Kenna Commaigh, thigh-deep in a Seychelle tide pool attempting to not get pinched by crabs, reviews his life choices in a moment of introspection, and while not entirely pleased by his current status of pulling away pinchers, couldn't say he regretted any of it.
A long-limbed and slender man, with the faintest touch of ginger to his shock of blonde hair, he'd been a childhood friend of a political family's scion, who'd risen ascendant and taken a senatorial seat. Having invested his own time into a political science degree, he'd ridden right along, and moderated his friend (Senator Norman Wallsley, for the uninformed) away from his hardcore rightwing tendencies into something more moderate. The landslide election that had followed had pleased Norman enough to send his friend on a week's vacation to the tropical Seychelles Islands, with the true-enough reasoning that he needed more sun.
The water was excellent for another reason: a lifelong swimmer, Kenna took to the ocean as often as possible, unavoidably in love with the waves and the weightlessness of the water. Cut and slimmed by pressure, slender and althetic, Norman had point-blank told him to get laid at some point. His appearance wasn't the problem - just his gruffness.
It's not that Kenna disliked other people. More that they just tried his patience, eventually, and he didn't have a lot of it. That was out, then. At least he had a private little condo on this beach that he didn't have to share with anyone, and this out of season, during the late autumn that left the temperature a cool but comfortable eighties, there was no one else on this side of the isle at all.
Seated on the rim of this tide pool at high tide, feeling each wave brush by his thighs and watching the hermit crabs scramble for their next shell, he felt he couldn't complain.
A long-limbed and slender man, with the faintest touch of ginger to his shock of blonde hair, he'd been a childhood friend of a political family's scion, who'd risen ascendant and taken a senatorial seat. Having invested his own time into a political science degree, he'd ridden right along, and moderated his friend (Senator Norman Wallsley, for the uninformed) away from his hardcore rightwing tendencies into something more moderate. The landslide election that had followed had pleased Norman enough to send his friend on a week's vacation to the tropical Seychelles Islands, with the true-enough reasoning that he needed more sun.
The water was excellent for another reason: a lifelong swimmer, Kenna took to the ocean as often as possible, unavoidably in love with the waves and the weightlessness of the water. Cut and slimmed by pressure, slender and althetic, Norman had point-blank told him to get laid at some point. His appearance wasn't the problem - just his gruffness.
It's not that Kenna disliked other people. More that they just tried his patience, eventually, and he didn't have a lot of it. That was out, then. At least he had a private little condo on this beach that he didn't have to share with anyone, and this out of season, during the late autumn that left the temperature a cool but comfortable eighties, there was no one else on this side of the isle at all.
Seated on the rim of this tide pool at high tide, feeling each wave brush by his thighs and watching the hermit crabs scramble for their next shell, he felt he couldn't complain.