Little Dipper Campfire, After Dark

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Anyone passing by would hear a great deal of swearing in Chinese, but probably wouldn't be able to see much in the dark.

Inara had (rather reluctantly) discovered that starting a campfire was much more complicated than it looked, particularly when one had never done it before.

Any help would probably be vastly appreciated.

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[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee wandered out, watching for a second before cheerfully asking, "Need some help?"

[solo_sword]

Jaina had been venturing out of her cabin, not necessarily headed toward her roommate's, but it didn't take a Jedi long to figure out who the frustrated one was. "Having fun yet?" Jaina said, almost cheerfully.

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"Yes, please," she said gratefully, kicking just a bit of dirt onto the fire. Or what would have been the fire. "It looked so easy before."

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Kaylee moved over, trying to see what Inara was using to start it. "Don't do too much of this at home, huh?"

[sonofmogh.livejournal.com]

Worf watched for a moment. "Do you require assistance? Perhaps more firewood?"

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"I'm not above braiding your hair to the bed, just so you know."

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Inara was using a collection of damp grasses, leaves, and very large sticks. "We don't have many campfires, unfortunately."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Hey, look, someone Kaylee didn't know. "Hi! Are you in this cabin too an' I've managed to miss you?" Look, it was possible. She hadn't known the alien guy lived there until yesterday.

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"Would you happen to have a blowtorch?" She asked, blowing her hair out of her eyes. "I've given up on finesse at this point."

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"You're stuff's wet, to start with," Kaylee pointed out, smiling a little as she knelt to poke at the assembled foliage. "Y'need kindling, not big sticks an' wet grass."

[sonofmogh.livejournal.com]

"I have a phaser," Worf stated gravely. "But it is in the weapons locker and cannot be removed for this sort of thing."

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"What makes good kindling, then?" Inara asked, always happy to learn useful information. "Where did you learn how to do this?"

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"What is a phaser?"

[solo_sword]

"I still don't have enough hair to manage that," Jaina smirked. "Having trouble?"

[solo_sword]

"No," she said. "I'm over in Andromeda. I came to terrorize my roommate for a while. I'm Jaina."

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"Little sticks, bark -- dry stuff," she said helpfully. "And it's just somethin' I know. It's a useful thing to know where I'm from, 'case the power goes out or the generator busts or somethin'."

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"I'm Kaylee," she said, grinning. "Nice t'meet you. Are you new, too?"

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"I have certain skills," she said, mostly joking. "They just don't seem to extend to this, so yes. How's the new cabin?"

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"Does that happen frequently?" Inara sat down, then started separating out some little sticks that were on the ground around her. How was it she and Kaylee were from the same galaxy?

[solo_sword]

"Mostly quiet, though the campfire seems to attract a lot of rookies," she said. You know, after starting a campfire once. "How's it going over here?"

[sonofmogh.livejournal.com]

"An energy based weapon. Plasma is sent through a phaser emitter resulting in a discharge of nadion particles," Worf replied. "Like a laser. Only better."

[solo_sword]

"I'm practically a vet now," she said, and thought that was sort of fitting. "I've been here a full year now. I'm rarely bored."

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"I like not being one of the new people," she decided, "although the ones I've met are all very nice."

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"Better in which way?" She knew little to nothing about weapons, but remembered that Worf came from a warrior background and might be comfortable discussing this at more length.

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"Not a whole lot," Kaylee said cheerfully, plucking out a few of the smaller sticks. "But sometimes stuff don't get out near the rim fast as it should. So my daddy says we got to make sure we can make do with what we got, just in case."