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Mary comes into the bar from her room upstairs today, wearing a floor length dressing gown and a rather hunted expression (which is somewhat amplified by the way she skulks along the wall, heading for the door to the outside). Rationally, she knows that no one in Milliways will care what she’s wearing underneath—a get up that she had had to confer with Bar at length to settle on. But eighteen years of ingrained propriety and modesty are hard to shake.

Mary takes the path down to the lake where she divests herself of her robe and shoes. She lays them carefully on a rock, and reaches back to make sure her hair is securely braided.

She had found a new book in the Milliways library; a slim volume apparently compiled by experts titled 101 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do. Some of the things the book listed are things Mary already knows how to do (Sew on a button). Others are things that she’s sure she’d be excused for not learning (Operate a computer).

But one of the book’s most adamant passages had been about the importance of knowing how to swim. This is an activity that Mary has never had the occasion to learn, but she’d taken it to heart. This will be her first attempt.

God willing, she won’t drown in the process.

Mary takes a deep breath and wades in up to her knees. It’s a start, right?

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Elrond is out for a walk. He hadn't considered going for a swim, but the moment he sees Mary, he realizes that it is indeed a fine day for doing just that.

He inclines his head in her direction with a small smile. His first meeting with her had been very awkward but she was fully excused as it had been her first visit.