What Jonothon knew about canoeing could be summed up in very few words: There is a boat. There are paddles. Somehow, you use one in order to propel the other, and pray you don't fall in.
Not that he was particularly worried about falling in. Fears of drowning were pretty much obliterated along with his need to breathe. And anyhow, there were lifejackets. Lifejackets which, he had to note, looked absolutely ridiculous.
//The bright orange'll be a good look on yer, luv,// he mused, leaning over the edge of the wharf to peer into the canoe.
[For the daaaate. Stuck here so as to not risk breaking the Kellerman's posts. I'm done spamming the flist today, promise!]
- By the Lake at Kellerman's, Thursday Afternoon
2009-10-16 12:28 am (UTC) (Link)
She was not exactly an expert, but she was undaunted as she started the process of guiding the boat toward the water. "This will work."
2009-10-16 12:32 am (UTC) (Link)
Because they would both so totally drown in two feet of water, here.
With a shrug, he stepped over to the other side of the boat and helped her along.
2009-10-16 12:41 am (UTC) (Link)
A moment later, they were afloat. Didi shot a grin of triumph at Jono. "See? Easy-peasy."
2009-10-16 12:44 am (UTC) (Link)
//And we're floating and everything,// he agreed. //How long der yer suppose it'll take before we manage to upend this thing?//
He reached for a paddle. And kind of stared at it. And stared at it some more.
//I've got my money on 'not long at all.//
2009-10-16 12:54 am (UTC) (Link)
2009-10-16 01:02 am (UTC) (Link)
Look, he never claimed that he wasn't a bit of a brat.
He contemplated the paddle for a moment or two more, and then gave it a stroke through the water. The canoe turned a little. Huh.
2009-10-16 01:21 am (UTC) (Link)
Toward a rock, but still. Movement.
"That's crazy talk," Didi told him, laughing. "Snow? Winter? What weird world did you grow up in?"
2009-10-16 01:27 am (UTC) (Link)
'Deadpool' was pretty much all that one needed to state in order to properly summarize the full extent of the weirdness that his world could achieve.
Oh, 616.
2009-10-16 01:34 am (UTC) (Link)
Oh, that might be fun. Just like the rock that they were still drifting toward.
2009-10-16 01:38 am (UTC) (Link)
Which was weird, if you asked Jono. But then, Jono had somewhat unique measures of weird, from time to time.
2009-10-16 01:43 am (UTC) (Link)
"See, he just thinks I'm his ex-girlfriend," Didi said. "That was even weirder than the girl whose mom is me in bizarro world."
Didi had her own special values for weird.
2009-10-16 01:49 am (UTC) (Link)
//I know there are alternate worlds well enough by now, and I suppose that it only makes sense that there would be a Death for those ones as well, but yes, that does seem... odd.//
Very odd. Huh.
//Fandom Island certainly attracts an interesting variety, doesn't it?//
2009-10-16 01:58 am (UTC) (Link)
They were drifting away from the rock now. This was Victory.
2009-10-16 02:04 am (UTC) (Link)
//It probably picks and chooses. Wakes up at th'beginning of each new semester and wonders to itself, now, how in th'world could it possibly make life a little more insane for its residents?//
2009-10-16 02:09 am (UTC) (Link)