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[neveraskedtwice]

It's a longer walk to the smaller waterfall, which, so close to so many homes, generally seems crowded to Emma. She can deal with the people, though, and she doesn't mind the exercise. It's preferable to the other one anyway, so close to Jean's house; she'll be damned if she's returning to the scene of that particular crime anytime soon. Or ever

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[asinglechange]

"I happen to find it to be refreshing," Alice chirps, swinging down from a tree to land next to the pool of the waterfall. What had been going on before she'd decided to return to the ground went unseen by her and she's just fine with that. It's one thing to invade someone's supposed privacy; it is quite another to know what they were up to before you do it.

"Totally unpredictable. It's fun."

[neveraskedtwice]

Of course a girl who swings about in trees would think that. Emma, however, isn't some kind of a monkey.

"Yes," she says, "right up until everything in creation decides it's time for lunch and you're the main course." And even before that, she was less than enthralled.

[asinglechange]

Alice lets out a snort of laughter. It's more of a giggle than anything else, but somehow the notion of being on anyone's food chain cracks her up.

"I would like to be the cheese course. Maybe the fruit, but I'm certainly not going to be an entrée. And besides, most scary things are scared of something else."

[neveraskedtwice]

"I'm sure I sympathize somewhere deep, deep down inside," Emma deadpans, staring at the girl as if she's got two heads before she starts making her way out of the water. Of all the inane responses to provide.

[asinglechange]

The woman's attitude is not about to deter Alice from keeping up her bright end of the conversation. She lived with Rosalie for far too long to get down because of something biting that a blonde said to her.

"With what? Your desire to secretly be a puff pastry or that something is scared of you?"

Alice is hoping for the latter. It'd be a nice surprise.

[neveraskedtwice]

"With your lifelong desire to be cheese," Emma bites out. "No, I was merely being facetious. Let them be scared of me, they're fish; it's not as if I care." She barely considers the feelings of her few human companions. She's not about to stop for wildlife.

[asinglechange]

"Ah, now you're assuming that this has been a desire for that long." Alice wags her finger refraining from saying the adage about what happens when people assume. She's just not feeling it.

"Then I hope you never wind up at a meet and greet with a shark."

[neveraskedtwice]

"I've met my share," Emma deadpans. She still can't be bothered. Once on land, she reaches for her towel, patting down the offending wound. Antibiotics would be wise, she knows, but she's not sure if she can be bothered to go to the clinic, either. "I still don't particularly care."

[asinglechange]

Alice's opinion is that not caring is just a cheap cover for caring a whole hell of a lot. But she's not that sort of stupid to actually voice her opinion out loud. That's like putting her head in the mouth of a bear and saying it looks roomy.

"No one says you had to," she grins. "Care that is."

[neveraskedtwice]

"Luckily for all of us."

There are few things Emma cares about, but nothing seems quite as important as what she's left behind. It's a strange thought when she's spent a lifetime deliberately doing the leaving.

"Do you always just drop out of trees like that?"

[asinglechange]

"No."

That's not to say that Alice has never done it before. She just tends to pass trees by rather than jump from them but today it felt right to do a little climbing around.

"I was just bored."