(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.

Comments

[debtor]

[ Quickly trying to think of something to say that won't raise any questions he doesn't want raised, ] Well, he calls me 'Walker.' I think he likes to maintain an air of professionalism, because we're colleagues, you see.

[crocodilesmiles]

You don't do that with Lavi or Lenalee.

... Does Lavi even have a last name he goes by?

[debtor]

[Good...

question.]

...Not that I know of! I think he's just 'Lavi.'

[crocodilesmiles]

Don't people usually have surnames when you're from?

[debtor]

[ A shrug. Allen didn't have a last name until he was ten; he's never questioned Lavi's apparent lack of one. ] I suppose most do, but not everyone uses them.

[Perhaps Lavi considers Bookman to be his family name, he's never asked. But he refrains from mentioning it. He's not sure what Lavi's told her.]

[crocodilesmiles]

( She refrains from making the same conjecture out loud; only because she thinks it, and doesn't want to provide reason for others to turn it back on her.

Since all she's ever gone by here is Collette. )

Do you like that he calls you Walker?

[debtor]

I don't mind it. Is it strange, to call someone by their surname?

[crocodilesmiles]

It's weird.

( She says without hesitation -- then she giggles. )

Where I'm from, it's weird. I mean, it sounds much more formal and distant, you know? Last names are for people who are older than you, or in positions you respect. Like calling you Dr. Walker! Or Professor Walker. Or Walker, Texas Ranger.

( What she wouldn't give for a modern kid to be around in this instant! )

[debtor]

'Walker Texas Ranger'? [IS THAT A NAME...]

[crocodilesmiles]

He's a great man of the law.

( On campy television that played at the hospital sometimes. )