Then after a bit, some of them rushed back into the water to play another game.
"Marco!" Marie's voice rang out suddenly, her eyes squeezed shut, hands reaching blindly.
"Polo!" Multiple voices answered from different directions.
She spun toward the sounds, stumbling slightly in the shifting sand beneath her feet. Her hands grasped empty air as Joseph ducked beneath the surface, swimming away silently. Klein giggled from somewhere to her left, immediately giving away his position.
But Janus quickly pulled him away while grinning.
"Polo!" Anna called out, then immediately slapped both hands over her mouth, eyes wide with the realization she'd betrayed herself.
Marie lunged toward the sound. Anna shrieked and tried to run through the waist-high water, but the resistance slowed her down. Marie's fingers tagged her shoulder.
"Got you! You're it!"
