in lieu of beach (open)

[blondfragility]

Who: Ken & OPEN.
What: Skatin' on the basin.
When: Early November, daylight hours only !!!
Where: The basin.

Content Warnings: Good old fashioned FUN. Do not come here if you don't want to smile and laugh.

( when life gives you lemons, you ice skate )

Ken really doesn't go anywhere without his rollerblades. He'd found them here, tucked away in the back of the closet at the Mojo Snowjo Casa Dreamhouse, and had been delighted. Until he remembered that he couldn't really use them here with all the snow, and that it's not safe to rollerblade without knee pads and elbow pads. The whole thing had left him a little bummed until, one day picking through one of the stores, he came across ice skates.

That's almost like rollerblading and just as fun.

On a day where the wind's pretty calm and the sun is shining, Ken and the skates make their way to the frozen basin. Luckily, March taught him how to tie laces pretty early on after arriving, so Ken doesn't have too many problems getting the skates tied up nice and snug. Anyone who might be down in that area of Milton will have no problem spotting him, skating around the frozen surface as if they're not all stuck in a wasteland that's trying to kill them at every turn. When he spots you, he waves, motioning for you to come out on to the ice whether you have skates or not. And if you don't, well, he'll just skate back to the edge of the basin to talk to you, instead.

Comments

[marmoron]

[ keith doesn't make a habit of venturing down to the basin often -- not after his near-fatal encounter with that monster a couple of weeks ago. not because he's afraid, exactly, but because it's unbelievably embarrassing that he almost became a victim of that thing in the first place.

but when a set of rabbit tracks leads down toward the lake, keith gives himself a mental kick and pursues. food is food and all that. nevertheless, he freezes when he spots a figure on the lake, and only relaxes again when he realizes that it'd be fucking weird for a monster to be ice skating of all things. certainly helps that the guy seems vaguely familiar -- like he might have seen the dude around town.

puffing out a heavy exhale, keith comes closer to the edge of the lake and calls out: ]

You probably shouldn't be out here alone, you know?

[blondfragility]

You're out here alone!

( Ken feels like he should point out the obvious. He skates his way closer and adjusts his hat a bit. )

But now we're not alone, we're together.

[marmoron]

....

[ okay, so ken might have a valid point there, but keithis still gonna give him a raised eyebrow. ]

I'm not alone. I've got my knife.

[ don't question this flawless logic kthx. ]

There was a monster out here not that long ago. You got something to protect yourself with?

[blondfragility]

( Ken looks at Keith for a moment, then looks down at his skates, each one with its own knife-like blade on the bottom. )

I've got two knives.