"How awesome you are?"

He laughs. "That's very hot."

"So?"

"That's one of the things!"

"That I'm hot, or the proportionate ego?"

"That you're hot, naturally."

"Both hot and cute," smirks Anthony.

"Smart, too, catching me on my bullpoop."

Pause. "I was gonna say that I wasn't actually catching you on it but – first I have to ask about 'bullpoop'."

"Oh I don't really swear."

"Do you have objections to other people doing it?"

"No, not particularly."

"… That sounds like you have a bit of an objection?"

"It's more about myself, mom used to say I shouldn't swear unless I really meant it and it—stuck."

"Ah."

He shrugs. "So I don't actually have a moral objection or anything."

"I'd be curious what the moral objection was, if there was one."

Shrug.

Anthony also shrugs, and then gets on with eating his lunch.

Kaede continues to be very popular with the kids and have lots of fun in spite of any lingering transphobia (which he hopes they're not showing around the kids or he'll have words with them).

The counselors in their group, not very much. In the others… there are a couple.

The summer progresses. Anthony seems to enjoy the archery.

Kaede slowly but surely befriends the other counselors. She seems to be good at this. She seems to be rather good at this, actually, and enjoy it more than any particular activity, although she finds it very charming when Anthony archers.

The other counselors seem to warm up to her – some are more readily… nice… than others, and some, near the start at least, seem to be under the impression she has a twin…

Anthony tries to be helpfully charming where possible too.

And will she convince Anthony to go on that skinny dipping adventure before the end of the summer?

Anthony didn't realize that'd been in her plans.