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And Salma is nervously chomping on a daisy again.

"We can't miss Beltaine!"

"It was a bad idea, los siento..."

"There must be enough flowers here for... oh,,, fifty crowns!"

"Let's make crowns while we wait"

"Nuh-uh, it was a good idea. But we're going to make crowns now." Decided, as if it is the obvious choice.

"Si, so many pretty flowers and no one was even using them." A nod.

"Los Siento" Ariel practices and works on a crown

"Did you know there was a Pooka Knight who was a burro?" She offers as she works on a crown that will compliment Dame Ash, and tells them a little about Donkey Hotay.

"He sounds bad ass..." Ariel says, then covers her mouth "I didn't mean Ass like that"

Ellie listens, enraptured. She's not as good at making crowns as Salma, but she pays the pooka good mind.

Salma just giggles, and leaning in, shares a somewhat naughty word in espanol with the other girls, so that if Diego curses, they might catch it next time!

BIG EYES.

Ariel snerks AND blushes

And a Beaumayn knight returns "Ladies, we are going to the beach"

"Yay!"

"Now we don't want to intrude on the Baron Tidemarch's Beltaine, so we're going to take the car. I found out it's closer than I thought. Okay?" Soon they are loaded up in a vehicle with snacks and swimsuits and more. Suntan lotion. LOTS

"Beach!" Ellie makes sure Ariel and Salma and Ash all have flower crowns (She herself is still wearing hers from the morning. Somehow, it has not wilted. Sidhe glamour?)

ARIEL is just BOUNCING with joy

"Okay, settle, please, settle..." The woman says from the driver's seat.. "And keep your selt belts on.. and " they drive

"The seaweed is always greener, in somebody else's lake..." 🎵 Ellie sings, it is OBVIOUSLY time for the entire Little Mermaid soundtrack...

Ariel joins in!

She's an average singer, but on key.

Ariel is a LOVELY singer, though if asked, she'll say Spencer is better

And they pull up to the beach area... and come out

"This way girls, this way.. I asked, this is one of the safer parts of the beach"

Ariel races onto it "YES! It's the ocean! It's.. " Her eyes widen "it's SOOOO BIGGGGG!"

"Thank you for bringing us, Dame Ash." Ellie makes sure, before - "RACE YOU TO THE WATER!"

The sand actually does slow the satyr down a little...

Dame ash smikles "You're welcome.. " She says then calls out "And wear the suntan lotion!"

Salma fusses and tuts over Ellie. "No no, you must cover it all up, blanca, or you'll end up red as senor langosta fresh from the pot!"

Ariel goes out to the waves and ... hooves go into the water And she laughs and jumps back

A sigh. But she dutifully allows the sunblock.

A noble is but a slave to duty!

Once the sidhe is duly coated, Salma is happy to trot along the shoreline, pausing now and again to kneel and peer at this or that. Often it's a rock, but occasionally she finds one of the promised shells, which she treasures in a small heap back at the towels.

Ellie amuses herself by stamping in the wet sand, and making squishy noises with her feet.

Salma finds more shells.. and Ariel, seeing what she is doing, helps " Oh I forgot so sorry..." But she stays in the waves and gets hit at lot and laughs "it knocked me over"

"I wanna get knocked over!"

Ellie will also tussel with the waves!

The waves wrassle with a passion...and are not as cold as the far north waters of Califironia

(okay, really this is a border city, but it's a changelign story so exaggerations are the norm)

Salma finds something very odd in the sand. A chimerical coin. No mortal side to it.

And Ellie sees someone swimming

"Oooh." She plucks out the coin, squinting to get a closer look.

"Ariel, look!" A point at the swimmer.

The fae is a hand some boy about their age, he stare with large wet eyes, and gapes at them.

Eleanor WAVES!

A grin and the boy leaps high into the water.... a tail! He has a tail! And he dives under

"that's not a selkie.." Ariel giglges "He's.. he's not a ... he's a Merguy!"

She is about to squeee