tushanshu | Verse 05 -- Video

[This takes place after they've been in the warm waters for a bit.

This is the most excited, happy Jehan you have ever seen. Someone heard from a kedan about the water and he's ecstatic. He's from Cannes, from the shore. He's missed going to the beach, and now he gets to.

He's in R's suite, so you might hear the drunk bitching about an overly excited puppy of a poet, but Jehan does not care. He does not care at all.]

We, apparently, are now in the warmest waters the kedan have ever seen, and they are a wonderful, clear blue. Therefore, I am insisting that all of our friends join Grantaire, Bryn, and myself for a trip down to the edge for swimming. We will be leaving as soon as we've supplies for a full day at the edge. If you'd like to join us, please meet us in the Wood Sector.

[He grins and starts to shut off the feed before remembering something. He blushes]

Ah...with the reprieve we've been granted, it might quickly become...indecent for young children or particularly gentle women. Just...as a warning.

[The modifier on "women" is because of Bryn. Jehan shuts the feed off, yelling something off screen at R.]

((ooc: This is going in a separate log here in a second because there is going to be alcohol, smoking, and likely nakedness because men didn't have actual "swimsuits" until the 1840s and these guys predate that. So.))

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[Oh boy. Jehan flushes]

Ah...it will be mostly men, mademoiselle.

Yes, I think I got that implication. I've got swimming with men before. [ Noh and Percy, for starters. ]

I...do not know how else to explain it to you without being completely improper.

Well why don't you explain it to me in a way that's improper? I don't see what you could do to offend me from the other end of a console.

There is no way, I'm afraid.

[And Bryn, overhearing this conversation as she helps pack for the trip to the shell's edge, decides to save Jehan the trouble. Carefully, she does her best to edge Jehan away from the camera enough to interject:]

What he is hesitant to say outright is that we'll be swimming in the nude and so it would be best for children not to join, or anyone who would be uncomfortable among so many in a state of complete undress.

[ Silence

silence

raucous laughter. ]

Why would that be uncomfortable?

[ Asks the girl who flew in on someone in nothing but a towel and didn't bat an eyelash. ]

[Grinning, Bryn just shrugs.]

They're from a different culture where I expect "proper" ladies don't do such things.

Of course. Is there some reason the standards are different for men and women?

I couldn't say, myself, you would have to pry the answers out of one of them. But as you seem to have no objection to casual nudity in a mixed group you would be welcome to join us. I don't think that I've seen you since I first arrived months ago.

With the way the water is today, I'd love to. We can catch up on how things have been for you since you got here.

I'd love that. Bring whatever you think you'll need and we'll take a cart to the shoreline together!

I don't need anything. Where should I meet you?

Here, since I know you can be quick, join us here.

[She pings the location of where they are now, Grantaire's suite.]

I've got to get back to packing so I'll see you when you arrive!

[Jehan buts in here]

It's not that, necessarily. Men and women just rarely swim in the same place unless they are close, and men do not swim nude when women are about.

[However, underwear is still indecent and wine will make everyone naked eventually]

Why not? Is there some secret about your anatomy? [ No really she does not understand ]

Modesty, mademoiselle. It's immodest.

I don't get it. What's there to be modest about? Everyone's body is different.

...if you do not know, I do not know how to explain.

[ Sigh. Some Earth things she just won't ever understand. ]

I guess it must be a cultural thing.

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