Squirrel Campfire - Friday Afternoon (After lunch)

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

There is no fire in the fire pit, it's the middle of the day and Pippi doesn't need to cook anything.

What she is doing is enjoying the day. There's a chance it will get cooler and rain, but right now it's quite nice in her opinion.

She's sipping a lemonade, and fiddling with a bit of rope that's different colors on each end and about six feet long.

Other then that, she doesn't seem to be particularly buisy.

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We do keep running into each other

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

oooh, rope, all kinds fun
"Hey Pippi." tim said, wandering up.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hey Tim." Pippi said and tossed the end of the rope, which was tied into a Monkey Paw knot (http://www.scoutxing.com/knots/monkeys_paw/monkeys_paw.htm) around a small rock, to him gently.

"Think fast."

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[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

He managed to not get hit with the rock, but wound up hitting it away rather than catch it.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well... I suppose that's as good a reaction as any." Pippi said pulling the end back to her.

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[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim decided not to mention the fact that he'd been trying to catch it. "So you're training rocks?" he asked.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes. As you can see, this one is particularly ferocious!" Pippi used the other end of the rope to whip at the rock on the ground.

"Down Simba! Bad rock! Back!"

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[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Hey now," Tim said. "No need for that, that might only make him more vicious."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

After sleeping most of the past couple days (other than going to class, that is), Demyx was feeling better and more up to talking to people (and his mun has the day off from work). He meandered his way out to the campfire and plunked down by Pippi, dressed in his old black Organization clothes. "What're you doing?" he asked curiously.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Practicing knots!" Pippi said. "It's a very important skill to have when you're a seafaring type person... And it's kinda homework for the Beach class."

Pippi held up the rope, which has various types of knots tied in it.

"Hello by the way."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"Interesting. I've never tried it." Demyx grinned. "Hi to you too. Been keeping busy?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes I have. And you should." Pippi said tying an angler's loop (http://www.tollesburysc.co.uk/Knots/Knots_gallery.htm). "You never know when you'll need a good knot."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"I've never tried to tie anybody up before," Demyx admitted. "Though I have been tied up, myself. It can be fun." TMI? Probably.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim glanced at him. Not what he'd thought Pippi was getting at.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Silly, there's other things that can be tied." Pippi said not really thinking about the ramifications of the conversation.

She's also not bothered to think back to all those times she played "Pirates and... Other Pirates" with various members of her Papa's crew. (Kids who grow up on ships don't play "cops and robbers" or "Cowboys and Indians".) Because if she did it may occur to he as to why the men were so amused by that game.

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras came out of the cabin an plunked herself down near the fire.

"Hey," she said, "What're you up to?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Practicing knots." Pippi said, holding out the monkey paw knot she was just undoing. "Jarod went over them in Beach class today and I realized I was very rusty."

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

"Neat," said Seras, examining it, "What would you use a knot like that for?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well, it has several uses." she said. "Normally you'd tie it around a shot, or, if you have it, a small hollow ball. And this way, you can easily toss the rope up and over a boom or toss it from person to person in the rigging. I don't know if you've ever try to throw around a loose end of a rope, but it doesn't fly very well."

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

"I can't say that I have, no. But, that makes sense. And, this is for...rigging and sails and..stuff?"

Seras' nautical vocabulary was close to non-existant.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well, some of these knots are for sailing, and some are for fishing, and some are for fishing, most of them are just useful." Pippi showed Seras the hand out (http://www.tollesburysc.co.uk/Knots/Knots_gallery.htm) from the class.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Hey Gwynn Seras."

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras looked up and smiled.

"Hey Tim! It's been awhile. How are you?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"keeping out of trouble so far. You?"

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras shrugged in the innocent gesture of one who has not aided and abetted in the theft and glittering of underpants.

"Same. Are you enjoying your workshops?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"I am." he said. "I can't wait for my turn at storytelling. How about you?"