Test Drive Meme #1

[proximods]

The sun is shining and the weather is nice and toasty. Overly toasty one might argue, even. It's a great day to be laying around at the beach, so it's a good thing that that's where you've found yourself today, whether you'd made plans to be there or not. Bathing suit and sunscreen ready, you're going to get your tanning time on.

But with heat comes the expected side effects for a place like Proxima Gamma. While the cool water can sometimes slow the effects, the heated beaches and freshly popped flowers seem to have made getting close to someone else just seem like a really great idea. You can try to fight off the side effects much as you want, but the scientists like to believe everyone has a breaking point.

Comments

[irritating]

[ The earbud comes out and her bright green and blue eyes follow, curious still in spite of the annoyance in his voice. Bracelets jangle when she lifts her hand to point at the earbud, now that she realizes it's what's making the muffled sounds, and it's a wonder she doesn't physically give it a poke. ]

That! That fuckin' thing, what is it?

[mulletrock]

[If the bracelets weren't enough to clue him into the fact that she's not what you'd call normal the way she's referring to the tape player is. Instead of being rude about it, Dean lets the hand holding the cord fall back down toward his lap.]

Well, it's not the holy grail. Just a way to listen to stay busy and still cut off the rest of... whatever this is.

[There's a grand gesture toward the beach but it falls short and sloppy. It's not really the beach that bothers him. More like whatever these chuckleheads were pumping through his veins and the fact that he couldn't get out.]

[irritating]

[ The cord soon loses her immediate interest, and instead her eyes flick back up to Dean's face. ]

What's the holy grail? Sounds shiny. [ Gods know she loves shiny. She is technically a pirate from a world that is most certainly not the one this man comes from - though that's quite normal for her. The little brown feathered wings on her back, one of them looking as though it's missing a portion, are also normal for her - and they're part of how she emotes, apparently, because they go from folded to perked up a bit as she settles herself down beside him and looks where he gestures. ]

What, ain't enjoyin' the beach? [ She asks that, but there's a bit of dryness in her tone that suggests that she gets his frustration comes from this entire place instead. ]

[mulletrock]

Supposedly a mythical artifact.

[As much as he might wanna dish on lore that was his day job that's so not what he was in the mood for right now. Right now he's recharging his batteries, that way he can take up his pursuit of getting out of this place once he's back to max battery life.]

Once you've seen one beach, you've seen 'em all. Not that this isn't great, I've been saying I could use a vacation for longer than I can remember.