#fenixtj

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Sir Buce guards exit of the trods, then blinks as a great wave of thunder approaches

"BEACH PARTY!" Ariel declares...

"Wait, we should bring Neema..."

"Who'se Neema?"

"She's the Adult Troubadour, well she and Bevera.." Ariel says "She knows EVERY Song about the sea.. I'll get her!" racing off

Romana is much bigger now, but it won't stop her from trying to get into a beach bag

"Ramona!"

Tail flicks from the bag. IF she hold sstill no one will notice

"Oh she's adorable" Marion looks dizzy, all that glamour on the trods, she needed help but she's better now

Neema shows up "We're going to the Beach?"

"Yes" Ariel beams "Because Ellie is AWESOME!"

"Ramona, you will not like the beach..."

"Here..." Marion Marion bends odwn and meows at the cat. Who looks startled. Then Ramona meows back. Are they.. talking? Man, Kinian get some of the best fae gifts

And Romana huffs and rubs against Ellie's legs, because she loves her, but at the same time, didn't want to go to the beach anyway

"Ramona's beautiful" Marion Emmy marion observes

"She is. Mamacita is very pretty, too. Can you talk to all animals, or just cats?"

"All animals, but it drains glamour, and as I'm kinian I can't make my own, but that's okay, that itme on the trods filled me up. Glad I had your help up there" A look "And Salma' and holger's and ..well, Ariel too but she's a DeBuke so I don't have to say thanks to her" A grin at Ariel

Ariel sticks her tongue out at Marion Marion athen laughs

"Don't be silly, we can all speak to Ramona. "Oh, pet me, no one fed me, what's that, I will climb on it. Oh help help!" Salma translates.

"We don't have a lot of kinain here."

A laugh at Salma's 'translation.'

"No Ramona at the beach." Salma says firmly. "She has her own sand box here, and she does terrible things to it."

Giving the cat a fond pat, and then tsking as her fingers are pawed at!

Laughter...

it looks like someone has provided swim wear, even in troll size

and soon, the crowd of childlings is taken to the nice beach, not the oily beach, Neema watching over them with Coy and Constance

Ellie leads sandcastle building!

Salma declares one castle as a Sand Library, and collects shells for books!

One of the boys moves to help defend the library

But most of them prefer Ellie's set up "is it a scottish , german, or French castle?"

Salma gives the boy a smile. "This is a biblioteca all in espanol, and everyone can come read the books. No matter if they have dinero or no. Even you, Senor Pinchito." She says to a small crab that is exploring a ridge of her sand moat.

Looking thoughtful.

"It's mexicano."

"oooo" This is new and exotic to most of them

"Like Zorro?" another DeBuke asks

"Si! Zorro the Fox!"

This will immediately cause some of the kids to air Fence on the beach

The crab clambers along, seeming to inspect for quality

Salma has fun making little ridges and tunnels for the visitor.

"He is a good visitor, he does not make any noise." A grin.

"True, some of my cousins would yell in the shell"

"He knows better." Ellie's castle bears a rather striking resemblance to Fenix - the open square in the middle, and a series of pools that Ellie is trying to get to hold water.

As she pats and strokes and pours juust a little water in, Ellie sees an image... a flag of corn and wheat crossed, side by side with the Fenix and Riverrvale banners

the flags look tattered, but victorious

Head tilt.

Something... important has happened today, to put somethings in motion. Something.. good

not easy, no, it's never easy

She makes sure to memorize the image. She'll draw it later.

"She's turned into a seal!" Someone yells excited. The DeBukes, naturally, do not know Selkies well. Iowa is not known for Beaach front property

And a troubadour who turns ihnto a seal is.. just neat