Squirrel campfire, Wednesday evening

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia had the fire going pretty quickly and settled back against one of the surrounding logs with her legs one leg stretched out and the other bent up, supporting her guitar. Her brace was lying on the ground by her knee, and she was playing a soft, Spanish ballad as she stared into the fire.

That leg that's streched out really might be a bit too close to the fire circle, but she hadn't built a large blaze, just something small to provide a bit of light and warmth as the sun set.

[ooc: open to interaction]

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Hey there, Nadia." Blair grinned as he bounced up. "Do you mind if I listen?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia smiled up at Blair, making no effort to move. "Not at all. How are you, Blair?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"I'm 15!" Blair bounced and took a seat next to her. "How are you?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia blinked at the odd reply. "Sixteen." Then it clicked. "Wait, do you mean you're fifteen today?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Yup, it's my birthday!" Blair bounced. "And Ivanova visited me from space in this cool hologram thingy."

[nadiathesaint]

"Wow. Happy birthday, Blair! Why didn't you tell me? I could have gotten you a present?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"I sorta forgot about it with the workshops starting and moving into cabins and everything. plus, my mun forgot until ivanova-mun mentioned it the other day." Blair bounced. "But it's all good."

[nadiathesaint]

"Hm. Well, I'll have to get you a late birthday present then." She paused for a second to refocus on the guitar as she hit a particularly difficult chord, then relaxed into the music again.

It felt damn good to be just sitting and playing again.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair grinned at Nadia and leaned back against a log, just listening to Nadia play.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

A (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486416062/sr=8-4/qid=1148511989/ref=pd_bbs_4/104-6402494-2080733?%5Fencoding=UTF8) brown (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807059099/sr=8-2/qid=1148512050/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-6402494-2080733?%5Fencoding=UTF8) package thumped on Blair's shoulder. If Blair were to look behind him, he'd see Pip standing there holding the package that had thumped Blair's shoulder.

"Happy birthday," he said.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia blinked. "Hey, no fair, how'd you know it was his birthday?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Magic," Pip responded.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia stuck her tongue out at him.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Pip! Thank you!" Blair tore into the package and looked at the books.

"Thank you, man! These are so totally cool!"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi has been filming this from the other side of the campfire since... Some point.

"Happy birthday Blair!" she called andthrew a small bag at him. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/strongestgirl/152714386/)

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair waved happily at the camera. "Thank you, Pippi!"

[for some reason, the link is broken for me]

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi waved back from behind the camera.

"You're welcome! Do something interesting!"

[[ooc: tribal necklace (http://static.flickr.com/45/152714386_89925e8e3d_m.jpg)]]

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair took out the necklace and tied it around his neck. "It's really cool, Pippi, thank you."

He paused for a minute and bounced. "Um... what exactly is interesting? Like stand on my head or something?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I dunno... Can you stand on your head? Don't you know some kind of tribal... thingy?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that sort of interesting." Blair stood and did three quick circles around Pippi, dancing and chanting loudly.

"There." He panted. "Either you'll have easy childbearing or it's going to snow on Friday. I might have gotten my signals mixed."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well... Thanks either way!"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi wandered up with her camcorder and started filming Nadia playing her guitar as the sun went down.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia smiled briefly for the camera, before refocusing on her guitar.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi sat down on the other side of the small fire to get the best possible light on Nadia and refocused her camera.

"What are you playing?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shrugged. "It's a song I used to hear some of the street musicians play. I don't know the title because my mun is too lazy to look one up."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"It's very pretty." Pippi said before falling silent so she could get more of the music on her camera.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia just nodded and kept playing. She suspected her wrist wasn't up to much, and wanted to get in good practice before she had to stop.

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras passed by the campfire to say hello to all before heading into the cabin (http://union-jane.livejournal.com/3114.html) to wind down after a long, strange day.

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia waved back, rolling her wrist a bit before putting her guitar down and putting her brace back on.

"Time for a break."

She headed into the cabin.