
"Nothing like December in Australia, eh, tovarisch?" asked Napoleon as he and his partner ran along the beach beneath a hot Queensland sun.
"It is like no other place on earth," Illya agreed. The two men had just returned from a daunting high-speed chase through Eastern Europe on the trail of several THRUSH agents who had planned to use a hypnosis-inducing gas to control the minds of prominent world leaders and were now enjoying a well-deserved vacation in the Great Barrier Reef.
"How beautiful!" Napoleon sighed.
"Yes, the bright colors of the coral are very attractive..." Illya began, then noticed with consternation that his partner had been referring, not to their wondrous natural surroundings, but to a couple of young women who were diving and swimming a little way up the shore from them.
"Let's go over and say hello," the American suggested.
"Later, perhaps," Illya replied. "Right now I want to explore the beauties of nature."