Ev is not quite as good as Thar – in fact, Thar is quite a bit better at the speed aspect – but Ev is really good at predicting where the ball's gonna go, or rather where people are going to hit the ball, and he makes up for his reduced speed with enthusiasm, effort and a little bit of predicting people, so overall he's pretty good too.

Kay is not all that great at speed or precision, but he still enjoys the game.

Krian's reflexes and speed are amazing; he will be up there ranking behind Thar.

Eventually they'll be left with a single winner (it's Thar), but then they can just play another round.

This time, Thar will not win. Ev will make sure of it.

And Rachel will frown occasionally, looking disapprovingly at Ev.

Honestly, such children.

Krian might get even more competitive this time. Thar will not win this time.

Well, congratulations, Thar will indeed not win this time.

He will, however, make it a challenge, so good luck.

Ha. That's hardly challenging.

Okay, maybe it's a little challenging, but Ev's not gonna tell Thar that.

And eventually Thar will go down, and it will be between Ev and Krian.

But who will win?

Krian will, of course. We established that Thar wouldn't so that leaves Krian.

Kay might be a bit distracted by Thar athleticism.

Well, Thar will be busy not paying attention to that because he's not super in the mood for that right now, but he'll watch the game quite happily.

Of course Krian wins. And Ev ever-so-graciously thanks him for the good game, and then they should probably start another one, because they have some time left before the end of class, but it might not be too long left.

Ev doesn't think he'll win this one either.

Krian wins again, mostly because he got excited from the first victory. He thanks Ev sportmanship. He appreciates it.

Well, Ev is happy to be appreciated.

Rashel's happy that everyone seemed to enjoy it. Now, however, it's approximately the end of the lesson, so they should collect all the rackets, put them into the store cupboard, and go get changed.

Indeed they should! Thar volunteers to gather the rackets together, taking the ones from Rashel and Ev and generally just seeming to be in a good mood.

The cousins are in a good mood too. They hand over the rackets and go change.

Ev goes to get changed.

As does Rashel, smiling from the whole experience.

And meanwhile, Thar puts the rackets away and then follows Ev to go get changed.

Afterwards, he hangs around outside the changing rooms, waiting for people to congregate so he can talk to them a bit and say bye.

Krian does the same until Kay leaves the changing room.

...And when Kay is done changing they leave. Kay has a cooking class to attend. They say bye to the people they have met.

They all say bye back!

And then they talk about some stuff a bit – nothing important, just catching up on some things from the rest of the day, and it's not like any of them have a desperate need to get back home, so that's fine.

And eventually, they leave to go their separate ways!

Well, the cousins go home together first, but otherwise: they go their separate ways.