no thank you is how it should have gone, I should stay strong
"Oooooh, bioscience," Carlo echoes as he watches Fern create an eerie little face in the surf that slowly melts back into the inky waves. He doesn't know she's incorrect and there's no one immediately available to put them to rights (though there are plenty of grown-ups nearby, his fathers included plus one projection probably) so this is what it will be for the foreseeable future.
They'd been told a number of rules explicitly - and sternly, in a way that suggests they should actually consider listening this time - including not touching any of the bonfires, not going into the water past their ankles, not wandering off into the dark and not drinking anything they aren't given by a parent. Those rules, however, did not include don't eat glowing algae.
"I don't know," he admits, flashing Calan the sort of grin that directly translates to finding out one way or another. "I bet if I put some in my mouth and chew, you should be able to see if it glows, right?"
They'd been told a number of rules explicitly - and sternly, in a way that suggests they should actually consider listening this time - including not touching any of the bonfires, not going into the water past their ankles, not wandering off into the dark and not drinking anything they aren't given by a parent. Those rules, however, did not include don't eat glowing algae.
"I don't know," he admits, flashing Calan the sort of grin that directly translates to finding out one way or another. "I bet if I put some in my mouth and chew, you should be able to see if it glows, right?"
but I'm weak, and what's wrong with that? boy oh boy I love it when I fall for that
