Alligator Cabin, Alcove B4

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was quite done with this nonsense, thank you.

After a few bags had appeared around her feet during First Aid, continually tripping her up, she'd stomped back to the cabin, yanked the bags out from earlier, and promptly gone and tossed them in fire pits around the cabins. Sheilding herself didn't seem to stop them from them from appearing, or to stop her from chucking the smaller ones out the window.

The giant box marked 'Warning: Hazardous Materials' with the names of her family scrawled on it was too heavy to lift, so it got a blanket thrown over it, and Emma was going to sit on it and read her book, occasionally tossing another handbag outside.

Take that, Fandom.

[For those that know who they be, plz.]

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[glacial_queen]

"I'm plenty old enough to be neurotic if I want to," Karla muttered. "And it's not like I'm wrong. It's not like I--"

I DON'T GET ANY CHOICES IN LIFE and DUTY tumbled down. "Yeah. That."

[icecoldfrost]

"Bull~shit," Emma sang, picking up CHOICES and pitching out the window. "See? I just made a choice. There's always choices, they just sometimes suck."

[glacial_queen]

"Right, so my choices are 'become the Queen' or 'let Hobart continue ruling.' Emma, that's only a choice by a technicality," Karla said. Then leaned over and poked at the giant box in the room. She didn't try to lift the blanket though. She wasn't insane.

[icecoldfrost]

"Don't give me that. You want to rule, you just feel guilty about not doing it right now, even though you know waiting is the right thing to do," she said crossly. She didn't swat at Karla's hand, but it was a near thing. "You're making the choice to get stronger, and not make yourself an easy target. You're choosing to learn about new things, and expand your horizons so that you're the best Queen you can be. Those are choices, Karla. You could hide in Kaeleer. You could try and fight Hobart now. But you aren't."

"And if you hate being Queen? You ask your friends to find a suitable apprentice or replacement. It's not going to be fun or easy, but the worthwhile things rarely are."

[glacial_queen]

"It isn't that easy," Karla said. "Queens are rare. Even before Hobart took power. And the strength to rule a Territory makes them all targets, no matter how young they are."

She brushed her hair from her face and frowned. "This is all stupid," she bitched. "We should be talking about fun things instead." She tapped her fingers on Emma's box for a moment and withdrew. "How's Jack?"

[icecoldfrost]

"He's Jack, of course," Emma replied fondly as she reached over to toy with Karla's hair. "Impossible one moment, irresistible the next."

"How are things with young Mr. Cooper?"

[glacial_queen]

"I'm not sure," Karla confessed. "Sometimes weeks go by without me seeing him, but as soon as we do, it's like no time has passed at all. It's confusing and frustrating."

Mostly because Karla didn't know what to make of it. "And...I think I'm flirting with other males. I don't mean to, but...I think the male-female Kaeleeran dynamic is different than the dyanmic here. There's more distance here." Sorry, Emma. Karla's groping for an explanation for an issue she's only just discovered.

[icecoldfrost]

"I noticed that the boys from your world tend to be more cuddly and touchy-feel-y than boys here," Emma commented dryly. Which was true, if your version of cuddly was Lucivar's verbal teasing, which it was, for Emma. It was an affection-thing.

[glacial_queen]

"Exactly!" Karla said, relieved that Emma had gotten it. "Here, if you so much as laugh with a male, the radio says you're flirting. And people don't touch as much here. I was grateful for that, when I first arrived but now...it feels off."

[icecoldfrost]

"If I share a laugh with a boy, I probably am flirting with him," Emma pointed out. "But that's just me."

She shrugged, and just kept petting Karla's hair. "I don't know. We're taught from an early age not to trust strangers, not to touch anyone, in case they take it the wrong way or don't like it."

[glacial_queen]

"And the boyos will freeze out someone if they don't know anyone," Karla said, nodding. "Most of the time, they don't like to be touched by females they don't know. And are even worse when unknown males come around their females. But once you're part of the group...then touching and hugs and pettings and laughter. It's just the dynamic."