[OTA] Day at the Beach

[falsepretences]

It wasn't, he supposed, really a beach yet, but the rhythmic movement of the tides were already starting to erode the the grace and soil and leave something sandier in it's place. Just at the edge for now, but in time it would become a mix of sand and stones, with only patches of the grass that was currently blanketing the ground in between patches of snow.

He kicked a pebble into the...well, sea, he supposed, and eyed it before looking out at the island with the door.

"Just when you thought things couldn't get weirder..."

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[falsepretences]

Somehow he was more disturbed by the sudden body of water, but buildings had been popping up and disappearing for weeks now. This is a completely new thing.

Still, her words make him tilt his head to one side and raise his eyebrows. "What do you mean, hear them? Like ghosts?"

[jokeswithknives]

The little Joker nodded almost hesitantly. "They whisper," she whispered herself, hands to her lips. "So many voices. Many-many. Delah." A fitting word from her books.

Juliette tapped her throat three times, staring out over the water. "Tower-tremors-water-whispers..." Her sing-song voice floated up and around before fading and she looked back up at Jordan. "...scary sometimes, Mr. Spade."

[falsepretences]

Was he supposed to comfort her? Because, really, he was probably the worst at this kind of thing.

"Probably best to stay away, then," he says. "As much as you can, at least."