Submission (#56) Approved

Blaire anxiously paces around her Palu’au “vacation home,” thoughts racing with fantasies about exploring Enmir the moment she’s allowed back outdoors again. After what feels like eons dealing with all this dreadful sunshine and salty sea air, the dark and gloomy swamps of Enmir have never seemed more appealing.

Her sister, Serena, rolls her eyes at Blaire’s dramatics. “Will you please just sit still for once? Throwing another tantrum won't make spring get here any faster.”

“Sit still?” Blaire asks incredulously, ramping up the dramatics even higher, “How am I supposed to just sit here when I’m stuck in this stupid place?! It's so boring! There’s just no mystery here, you know? No murky water for monsters to be hiding in, no cool poisonous plants to collect, no dark, creepy woods to explore…There's just nothing to do here!”

Serena, thinking that her eyes might fall out of her head if she rolled them any harder, can only interject with a sigh before Blaire continues on her tirade. “Oh, and don’t get me started on this weather! The sun is just way too bright; I’ve had a headache since we got here. Where’s all the shade? In Enmir, the trees grow like, a billion feet tall, and they’ve got all these big branches to keep the sun out. Why can’t they have that here, huh? This is torture!”

Blaire, now reduced to helplessly whining and flailing about on the floor (and unaware that her audience had quietly excused herself long ago), continues to complain with no sign of stopping anytime soon: “And another thing…”