Beach Planet

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Scott's probably around here somewhere, trying to recover from James.

The water's pretty nice.

Perfect place to dump slavers.

Luka snorted. "We're not gonna fall. And YOU could just be repaired." She reasoned.

"And if you fell, you'd die," James said. "Man, why am I letting you on this thing again?" he joked.

Luka whapped his arm. "Shush, don't say things like that."

James snickered, but looked around to make sure nobody had heard. Right. He did NOT want to draw attention to himself.
He tried to look like a well-behaved android.

Thankfully the roller coaster started crawling up the first hill at this point.

Luka held onto her restraints, wriggling her toes inside her boots as they climbed the hill. She looked a little nervous.

"It's okay, it's just a roller coaster, we'll be fine," James reassured her. They reached the top, and then the train started picking up speed as they started downward. "AAAH HELP!"

Luka screamed, laughing as they whizzed around a corner and were thrown into a loop.

James clung desperately to the handrail as the ride swerved and twisted. "LUKA, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO ENJOY THIS!" James was half laughing, half panicking. He didn't have adrenaline, but this was still exhilarating.

"Why else would you do it!??" She yelled back, howling in glee as they crested another hill and got a moment of airtime before plunging once more into a corkscrew.

"IF YOU LIKE IT YOU'RE CRAZY," James yelled back. He let out an undignified squeal as they entered the corkscrew. He was having fun though.

"Always!" Luka shouted back, holding on tight as they came out the final turn and into the final set of brakes. She let out a sharp breath. "that... was AMAZING!"

James burst into exhilarated laughter when the ride stopped. "That was crazy. Are you okay? Am I okay?" He looked around at the other riders, "Are they okay?"
He got up when an employee released the restraints, and promptly sat back down, giggling. "Oh maaan, my accelerometer is all out of whack."

Luka giggled and hauled herself out of the car. "That was fun, can we do it again?"

James tried getting up again, and succeeded this time. He walked around a bit to make sure his sensors were calibrated. "Heck yeah!" He laughed.

Luka grinned. "race you!" and back to the queue they went.

James raced Luka back to the end of the line. A few people stared at them, but for once they looked like they were more charmed by their enthusiasm than anything else.

Luka ignored the people easier this time, all the adrenaline in her system helped. They joined the queue again.

Probably James and Luka were going to do this several more times before they'd even think about doing anything else. Hey, it was fun. Even if James did keep saying it was horrifying and scary while he laughed.

Luka enjoyed herself immensely till the excitement started to wear off. She suggested they go see if they could beat any of the games and win something stupidly huge and cheaply made.

"Heck yeah," James agreed. "Win me something cheap and badly manufactured, Luka!" He fluttered his eyelashes at her.

Luka laughed and went to find a game she thought she stood a chance at beating.

James followed along, shooting winning smiles at passers by. The energy and colors and noise of this place had shaken him out of his gloom about Starr pretty thoroughly for now. And when he was happy, he sure couldn't keep a low profile. "Maybe we should try cotton candy too. Have you ever tried it?"

Luka shook her head. "it's spun sugar right?" Satare had far more literal names for things. She found a shooting game and grinned to the surly looking man running it.

"Shoot the targets and win a prize." He told her dully.

She nodded and paid the money to have a go.

"Yeah, spun, brightly colored sugar," James said. "It's so pretty." He smiled a charming smile at the guy running the game. "Hey man!"

Luka concentrated and tried to win a prize, it took a few goes but she did manage to get into the swing of the ridiculously difficult game eventually and won a large cheaply made stuffed fish toy.

James cheered Luka on, making a big deal of how good she was. "Now what the heck are you gonna do with it, use it as a pillow?" He asked, amused.

Luka looked at the thing and shrugged, handing it to James. "Decorate your room with it?"