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.

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[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.

[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]

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.

[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?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Hey," he said, putting on the brightest smile he could muster short of "stadium lights during a night game." "How're you doing tonight?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Sure!" Conner tossed the hacky sack to her. "Go for it."

He was still bracing himself for sudden outbursts of laughter.

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"I'm okay. Just had to pick up a few things I forgot in the dorms," Marie explained. "You?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner juggled the hacky sack from one hand to the other for a moment. "Pretty good. A little confused, though."

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"Confused about what?" Marie asked.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia gave it a few experimental kicks. It was not unlike football, though the ball reacted to kicks differently. She booted it back to Conner. "Just tell me you didn't name it."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Well, not confused so much, really," Conner said. "But feeling extra bad about what I did to you. Willow and Bel have both chewed me out something fierce, and I had no idea it upset you that much."

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie kind of stared at him. "Willow and Bel did what?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"It's a hacky sack. Why would I name my sack?"

Well. It was a perfectly innocent question.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn watched Conner quietly from slightly outside the campfire circle.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Chewed me out," he repeated, embarrassed. "The list of things they'll do to me if I don't make it up to you is getting really long -- not that I wasn't going to make it up to you anyway!"

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry" Marie said. "I didn't ask them to do that. I kind of figured the ice cream was good enough revenege."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

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

[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."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

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

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"I'll take your word for it," Pip responded. "What's hackey sack?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"It's kind of a beanbag that you kick around a lot?" She shrugged. "Yeah, I have no idea why you'd do that."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"...Ooookay. Whatever happened to normal hobbies?"