[EP] outdoor activities

[st_illfive]

Now that he’d spent some time in this place, Five had to admit that there were some decided advantages, one was definitely that there were just enough other boys of his physical age and size or close to it that the Inn actually stocked clothes. He’d been able to lay in a small store of shirts and jeans, so he no longer had to wear his Umbrella uniform unless he felt like it. Another was that despite being physically thirteen, people seemed to more or less accept his assertion that he knew how to take care of himself, whatever his attitude.

He was taking advantage of both things today, being outside in jeans and tee near a formerly-bare wall, with sticks of chalk (Number Five was the reason that the little hotel shop was always out of sidewalk chalk) piled on a nearby table along with a pitcher of margaritas. The wall had been subjected to the most academic vandalism ever: it was liberally covered with complex mathematics.

Despite not much actual progress, it was being a pleasant enough day. Five thought he might even clean off the wall when he decided to pack it in for the day.