Day Two: Campfire

[camphalf_blood]

[so you've had some time to get to know the camp. You've taken classes and hung out in your cabin. Now you get to come back around the campfire and discuss it all! Or you can fall back on tradition and tell scary stories.

Interested in a song? The Apollo cabin will lead you! Or not. Just remember that curfew is in place tonight. If you're actually planning to adhere to it]


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The less social area of the fire

[dontpatr0nizeme]

[Washington wasn't here for any songs or stories. He was just out relaxing. Feel free to pester him or join him at the quieter activities... Like watching the fire and reflecting.]

[fistfullofmagic]

[Dhaos is pleased that he found a loophole in the "must remain close to the lake" thing water nymphs have going by filling a bucket with lake water and carrying it around with him. Don't mind him Wash, he's just gonna sit by the fire and warm up a bit.]

[dontpatr0nizeme]

[Washington raises an eyebrow at the bucket.] Enjoying yourself?

[fistfullofmagic]

...If being forcibly attached to a body of water is your cup of tea, then I suppose being a nymph is enjoyable. [Aww, he's trying to be sarcastic~]

[dontpatr0nizeme]

...

You just made being put into a cabin with inspections and expected to go to classes sound so much better.

[fistfullofmagic]

Indeed. [He's pretty good at that apparently.]

[i_got_this]

[South can't help a shiver at the sight of him, her shoulder dully throbbing. She crosses her arms and considers walking the other way, but with the way they were cabin mates she figured she wouldn't be able to avoid him forever.]

You're staring at that fire pretty hard. Trying to burn it to death with your eyes or something?

[dontpatr0nizeme]

Just was enjoying the peace and thinking. Until you showed up.

What is it, South?

[i_got_this]

[She bristles at that, pulling slightly in on herself. It was hard enough facing him after he shot her, but now that she's got the news about why she's a little more tight-lipped then normal.]

Hey, I don't like this anymore then you, but we're sharing a cabin so we might as well, I don't know ... call a truce? Or something?

[dontpatr0nizeme]

I think we can manage that, South.

[i_got_this]

Good. I didn't want to have to worry about going to sleep.

[dontpatr0nizeme]

Nor do I, South.

I've enough to worry about with Kat...

[i_got_this]

[South looks at him for a moment, and she can't keep the hardness out of her eyes. Sure, she knew the reasoning behind why he shot her on sight when she arrived, but she still felt like the victim, because she hadn't done that to him yet, she wasn't that person ... right? She glances away, still disturbed but the idea of what she becomes.]

Yeah well you won't have to worry about me. [The unsaid line here, as long as I don't have to worry about you.]

[stalkershiki]

[Normally, Shiki's not the type to hide herself away and bottle her feelings away.

And she's been really good about not obsessing over her closest friends all leaving within the span of a few months. She's managed to deal with it relatively well, in fact!

But she's spent all day working with horses, and she just can't help but think about Equius, and where he is now, and what he would think of everything that's happened.

So she's gonna spend a little bit of time at the beginning of the campfire being very quiet and contemplative and staring-into-the-flames-y.]

[antichauffeur]

[Have this kid right here come share your space for a bit. He's kinda sleepy though since the fire is hypnotizing and he's had a big day]

[stalkershiki]

[Shiki doesn't really notice him at first. She's pretty lost in her own world, and... well, staring straight into a fire probably isn't the best thing in the world for your eyes.

Eventually, though, she senses him nearby in that way that humans have of noticing each other, and she turns to him. She still can't really see who it is because, you know, she was just staring into a fire, but... no harm in being friendly, right?]

Hey~

[antichauffeur]

Hi!

The fire is really pretty, huh?

[stalkershiki]

Yeah, it really is... I mean, normally I don't really think about it, but fire is kind of amazing. I wonder what it is. I mean, it's not an animal, vegetable, or mineral, but it still exists and everything, you know?

[antichauffeur]

[he wasn't quite following but he'd go with it]

Like, is it alive?

[stalkershiki]

I... the thing is, I kinda remember discussing that in science at school! You know, before I came to Paradisa. Because... oh man, I was so bad at science, but they said something about how there are a bunch of things that you have to do if you're alive, and fire does most of those. You know, it consumes stuff, it releases stuff, it grows...

[camphalf_blood]

[a lot of people seem to be using the campfire to think. The girl attending it adds a bit more fuel to keep it going]

[stalkershiki]

[Shiki's still off in her own little world, but she can't help but notice the girl stoking the fire and keeping it burning.]

Oh, I, uh... thanks.

[camphalf_blood]

[she offers a friendly smile] You're welcome.

[stalkershiki]

Do you work here or something?

[camphalf_blood]

I do. I tend the fire.