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Okay-- OKAY, OKAY, hang on, I got it!

All right, get back.

_{[The sound of big reptilian feet plodding backwards through wet sand can be heard as the camera shows a wobbly view of.... Sunny the Togekiss standing on an appropriately sunny Cianwood beach. The water's lapping at the shore, the sky is bright blue, it's totally beautiful.]

[A PERFECT day to test out the new, hard-earned skill gotten from beating Chuck in a furious fist-fight (and some obligatory after-battle arm-wrestling): Fly.]

[Perched precariously on the back of the big white marshmallow-bird is Heather, kneeling and holding onto the thick white plumage with both hands. She's got a determined expression.]}

Okay. Let's give it a try. I-- no, Dad, it's gonna be FINE, that's why I'm practicing on the BEACH, remember? Sand is soft!

OKAY.

Ready, girl?

Let's-- oh shit aw HELL--

_{[With some gentle but powerful WHOMPS, the Togekiss had begun to serenely flap its pillowy wings and take off. ... Without Heather, because Heather has no idea how the hell to ride a flying thing and was promptly jostled off by the wing motion.]

[Touching down again, Sunny trills and lovingly sits upon the face-down Heather like any caring bird mother might with a stupid bird baby that crash-landed after trying to fly.]}

... Okay.

This could take a little practice.

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Yeah, and then he'd be able to say 'I told you so'.

So, yeah.

That's out.

...Of course, even on the beach you are quite lucky to merely have sand in your mouth, considering the Krabbies.

What, you think I didn't already have to do some convincing just to get him to let me try it over the beach?

You should have offered to place a few mattresses there. I doubt it would have helped you much, but it certainly would have convinced him more easily.

That would require us to own mattresses.

Or steal them from the inn.

And I think Dad'd take even more issue with that than the Krabbies.

The Cianwood inn has so few visitors, they might be willing to lend them to you. Or rent them, perhaps.

Pre-tty sure that no self-respecting inn would lend its mattresses out to be dragged out onto the wet sand.

No matter how few visitors.

...They truly should care more about their clients' safety. Accidents they could have prevented would be bad publicity.

I dunno, if I ran an inn and some idiot came up to me and asked if they could drag a mattress outside because they were gonna be a dumbass and jump off the top of a building and wanted something to land on, I'd tell 'em to get the hell off my property.

Not my problem if they're jeopardizing their own safety.

Hospitality is far from what it used to be. Baron's innkeeper would always allow us to use his older mattresses to play, when my friends and I were younger.

[...That would be because you were the king's ward, you silly man.]

Honestly, I'd hate to be the maid who had to clean up after somebody who dragged a mattress out onto the beach.

I mean, seriously.

Screw hospitality, I'd be like, GET OUT.

_{[Of course, Heather's worked various menial jobs throughout most of her teenage years. Nothing like being a maid, but enough to be understandably dead-eyed at the thought.]}

...I must admit that we only took them out on the street, and not on sand. Perhaps that would have earned us a different reaction.

Depends on how nasty the streets are.

Our street cleaners are paid handsomely, as long as they work well. The streets rarely stay dirty.

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