(open) welcome to the exsilium transport swim team!

[crocodilesmiles]

Date & Time: August 6th, Afternoon
Location: Hold Training Facilities Swimming Pool
Characters: open to all! heard of it, completely ignorant, stop on by! threadjack! cr!
Summary: The first meeting of the Exsilium Transport Swim Team
Warnings: N/A

By the time the afternoon rolled around, Collette was down and rearranging the towels on the bleachers by the far wall. All those invited were either going to show up or not -- and new people might stop by hearing voices from inside the arched hall of the indoor pool.

Either way, it was a great distraction for her, and she hoped it would be useful for those who wanted to learn or practice swimming, or just have fun diving after rings and pulling them up off the bottom of the pool. Not to mention, maybe people would start diving!

And so it was that the person arranging the whole thing sat in her suit in her borrowed wheelchair (manual when she'd come over in her electrical) at the poolside, examining the lifeguard whistle around her neck with the stopwatch, and leaning over to poke at the lifeguard buoy.

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[crocodilesmiles]

Collette eyed the water, tapping her fingers on her stopwatch where it rested against her chest. She shouldn't spend much time in the water to today, but she refused to sit by and do nothing, let alone fail to show up! Still recovering from her three day bout of Van Winkle Syndrome, she at least has better color and looks healthier, if thin.

Besides, with her hair all up under a swimmer's cap, and goggles resting on her head, she also looks like she's business. The one piece bathing-suit was simply par for the course, along with the towel she sat on, and the one she had arranged on the ground hanging partly over the pool's edge.

"I wonder if we'll want more than two lanes..."

[payback]

"You're optimistic, huh?"

It could have been more disparaging, but Rin just sounded dry - ironic, considering the circumstances. She sat down on a poolside bench next to Collette and looked around with an expression of (mostly) wariness, incongruous with the slight scent of chlorine in the air and the artificially blue depths.

It felt like being in a spaceship...

[crocodilesmiles]

"I've been accused of that a lot!" she admitted with a laugh. Watching Rin sit, Collette offered her a friendly smile. "Still, if people do want to swim laps, it's different than just goofing around. You don't want to worry about running into people, you know?"

[payback]

"Well, what do you want to do? Is it going to be serious or just for playing around?" Self-consciously, Rin kept her gaze from sliding to Collette's legs. Tactless as it was she wondered how Collette would manage swimming. There must have been a way she did, if she was suggesting a swim team...?