Re: Island Adventure: Abe & Sasha
"Probably impossible." Abe agreed about trying the mundane pants back on after a place like this. "But, staying too long would be just as bad. Ever tried a long vacation before? Numbing." He thought about how normal people had one thing in common with him: they didn't belong on the land or the sea all the time. That was to say, a human couldn't live the normal life forever and it couldn't live the strange, either. He wondered if that had to do with Sasha's struggling. If the normal life wasn't catching onto her the way she wanted it to- so here she was in the tropical paradise with a man who both adored her and could read her mind if he wanted to.
She took his wrist and he twisted his arm so he could hold her hand. Maybe it was a too intimate gesture before either of them acknowledged their feelings, but that had to start somewhere. The water started to rise to his knees and he held her hand a little tighter, like someone anticipating something really wonderful. His body was telling him to go fishy, to swim, but he had to resist. He wanted to stay human for her as long as he could.
"You better be careful. In this kind of darkness, who knows what kind of scallywag would try to take advantage of you." Abe whispered, staying close as she requested. He touched the rocky cave and could almost get a sixth sense about where everything was. Anticipating a jutting out rock from the wall, he pulled Sasha away from it so she didn't hit her head. Closer now: "There was a rock that wanted to headbutt you." A good excuse.