Jaden saw Jade as she headed out to help LTP, and said cheerfully to her with a grin, "Hey Jade, good job!"

Jaden arrived a scant minute after Alura, and slipped his ankle out of the rubber-band bracelet, dropping the coconut in the sand at the 'finish line'.

He saw that Alura was sitting rather dispiritedly on the ground, and went to sit with her. "What's up, Alura? Why the long face?" Jaden started drawing pictures in the sand, tracing out a cartoon cowboy on his horse, pointing a pistol at a dummy outside a saloon.