"I've missed Glorified Rock. Let's pull out the kayaks."
"Yes!" Anuja exclaims. "We haven't used them a whole lot this summer, so we might need to de-spider them first."
Anuja was right. When the five of you haul out the kayaks from the shed, some spiders crawl out in a hurry to escape while a few cling on, determined not to be uprooted from their home. There are only two kayaks, and after a failed attempt to see if one of you can balance at the front of one, Anuja goes to her neighbors' house to ask if you all can borrow theirs.
Being the most experienced kayaker, Anuja takes Kirill, the least experienced, in one of the two person kayaks, while you and Diego pair up. A slight arachnophobe, Addy gets the solo kayak which has been taken better care of over the summer and wins the race to Glorified Rock.
"It doesn't count," Diego complains as he drags his kayak up onto the shore. "You were just one person, the rest of us had to move the weight of two people."
"You also had the strength of two people. Listen, I don't make the rules," Addy says.
The reflection of the sun in the water is blinding, but you can't help but look out at the gentle waves. How far is Glorified Rock from the place you were last with Rex before he died?
"Sit down, Petzeiros, you're making me nervous," Addy says as they stretch out on a towel. "Like you're expecting pirates to attack at any minute."
As you take a seat on an area of rock that birds haven't evacuated their bowels all over, Anuja puts on some music on her phone and dangles her feet in the water.
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