Sloane caught his meaning behind safe and rolled her eyes at him for effect. "I am a very good swimmer thank you very much! When I am not being pulled on by a squid!" As far as she was aware, there weren't any in the ocean near her cousins' home.

"I could use some more odd jobs myself," She supposed anyway, though it wasn't exactly something a girl in her position in life should be wont to do, she supposed she wasn't exactly normal in many regards. "Oh will you? I must admit I'm jealous, I rarely get to see her in the summer, though we did see one another shortly after term ended and got caught in that mysterious hedge maze." They had made it out fine, but it had marred their outing for sure.

"I hope you have fun as well then, and are quite safe." Alice lived on a farm after all! It was notably peculiar though, that Ned was making the trip, but Sloane chose to let her thoughts die there, lest she get ahead of herself on any notions she ought not to. Just because she was harboring crushes and the like at this age, did not mean everyone else had lost their minds too.