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Characters: YOU!!!
When: April 18
Where: Nesreca Recreational Center
Rating: G!
Summary: The rec center's been restored for 24 hours. What do you do?

WHAT'S AVAILABLE: Swimming poll, basketball court, sports equipment, and other recreational things.

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[1mistress_nomaster]

She had to go see this apparent water that wouldn't go give you every kind of horrible disease. Skirts held up as if something would latch onto them and drag her down.

It scared her badly. And not just because the first time someone assassinated her she'd been on a boat.

[doctor_dragoon]

Yukio smiled when he spotted her and started in her direction, still fully dressed in long pants and a worn sweater. Rin is already having the time of his life in the pool, but... such activities aren't really Yukio's thing.

"Are you alright?"

[1mistress_nomaster]

She was startled out of her contemplating certain death by him -- looked up surprised, relieved that it was only him... and not some horrible fae creature wanting to consume flesh... or something such.

"I just... swimming isn't something that's done in my time. Ever. At all."

[doctor_dragoon]

He raised an eyebrow, curious.

"Really? Why not?"

[1mistress_nomaster]

"Because no one knows how to swim -- and because water is unclean and very likely to give you the plague or some other disease." Trying to sound as reasonable as possible about this.

[doctor_dragoon]

He considered her words, nodding after a few moments.

"That makes sense considering the time you're from, but water like this," he said, gesturing to the pool, "is very safe to swim in. It's treated with special chemicals to take all the impurities out."

[1mistress_nomaster]

"... Is that what that smell is?" The smell of chlorine that is.

[doctor_dragoon]

"That's right. It's not the most pleasant smell, I know, but you grow used to it."

[1mistress_nomaster]

"It smells like the cleaning equipment I found a little..." in some unspecified cupboard she'd been digging around in.

[doctor_dragoon]

"Some of the same chemicals are used, but they're diluted quite a bit." He looked out at the pool and the other people splashing about in it.

"It's perfectly understandable if you don't want to swim, but you don't have to worry about the others here either. No one will get sick just from being in the water."

[1mistress_nomaster]

"I see, yes it's no where near as strong as this." Watching the water, trying not to look at the people into too much because her brain was not dealing so well with how people were dressed.

"I am glad to know that, and they seem to really enjoy it too." She wouldn't be, to say the least.

[doctor_dragoon]

"It is fun. If you enjoy that sort of thing."

[1mistress_nomaster]

"I'd be terrified, my people have many strange beliefs about water, that my nurse delighted in terrifying me with when I wouldn't behave. In some stories, beautiful white horses are seen, standing by the water and when they find a human being, they'll play with them, urge them to ride them, only your hands stick to it's skin. It drags you down into the water, where it reveals itself to be a monster, and rips the flesh from your bones." Shudder. She really, really disliked water. Bathing was fine, she even enjoyed that -- deep places? Even here? Just no.

"Admittedly, she told me that one less about water and more about my love of horse riding to stop me from running off to the stables but..." she shrugged. What nurses intended and what children learnt weren't always the same thing.