their duties, and their reason for hunting witches.]

[This girl doesn't seem to like talking much, but Reno enjoys talking about herself. She is not very accurate and applies some spin, but she applies it in a sincere manner, since she tends to believe her own spin.]

Yeah, sure. Well, mainly I protect the president, you know. He's always getting himself in trouble. [Fondness surfaces in her voice momentarily, as she remembers Rufus jumping off the top of the building and firing his rifle.] But we've got to help everybody out, since the world almost got blown up. Then it almost got destroyed again, and we had to save it. [By we, she mostly means the Turks, and right, Cloud did something, too. Whatever.]

I see, so you must have some wonderful stories to tell.

[That was certainly not unwelcome, Fela forgot all of her own experiences, of course she enjoyed hearing from others. She certainly loved their dreams dearly enough, and each of those spheres told a story of their own.]

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