Puffin Campfire, Tuesday Night (8-ish PM)

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner had a small fire going in his cabin's campfire pit and was sitting cross-legged in front of it, trying out some of the meditation techniques that Sakurazaki had shown him in the morning.

He kept getting distracted, though, since he still couldn't figure out what exactly it was that Nadia had found so funny last night, and it was perplexing enough to constantly break him out of whatever bit of meditative trance he managed to get into. So after about a half hour of frustration, he gave up and went into his alcove to grab a hacky sack.

Heading back out to the campfire, Conner went into a hacky sack drill and lost himself soon enough in the movements, reacting instead of thinking, just getting into the flow of it. In the end, it pretty much amounted to a slightly sweatier version of the same thing.

Comments

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie was walking back to camp after a trip to the dorms to pick up a few things she'd forgotten to pack and she saw Conner outside.

She really wasn't ready to talk to him yet, so she picked up her pace and hoped he'd be too caught up in what he was doing to notice her.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately for Marie, Conner had just finished off a particularly tricky combination and was taking a break when she passed by.

Bel's warning from last night was fresh in his mind (and given Bel's usual flair in delivering it, it was going to stay in his mind for quite a while), and he pocketed the hacky sack. "Marie?"

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie sighed but stopped and managed a brief smile. "Hey, Conner," she said.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie happens to be walking by when he noticed a somewhat tense conversation going on between Marie and Conner. Given what he heard on the radio the other night he caught up with her when she was walking away.

"Hey Marie. What's up?"

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"Nothing," Marie replied, shaking her head. "I was just going back to my cabin."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was still wandering about, determined to spend more time at all the campfires, this time, instead of just the one outside her cabin.

She successfully restrained her giggles upon seeing Conner, though there might have been a joke about balls running through her head.

"Hey, that's pretty good."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Thanks," Conner said, wondering if she was going to collapse in a gigglefit again. Which probably explained why he was moving very cautiously. "Are you feeling less insane today?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia smiled. "Oh, I'm fine, now. Can I try?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn watched Conner quietly from slightly outside the campfire circle.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner looked up at his next break and waved. "Hey, Dawn!"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Distractor guy! How're you, Conner?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip crept up behind Dawn, watching Connor play with the hackey sack. "What's he doing?" he finally whispered.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Hacky sack," she whispered back. "He's really good."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

After the film festival, Tim came outside with some soda and settled down for an evening of chatting with whoever happened by.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Hey, roomie who's currently on the other side of the cabin!"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hi Conner!" Pippi said coming out of the cabin after the movie thing.

"Oooh! Hacky sack!"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Pippi. This something else you're good at?" Conner asked, kicking the hacky sack in her direction.

[stykera]

After watching the documentaries inside his cabin, Stark headed to the campfire outside his cabin.

Waving to everyone, he sat down by the fire.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Conner said, oddly fascinated by the firelight reflecting off Stark's mask.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter walked by and stopped to watch Conner playing with a small ball. Yes, his smirk is related to his talk with Anders the night before.

[stykera]

"Hello Walter!" Stark said cheerfully.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Walter!" Conner called. Not processing the smirk just yet.

[nadiathesaint]

"Hey, you!"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

After cleaning up the living room after the documentary showing, Sakurazaki stetches out her arms over her head as she drifts outside to investigate the voices coming from the campfire. "Evening, all," she says, with the type of yawn that signifies a pretty good day.

[stykera]

Stark waved. "Tired? It went well, with your movies."