[Vacation! Open thread]

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Characters: Rinoa, OPEN
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: It's time to hit the beach! Get out your bikinis and swimming trunks, girls and boys. Yes, even you, Squall. Party style! Feel free to threadhop, start your own threads etc.
Location: Costa Faguita
Date: May, 1804
Warnings: None

This was the life. Rinoa relaxed on a sun lounger, soaking up the rays. Behind her sunglasses, her eyes were closed. She could hear the waves lapping gently against the beach in the background. It was as though the dragon invasion had never happened.

A group of holidaymakers passed by, laughing and joking as they headed for the sea. Rinoa sat up to take a look around. Hmm. Maybe it was time she went for a swim. But first she needed to reapply her sun cream. She smoothed back her hair and picked up her bottle of sun lotion. Now was there anyone around who might want to help? 

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[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

Rinoa blinked and scowled as a familiar figure came into view. She'd never quite gotten over Balthier's snubbing of her. Besides, wasn't he supposed to be on the run for murder?

Pushing down her sunglasses to look at him properly - yes, it really was the sky pirate - Rinoa called over to him.

"Hey, are you looking for Selphie?"

[xbalthierx.livejournal.com]

Hearing a vaguely familiar voice, Balthier lifted his gaze, smiling lightly at Rinoa. He recalled them both being particularly bitter towards each other, but he wasn't the kind of person to just hold a grudge.

Time went by a lot quicker if you sat thinking about how much you disliked someone, and Balthier wanted to savour every minute he could. Grudges were a waste of effort.

"Not particularly. Mjrn would be the first person I wish to see, though I'd like to see Selphie." He needed to check his partner's young sister was well first.

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

"You're in luck. Mjrn's here too."

Rinoa paused, wondering whether to say anything else. In truth, she'd forgotten exactly what it was that had caused a rift between them in the first place. All that was left was a vague sort of dislike. If the problem had been closer, Rinoa would have confronted him about it. As it was, she didn't know what to confront him about.

[xbalthierx.livejournal.com]

"Oh? Well, then I shall seek her out unless Fran already found her."

He barely even remembered it either, but he was most certainly going to bring it up, because he didn't want any animosity between him and anyone, especially not a friend of Selphie's.

Clearing his throat, he crossed his arms. "Rinoa, correct? May I ask; what was it exactly that occurred between you and I that caused this... dislike between us?"

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

Rinoa blinked, sitting up a little straighter. So Balthier had brought it up himself. "Um... I can't remember," she confessed sheepishly. "But you're a pirate, and I heard you were wanted for murder and I just thought you were one of the bad guys."

She shrugged. Stubbornness had caused Rinoa to cling to this opinion for so long, but she felt that stubbornness fizzling away in the summer heat. "But you're Selphie's friend and Mjrn's friend, and neither of them are stupid, so I guess you can't be that bad, right?"