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Post by Silva on Feb 23, 2018 21:52:30 GMT -5
"Mmf."
He knew what that meant.
"You would have liked my grandmother."
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Post by Nina Fortner on Feb 23, 2018 21:53:59 GMT -5
"Tell me about her-" said Nina, strangely eager. Then she felt as though something - it was strangely specific, as if something grabbed her by the ankle and yanked her very sharply underneath the water.
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Post by Silva on Feb 23, 2018 21:55:50 GMT -5
Silva thought she'd stumbled, and rather cruelly, he laughed.
"So enthusiastic--"
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Post by Nina Fortner on Feb 23, 2018 21:57:07 GMT -5
Nina broke through the surface of the water, coughing and understandably a little freaked out. "I have - no idea what that was, it felt like a yank-" she got out as soon as she could.
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Post by Silva on Feb 23, 2018 21:59:24 GMT -5
"A yank?"
He swept around on the crumbling sand with a foot for some crevice or obstacle, anyway. Or a stray crab.
"Not a pinch?"
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Post by Nina Fortner on Feb 23, 2018 22:00:22 GMT -5
"A yank, I don't understand it," she said, coughing out the rest of the salt water from her lungs. "But please - tell me about her."
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Post by Silva on Feb 23, 2018 22:04:40 GMT -5
"She was a tough old baggage -- she'd had to be, to get through the war. She wasn't a kind woman, but she was very capable."
Silva pressed his hair back, gesturing as if to catch Nina up in the crook of his arm."
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Post by Nina Fortner on Feb 23, 2018 22:05:35 GMT -5
"Ah, so you have clearly taken after her," said Nina, fitting easily into his arms.
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Post by Silva on Feb 23, 2018 22:54:18 GMT -5
"Just the way she'd want it. She did the lion's share of the work in raising me, and now I'm the specimen of manhood you see before you, hmm?"
Twenty years ago he would have been swimming naked and they could truly discuss specimens of manhood.
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Post by Nina Fortner on Feb 23, 2018 22:55:16 GMT -5
"If your strong and capable grandmother raised you why are you so awful to women?"
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Post by Silva on Feb 23, 2018 22:56:46 GMT -5
Silva sucked his teeth.
"You are much better to look at than my grandmother. Why do you say that as if I'm not cruel to men?"
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Post by Nina Fortner on Feb 23, 2018 22:57:51 GMT -5
"Well, for one, I suspect your grandmother didn't give a rat's ass about men."
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Post by Silva on Feb 23, 2018 23:01:56 GMT -5
"If she ever knew what I'd done with men, she would have dropped dead."
That was one difference between her and the old girl, at least. Silva swam placidly.
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Post by Nina Fortner on Feb 23, 2018 23:03:50 GMT -5
Nina snort-laughed ungracefully.
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Post by Silva on Feb 23, 2018 23:04:31 GMT -5
"Call her a woman of her time."
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