Chupacabra Campfire [Tuesday Evening]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

One workshop on explosions, one more day spent avoiding Luke and Gavin's back at the campfire. He's not hiding this time, but he's still prepared to run should anyone mention quarters or tigers or 'angels.'

After his workshop, he'd gone into town and picked up ten bars of chocolate. Yes, ten. Look, they might taste different, okay? Of course, Gavin's not thinking of chocolate plus fire equals a mess. He's too busy trying to decide which to try first.

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

It wasn't as if Setsuna wanted to spend a lot of time near her own cabin right now anyway, but she did notice that she'd drifted here again and sighed. At least it seemed to have been a few days...

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Hello," Gavin said, waving. "Want some chocolate?"

He still had about seven bars.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

As if a frustrated girl who'd had a bad day and kept mysteriously ending up at this cabin could refuse chocolate. Setsuna waved back. "Ahh, um, sure. That's rather kind of you, thank you."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"I'm Gavin," he said and nodded towards her assortment of moddable candy bars. "Gotta preference?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Setsuna," she introduced herself with a nod before peering over the choices. "Oh, just that regular chocolate bar would be great."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Good to meet you, Setsuna," he said and passed her the chocolate bar. "I'm new to candy bars. That's why I have so many."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"New to...?" Setsuna blinked. "Oh! You're not from around here, then?" Her head tilted.

Since when had 'not from around here' been terminology for a different time, space, and/or dimension for her?

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"I'm not," he confirmed. "I'm from a planet called Tatooine. Very, very far away."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Just earth for me," Setsuna smiled a little, her shoulders shrugging. "This version and time, even. What's...Tatooine like? Is it similar, or very different?"

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Setsuna," Karal said, smiling warmly at her. "It has been days since I've seen you. Has the cabin lost it's appeal?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Apparantly not," Setsuna gave a faint smile back, "as I'm back now. It did seem to slack a bit, but I think perhaps it was just due to other obligations keeping me from being idle..."

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Well, for whatever reason, it is good to see you back here." He looked away, smiling shyly at that. "Have you been well?"

[ooc: work is eating my brain - I'm gonna be slow - sorry.]

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Not...quite," Setsuna admitted, truthfully, because part of her was wondering if she just seemed to turn up here when she was distressed, because... "Things were going well for a while. She sighed a little, certain Karal didn't need to hear about her problems, but, well, he did ask, and she needed to vent. "Remember that friend I mentioned to you? Well, we seem to be at it again. I just can't win with her, it seems..."

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"I am sorry, Setsuna," he said with a long sigh. "It is hard to be at odds with a friend. May I ask what the conflict about?" He smiled reassuringly at her, one hand held out in an invitation to talk. "It might be that telling another will help you find a way through this."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna was quiet for a moment as she tried to find a...good way to explain without...giving away too much that she wasn't exactly willing to talk about. Even just trying to dodge around some of it had her cheeks a little pink. "Um...let's just say...a...conflict of interests." And an extremely stubborn head, she added bitterly to herself and sighed again. "A...situation has popped up that seems to make it painfully clear that her method of handling a situation is severely different than my method, and she is not satisfied with me pursuing my method....at all."

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I can see that would cause problems," he said, turning it over in his head. He noticed the blush, and he was wuite curious about what might be prompting it, but he was not going to ask. "Setsuna, is it her problem to resolve or is it yours?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna drew in a breath. "I feel...that the ball is in her court now, so to speak, but I'm sure she is feeling the same about me. Either way, she made a request of me; I fulfilled it to what I felt was sufficient. I...worry that this was not how she expected it to be and, because of that, she feels as though I have not fulfilled it at all..." As she spoke, slowly and thoughtfully, she was wondering if there could possibly be a more circular approach to explaining this, and it didn't look like there could be....So she hoped Karal could at least follow it a little.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Charlie said, waving to the girl she didn't know. "I think you're in one of my classes? Setsuna?"




[*facepalm*]

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Hm?" Setsuna's head turned and she caught the girl's wave, returning it as she nodded. "Um, yes, that's correct. You would be..." She thought back; she seemed vaguely...Ah, that's right. They introduced themselves in Art and Crafts today and she was among them.... "Charlie, is that right? Are you...also in Deadpool's class?"

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"That's it, yeah," Charlie said, nodding. "Hi again. Did you get any good ideas for annoying Aly? I couldn't come up with any, I was too worried about it."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Not particularly," Setsuna admitted. "I'm actually quite reluctant to annoy her, as Alianne-sensei is one of my favourite teachers. It hardly seems productive to annoy my favourite teacher, although, really, if I'm doing it correctly, she won't know it's me. However, I can't even concieve of a method in which to complete the task..."

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"I don't know her all that well, and she's teaching me to blow things up, which is cool." Charlie shook her head. "Professor Deadpool's kind of... yeah, anyway." She smiled as brightly as she could. "You're from Japan, I guess?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna grunted. "Don't even get me started on Deadpool...." Drawing in a deep breath, though, she latched on to that last, happier topic. Well, sort of happier. If there was anything today accomplished, it was to make her wish she'd gone back home for the summer after all. "But, yes, I'm from Japan. How about you Where do you call home?"

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Hastings Glen, New York. Little town you've never heard of," Charlie said, not sure if she should push about Professor Deadpool, and deciding to drop it in favor of the other topic. "Mostly because people only one hour away have never heard of it." She smiled. "I'd like to visit Japan, someday-- have you been here at this school long?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"I started here last summer," Setsuna said with a nod, thinking about how much simpler things seemed back then...She gave a little emo sigh. "You've just started yourself, correct?"