Lupus Campfire, Monday afternoon

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella found a letter from Char in her mail, so she was happily rereading it after she stoked a small campfire and set some bread borrowed from her class near it to toast.

It sounded like Ayortha was dreadfully dull. She'd have to write a good letter, then, to cheer him up. She drafted a reply in her head as she waited for her meal to be ready.

[OOC: Open like a campfire. Blair's thread is after any others chronologically.]

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[gameknowsgame.livejournal.com]

After the weekend Blair was in a foul mood. The island's new proximity to France wasn't helping. Seeing a familiar face meant that Blair's foul mood had a target.

"You," she said, flatly.

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"Me?" Ella asked, frowning a little at Blair's tone.

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"I suppose your weekend was fine," Blair said.

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"I spent Saturday in bed with a headache, but Sunday was all right," Ella said, not sure where Blair was going with this. "And yours?"

[gameknowsgame.livejournal.com]

Headache. Which meant no radio. Which meant possibly Ella didn't know.

"The same," Blair replied, waiting to see if Ella would believe it.

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella had not yet figured out how the radio worked, and no one had mentioned ponies to her on Sunday, so she was innocent of any reason Blair would be lying. "That's good, then," she said, going to turn her bread before it got too darkly toasted.

[gameknowsgame.livejournal.com]

Blair decided to sit down. "It was intolerably uncomfortable. I have no idea how they think they can claim what's in those cabins as proper bedding."

[isourking.livejournal.com]

"Hello," Ron greeted Ella as he returned from his workshop. "How are you today?"

He knew he had met Ella before but the name was a little hazy from all the rum he had drank that day."

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"It is an excellent day!" Ella enthused at Ron. "My class was all about yummy things to eat, I've a letter from a friend at home, and we seem to be in France. How are you?"

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"Good. I punched a bag today," Ron said looking at his bruised knuckles. "It was... how do you call it? Cathartic or something? And-"

Ron stopped and gave Ella a bewildered look. "France?"

Ron wasn't known for his powers of observation.

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"Cathartic," Ella agreed. "And yes, France. Or at least that's what Mr. Bond said when he took us to a restaurant." She shrugged. "I'd never been there."

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"I've been there once," Ron said with a nod as he started to look for any of the coastline to see what had changed. "On my way to Egypt for a family trip. It was just briefly and seems like forever ago. Did you enjoy it?"

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"It was all right," Ella said. "He fed us loads of cheese, and bread, and seafood. Mostly it was just about the food, sine that's what the class is."

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine was heading back from town with a bag of marshmallows, because you couldn't go to camp without roasting marshmallows at least once, and besides, the exercise was good, right? Right, which is why she was puffing as she made her way into the campgrounds, and instead of walking to her own cabin to light a fire, she just collapsed beside the nearest one that was already lit.

"Phew," she said as she settled down on a log. Then when she had her breath back a bit, she waved sheepishly. "Hi. Long walk."

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"Hi!" Ella said, waving back at the girl. "Where were you walking from?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"Town," Francine answered, holding up her bag of marshmallows, then glancing around for appropriately-sized sticks. When she found one, she looked up again and smiled. "You're in Mr. Bond's class, aren't you? I'm Francine."

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"I am!" Ella nodded. "It was fun today, wasn't it, to try all the different foods. My name is Ella."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Oh my God, it was amazing." Francine waved her stick around for emphasis, then reached to rip open the bag of marshmallows and actually impale one.

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"I don't think I knew there were that many kinds of cheese," Ella grinned, then eyed the marshmallows. "Are those for sharing?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

The idea of the island moving yet again was actually pretty cool. Isabel just wished it would move somewhere with a temperature that allowed for swimming and other beachy summer activities.

Pulling her fleece more tightly around her she stopped by the fire. "Hi. Want company?"

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"Surely," Ella said agreeably, waving at the girl. "You look cold."

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"A little," Isabel admitted. "Not that it's all that cold. I think it's just that it's May. And I want summer. Instead we get this. It feels more like March."

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Ella concentrated on the weather for a moment. "It does, doesn't it?" she agreed. "I'm trying to get used to the idea the island itself moves. I'm Ella, by the way. I can't remember if we've met before."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"We haven't," she smiled. "I'm Isabel, newly graduated senior. Nice to meet you. As for the island moving? It's weird, but in the grand scheme of Fandom weirdness makes perfect sense."

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"I'm to be a junior in the fall," Ella explained. "Nice to meet you, Isabel."

"I suppose it does at that. He --" She nodded to Ron "-- was just filling me in on things like children and amnesia."