06-22-2016, 09:36 AM
The water was enticing, but like Nox, Dane was content where he was. They continued to trade showing off, like a duel of mischief, for some time. And after half an hour Dane was genuinely chuckling between sips of his drink.
A member of the resort staff hurried out, and by the ghostly look on her face, Dane surmised that trouble was brewing.
"Alejandro! The news!" She barreled behind the counter and fumbled at the controls for the bar's screen system. The bartender paused in his work as the image of a CCD press conference was projected.
They all watched. Dane especially. But so also did the other guests of the bar.
The female employee squeezed the bartender's arm. She was afraid.
Looking around, expressions varied from disbelief to awe to fear. Dane's jaw was loose, however. Such wasn't new information to him. But absorbing everyone else's reaction was fascinating.
He turned to Nox, but carefully lowered his voice. "Is it true? Did you have the sickness?" Dane recounted his own, and the memory briefly darkened his features. It had not been pleasant.
A member of the resort staff hurried out, and by the ghostly look on her face, Dane surmised that trouble was brewing.
"Alejandro! The news!" She barreled behind the counter and fumbled at the controls for the bar's screen system. The bartender paused in his work as the image of a CCD press conference was projected.
They all watched. Dane especially. But so also did the other guests of the bar.
The female employee squeezed the bartender's arm. She was afraid.
Looking around, expressions varied from disbelief to awe to fear. Dane's jaw was loose, however. Such wasn't new information to him. But absorbing everyone else's reaction was fascinating.
He turned to Nox, but carefully lowered his voice. "Is it true? Did you have the sickness?" Dane recounted his own, and the memory briefly darkened his features. It had not been pleasant.