EXTERIOR: A beach on the southwestern edge of the continent, well past and wilds and outside Triangle Valley.

  The beach is poputed exclusively by adventurers- a css of generally healthy looking, well-sculpted individuals. Almost all cd in some kind of armor or robes.

  PRESENT: THE GIRL (wearing a maroon ballcap, grey sweater, and shorts. Her clothes are wet after her sudden swim.) THE BOY (wearing flip-flops and trunks. His clothes are also a little wet.)

  TIME: The sun is starting to set.

  The girl stood triumphantly over her test kill, her damp sweater and skin coated in the old man's blood (there wasn't all that much spsh, she rubbed most of it on herself.) Her spear melted and dissolved back into magic, and the old man's pilr had long since colpsed.

  "AHAHHAAHHAH" The girl shout-scream-ughed, her eyes wide and both arms raised over her head, her hands balled into fists so tight that her fingernails drew blood. "GET ABSOLUTELY" (various obscenities) "YOU UGLY OLD BASTARD!"

  She stomped her foot harshly into his limp and lifeless head, repeatedly stamping his useless frame into the sand. "THATS! WHAT YOU GET! AAHAHAHAHAH! NOW YOU'LL NEVER INTERRUPT MY STUPID BEACH ADVENTURE AGAIN YOU DIRTY LITTLE SPUZ SUCKLER!"

  We don't know what that st thing is referring to, but it's clearly meant to be very offensive.

  "AHAHAHAHHAHA!" She continued to cackle madly, her chest heaving with post-mortem thrill. "HAH!.. HAH... HA..."

  Slowly, surely, her wide, manic eyes began to narrow.

  Nobody was celebrating the man's death. Nobody was gasping in utter disgust at her barbarity or offensive remarks.

  Why?

  She was being SO rude! So crass! A man was DEAD for heck's sake! Comment on it!

  Was it because the guy was gross and deplorable? In that case, they should at LEAST celebrate his death! That'd be better than nothing! You'd think it'd be common courtesy!

  Hmmm... Maybe they just didn't notice. Yes, she should just ugh louder.

  "AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!"

  Nope.

  Uuuugugugughghgh!!!! She went through all the trouble to cover herself on this gross old man's blood, all for NOTHING! What, do they think she just LIKES bathing in gross old man blood!? No! It's weird! This is just sensationalism! Blood-bathing is only fun when it's an animal, or a girl or a younger guy or something! Not stupid dirty-old-gross-old-ugly-old-sand-all-in-his-blood-for-some-reason blood!

  This situation was simply unreasonable! Surely ONE of the adventurers around here should've said something! There were DOZENS!

  With a stern huffing, she turned on her heels, and shifted her bull-like gaze towards the rgest gathering of nearby adventurers, to see what all the non-fuss was about.

  Much to her surprise, this particur group was barely 10 feet away from her. All the more irritating, naturally.

  It was a little over a half-dozen adventurers, mostly taller ones, standing in a circle, all looking down at something. They were visibly amused, delighted by some unseen thing in the midst of their STUPID IRRITATING circle.

  "HEEEEYYY!" The girl shouted, though her voice would end up lost in the sea of casual beach-going.

  "What a strange little creature." Said a smiling man in deep blue robes, lightly stained by the sands and the previous commotion.

  "A peculiar beast, for sure." Said a tall woman with a giddy little grin and heavy pte armor. "I've not seen something so helpless since I slipped into the realm of all that is Fluff."

  "Oi, why're you poking his cheeks so much?" Said a shorter woman standing beside her, her voice much more curious than it was accusatory. "You're gonna scare him."

  "Maybe so, but I'm very certain he isn't going to do anything about it." Said the armored woman, absolute certainty in her voice.

  "Ah! Yeah, you're right, look at 'im!" A young man in dark leather armor remarked with a bit of a ugh, clearly also enjoying the thing's cheeks. "Hah, his eyes look even dumber like this!"

  Soon enough, over half of the adventurers were doing the same. It was an odd occurrence.

  "HEEEEEEEEEEY!" BOLDLY shouted the girl as she stormed over those some 10ish feet, right in the ears of everyone in the pile. A non-zero amount of permanent hearing damage was done this day.

  "AH!" "EGADS!" "BUH!" And other such noises were made by the adventurers, and exactly four of them turned to look at her.

  "I KILLED THE GUY!" She shouted up at them with great anger and indignance, her body leaning forward, her teeth clenched and face scrunched. "LOOK!" She swung her arm back and gestured at the dead lump of man on the sand.

  "Woah!"

  "Ah, evidently!"

  "Oooh, that guy! Shoot, yeah, he killed a lot of people didn't he? Gee, thanks for that, you're a real star!"

  Sayeth the turned adventurers One of them remained silent. Maybe because the third spoke for so long.

  "NEVERMIND WHAT HE DID!" The girl spits out, throwing her arm back towards the lump once more. "LOOK AT HIS BODY! I DESECRATED IT!"

  "Oooh, gross."

  "Yeah, that's quite something."

  "Aw, that's just in poor taste."

  "Yup."

  Hey, they all spoke this time!

  "YES!" Her swung back, and she gestured up at her own body. "AND LOOK! I'M COVERED IN HIS BLOOD, TOO! LOOK AT IT! LOOOOOK!"

  "Well that's just gross."

  They all had pretty much the same opinion, none had any desire to add much more than that.

  "IT'S DISGUSTING! LOOK AT IT!" She stepped closer, and the circle took a step back. They all agreed, it was really quite disgusting. Though for many adventurers, something like tis would not really not be anything special. And even this group showed fairly little interest.

  "UUURGH!" The girl's face reddened. "WHAT'RE YOU EVEN-" She cut herself off, she didn't need to finish the sentence. Instead, she rudely shoved two of them aside, reached her arm into the center, and pulled the boy OUT and AWAY from the adventurers. Somehow, this made a POP-ing sound.

  "i found that scenario very confusing." The boy, whose cheeks (and only his cheeks) had reddened some and were visibly poked confessed.

  "WHO CARES!" The girl shouted and rolled her eyes, smming the boy's feet right down on the sand and harshly grabbing his arm. "C'MON, BUG, WE'RE OUTTA HERE."

  "you are covered in blood." Said the being-dragged-along-the-beach boy. "even more than when we came."

  "SHUT UP!" The girl barked as she stomped away, leaving the pack of visibly disappointed adventurers, like kids who had their toy taken by their mother before bedtime, in the dust. "I KNOW!"

  "ok-"

  "AND SAY IT MORE!" Contradict'd the girl.

  "it really is a lot of blood. i imagine this is unsanitary." Obey'd the boy.

  "VERY!"

  "i imagine."

  And the sun set on the boy and the girl's day at the beach, and the sands that line the coast of the Windnds were forever changed... In ways that will not be apparent for some time. Quite some time. Lots.

  ... Still, the girl had a little more to say.

  "UGH!" She randomly growled at some point, a little over halfway through their walk through the Wilds. "This is why I hate adventurers! Moral code makes no sense and they never do what I want them to! I mean, people DIED! LOTS! TAKE THE EVENT MORE SERIOUSLY, DANGIT!!!!"

  The boy, naturally, titled his head, still being dragged along by the arm. "are you not simir? do you no just do whatever you want?"

  "I'm a BANDIT!" The girl spat into the boy's face, barring her teeth like fangs. "IT'S DIFFERENT!" She did not eborate. Also, she bit the boy's arm. This may have been unreted.

  Fin