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Who: Everyone! New Feathers especially.
What: New Feather welcome party!
When: Thursday, 5 pm.
Where: Battle Dome
Summary: IT'S A SUMMER PARTY
Rating: Worksafe, I reckon!
It's cold out there today, isn't it? Sure, it's not snowing but once you get into the Battle Dome, it'll be comfortably warmer. Warmer, not warm. Follow the tiny paper arrows and you'll probably find yourself in, well...summer!

It certainly looks convincing enough (a pool, a volleyball court, deck chairs, everything that you'd think you'd find at a pool party) and feels convincing enough (take off that coat! Aren't you hot?) so why not not step in? The barbecue's sizzling and there's some nice cold drinks at the cooler.

C'mon in, the water's awesome!

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"Hmm..." Adele looks up and down the length of the pool, then gauges her own height and reach versus Caius. She takes the years she'd been unable to swim into account and decides to go ahead and race the young man anyway.

"Probably. Is that a challenge?"

"It might be. You up for it?" Swimming over to the poolside and hanging on with his arms to hold himself steadying for a kick start from the side, should his little challenge be accepted.

"It's just a friendly race, nothing serious." Though the winner is totally going to have bragging rights for the next ten minutes or so, and that makes it worth it.

"Most certainly." Adele follows, stretching her arms arms out as soon as she can hold herself above water with the side of the pool. This was...fun. Frivolous. Ultimately without a point. She makes a mental note to thank Ginia for bringing her out here.

"Whenever you are ready Ciaus." She braces herself similarly against the side of the pool, feet tucked against the wall.

"Alright, on three. One... Two..." Bending his legs-- "Three!" Kicking his legs back and gliding through the water. They're off!

Adele launches herself, arms up, toes pointed, pulling herself along with an ease born of familiarity. Not as fast as she'd once been, but this was more about enjoying the race than anything else. Through the water, she's smiling to herself with every stroke.

Caius meanwhile is doing some bad rendition of the front crawl, slapping the surface of the water with his hands as he tries to reach the other side of the pool first. Even if it's a friendly race it's still a race, plus swimming is one of the few things he's been taught about so it would really suck to lose.

Were it a straight lined race it might be faster, but as it is Adele has to weave around the other party goers and adjust to the very disturbing sensation of the water sliding through the feathers of her wings. She shudders, faltering mid stroke and coughs before regaining her previous pace. Just. Ignore it for now.

Stopping quickly and turning his head around to check on Adele, seeing as she stopped swimming and started coughing and all. As soon as she's back into swimming though he's quick to start kicking his legs madly to get back up to speed. The water flowing over his own wings doesn't really come as too much of a bother, it's different but not disturbing. A little similar to water few fur in a few ways.

She regains her pace within a few strokes, tucking her wings close to her back to avoid that distracting sensation. She's just about caught up with Caius now, and if she's given enough time she'll pass him up. Maybe. If she doesn't have to avoid another cannon ball.

Welp, now he's in second. That kind of sucks, so he tries his best to pick up the pace, narrowly missing another swimmer right in front of him as he paddles by. At best he manages to keep a firm position behind Adele but he's not gathering enough speed to actually pass her.

And there, one stroke more, two, and Adele's hand touches the far wall. She pulls herself back up, breathing a little hard. Further incentive to quit smoking, even though she has for the most part. She slicks her hair back and blinks at the wall next to her, fully expecting Caius to be waiting.

Shortly after Adele finishes Caius comes splashing in, not even noticing whether he's won or lost at this point. Though he isn't noticing much of anything really, given how focused he is on swimming as fast as he can. Sadly, this leads to him slamming his head into the poolside and recoiling quickly to hold his head whilst still underwater.

"Caius?" She turns, frowns and then jumps as he slams into the side of the pool, leaning down to pull him up with one arm and run her other hand over the top of his head, looking for any bruises. "That is one way to stop."

Blinking and staring for a moment. That poolside came out of nowhere! It seems he's alright though, more shocked than anything. "Not the best way, probably won't be trying that again." Rubbing his head a little where he slammed into the side.

"Good. I would worry if you did." Adele manages a soft chuckle, pulling back once she's certain Caius has endured no injury. She rests her arms on the side of the pool, smiling over at him. "Well...I don't know who won, but I cannot say I care."

"That was pretty fun huh? Pretty sure it was you who got there first in the end." Or at least he thinks so anyway, these last few seconds are kind of a blur now. "If there weren't so many people here and it was a straight race then maybe things would have been different."

"Of that I have no doubt Caius. Thank you for the race." Adele pulls herself up and out of the pool, wings fluffing out to dry themselves. "Put some ice on that before you sleep tonight, yes? It will help with any swelling."

Giving Adele another wave as she gets out of the pool, for now he's going to stay in and mess around in the water a little more. "Sure, it probably isn't that bad or anything though. I'll put some ice on it for awhile." It's not like it's going to swell up too badly or anything, surely. It just stings a lot right now.

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