poison paradise (o)

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Today’s weather was a bit of a let down, though other people might argue otherwise. The sunlight was annoyingly brilliant and harsh on Adelaide’s sensitive eyes, driving her to retreat to somewhere a bit further down the beach, under the large patch of shade casted by an unusually large stripped umbrella.

Adelaide was sprawled out on the beach chair in a bikini she was too inmodest to cover, sipping all too leisurely on a fruity drink as she pored over the large sheets of paper on her lap.

Intricate designs filled up most of the page. The ink had faded and smudged here and there from years of use, though still in fairly good condition, good enough for anyone to match the pattern with the grand establishment not too far from where she sat. It was the blueprint for the casino, before its reconstruction decade ago. A little something she – one of the maids, actually, but who cares about technicalities - stumbled upon during Spring Cleaning. She hadn’t gotten bored enough to sit down and actually read it till now. And beneath it was the blueprint for the new building.

As much as the place tried to match the warm atmosphere of the rest of the island, a casino was still... well, a casino. Full of dirty secrets the owners were too eager to hide. Although it looked seemed very different from back in the days, the basic structure remained the same. If she was lucky enough (which she usually was), there would be a secret chamber somewhere that the architect failed to notice during the reconstruction, sitting there to be discovered. Just the thought of it brought a grin to her lips.

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[atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,450,true][atrb=style,background-color: #EBEBEB;] ◤ ◥ TAGS Lynn V. WORDS 396 NOTES Hey there. The shine of the sun sizzled the air of Lavendula Island, the sand beneath the Merman’s bare feet stinging him with the heat and sticking his clothes to his skin. But wiping the sweat of off his brow, Fenryl let out a sharp exhale before heaving himself out of the ocean’s shallow depths. Striding onwards down the beach, he let he cool salt water wash to his ankles with every wave. After all, snow or shade, rain or shine, it wasn’t like Fenryl had a choice when it came to working if he wanted to eat that day. Today’s job was heaving coconuts from the beach trees into baskets to be picked up later and brought to the resort’s harbour for shipping to the mainland. Whilst he appreciated the job that allowed quick access to the ocean, it was still annoying how he had to stop his work periodically to run and soak in the water, especially when he was carrying quite a few stacked baskets. Shirtless with his usual magenta trousers rolled up to the knees and his long purple hair pinned up, the Merman could give little regard for his appearance whilst he was on a fairly uninhabited part of the island. Everyone would be in the resort, soaking up its air conditioning and drinking cool fruit drinks. Damn, he could do with one of those now. But still, he never thought about what to do should he encounter anybody. Would he simply nod and walk past? Stop and take a break in the nearby water to converse with them? Ignore them? As luck would have it, his decision was made for him as he noticed a human clad in a rather revealing bikini, resting underneath an umbrella which was right behind a coconut tree. “’Scuse me ma’am, I need to move the umbrella so I can get to the coconuts behind you,” he addressed her with a nod and slight bow, focusing his dim grey gaze on her face. She seemed to be reading some sort of heavy laden document of sorts, eyes passing over it briefly to acknowledge it. But it was none of his business, so if she would oblige, he’d begin to pull out the umbrella to move it further down the beach to access the trees that grew on the apex of the beach where grass began to grow.

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