Puffin Campfire: Monday Morning around 10 or so

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim stepped out onto the porch and down to the fire circle, a mug of hot chocolate in his hand. This was something he'd never done before, and he thought it might become a new morning ritual while he was here. It was pretty out here, he was starting to wish his mother had been able to afford to send him to summer camp before.

come chat, set a spell, take your shoes off

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[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude wasn't lurking around Puffin until it was logistically sound to knock and ask for Sakurazaki. Honestly. He flopped down beside Tim with a mellow smile. "Mornin', bro."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Mornin' stranger." Tim said with a very bad southern accent, which he abandoned immediately. "How's your cabin?"

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Cabin-y," Jude replied succinctly. "But not as cabin-y as I expected. There's like, electricity and stuff."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Used to roughing it a bit more?" Tim asked. "I've never been anywhere without electricity, I'm not sure this city slicker would be able to cope."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude shrugged. "Every cabin I've been in has been a wooden box with some bunks and really thin mattresses." The distance between the fingers he lifted indicated something a bit smaller than an egg foamie. "I'm totally not complaining, though."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Well I've slept on the floor in a sleeping bag before." Tim said. "I was kinda fearing a dirty, spider infested hell hole. So I'm really not complaining either."

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"Hey, what's wrong with spiders?" Jude chided mellowly. "They just want to live in peace."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"And I have no problem with them living in peace as long as it doesn't involve crawling anywhere near where I sleep. Or any other bugs. Although I suppose if one was to clandestinely set up shop on the ceiling and eat mosquitos I wouldn't object too much."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"At least there's no black flies." Jude settled back, shaking his head. "Don't think I could deal with black flies."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Oh so now you've got a problem with ethnic flies?" tim smirked.

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"I have no problem with ethnic flies if they ethnic somewhere far, far away from me."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim snickered. "Maybe the spiders will eat the flies." He paused. "And the birds will eat the spiders, the cats will eat the birds, the dogs will eat the cats..."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"And the purple holographic dinosaurs will eat the dogs?" Jude suggested mildly.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Purple...? "Hmm, but then who'll eat the purple, holothingee dinosaurs?"

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude shrugged. "Probably a computer virus or something."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Naturally." He didn't know much about computers really. "They can get viruses?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

It's not until afternoon that Sakurazaki makes it back from Arts and Crafts, playing with a bit of glue that got stuck to her fingers, rolling it around and getting a mild amusement out of watching her skin stick like that. She looks up when she gets to the door. Her shoulders straighten. She is obviously a little surprised to see Jude already there.

"Oh, hello, Jude," she says with a slight smile, putting down her hands quickly. [[OOC: and, if Tim is still lingering outside by when afternoon rolls around]] She nods also to Tim, greeting him in the same way.

She goes immediately into small talk, out of a natural instinct. "How were your workshops?"

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude bounced to his feet as soon as he saw her. "Hey, Setsuna!" he beamed, then dropped his eyes to stare at his feet, scuffing the dirt a little with the toe of his overly large skater shoes. "It was good. We made brownies. I, uh, saved you one." More like half a batch.

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"Really?" She nearly beams, which means that there's actually a flash of teeth in her smile. The prospects of a brownie sound very, very good to her. "That's really nice of you, Jude. Although, you did owe me for breakfast the other day."

She briefly considers finding a place to hide her own spoils from the workshops, but decides she'll show him anyway, holding up the small, slightly broken sword of duct tape and popsicle sticks that she made in arts and crafts. She holds it by the hilt, red string dangling down. It feels wretchedly small for her, but it's about the side of a small sword. "This is what I made," she says, lip slightly curling, eyes shifting down to the ground.

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Cool, bra," Jude enthused, not even noticing the odd gender role reversion right there. "Um, brownies are back in my cabin. Didja want to go and grab them and then maybe head into town for a bit?" He looked hopeful, but quickly finished up with typical Canadian politeness. "But we don't have to if you want to relax after your workshop . . ."

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"Arts and crafts isn't very stressful, save a possible splinter or two," she grins. "I think that sounds like a good plan. Lead the way."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Awesome, bra." Jude turned to shamble in the direction of Koala, his hands in his pockets as usual, but paused as he passed Setsuna and offered her his arm, just a slight out-turning of his elbow. Starr had always taken his arm, so the action was almost natural for him.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Did you do something to your arm, Jude? You're holding it funny."

She's not being coy. Sakurazaki really has no idea what is up with the suddenly strange bend of his elbow, left blinking at it with a slight tilt to her head.

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Jude glanced down, the tips of his ears going red, and he brought it back in. "Oh. Sorry, bra. I just thought . . . nevermind."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

She frowns slightly; that was kind of strange. But she shrugs it off, and swishes her little mini-nodachi around in the air as they walked over to Koala. It felt really good to hold a sword again, even if it was a little popsicle one.

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude left her just outside the door as he ducked inside and grabbed the largest brownie from the bag, hurrying back outside to proudly present it to Sakurazaki. "Just for you," he said with a mellow smile. "Hope ya like it."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"It looks great," she smiles, reaching for it, but then remembering that that was her slightly gluey hand, and quickly switches and grabs it with the other, tossing her little sword in the air and expertly catching it with her other hand as she receieved the brownie.

She's not afraid to make her first bite a tenative one, hoping it just looks like Japanese politeness. In part, it truly is. But the little nibble soon becomes a very eager engulf. "Oh, wow! These are really good, Jude! You're almost as good a cook as Ojou-sama."

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Jude's ears went pink. "Uh, thanks, bra. I kinda had to learn at my last job and then just ended up being kinda good at it." He perked up a bit at her enthusiasm before nodding towards the nearest path. "Shall we head into town (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/854123.html)?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

he's not, you two have fun

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

[[Sorry for highjacking the post, too. ^_~]]