Lupus Campfire, Monday afternoon

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

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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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"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?"

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

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

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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.

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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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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."

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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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Ella looked sympathetic. "I know, there's a huge lump in my mattress just under my left shoulder that I can't seem to get out. I've started sleeping at an angle to it."

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"There's dirt everywhere," Blair said. "I don't even want to consider what bugs might be crawling around."

Especially after an entire day of her and her cabinmates being ponies.

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Ella hadn't thought of that, but, thinking, she knew what Blair meant. "My roommate mentioned something about someone who was to clean the alcoves, but either he doesn't come by often or he doesn't do a very good job," she decided. "I suppose we can suffer through it for a few more weeks."

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"There's maid service?" Blair asked. Okay, a male maid but a servant was a servant.

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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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"I'm not sure," Ella admitted. "Turtle said something but I was busy being horrified about her boyfriend's dog so I didn't ask questions. She might know more."

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Blair remembered Turtle as being the one who owned a store. Which for an adult depended greatly on the store. For a high schooler it held potential for being impressive. Still,

"I don't feel like waiting until housekeeping decides to finally do its job," Blair said.

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"You could clean yourself," Ella (who was starting to get an uncomfortable idea where exactly this was going) suggested mildly. "It's not that hard."

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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."

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"Mine seems to be about hitting people and sex," Ron grumbled. "Somehow I seem to get put in the abnormal courses."

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"Please." Blair flipped her hand in a sign of dismissal. "You've got to be joking. I've far too many important things to be spending my time on."

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"Hitting people might at least be useful," Ella noted, not touching that other course with a ten-foot pole. "I've food, kings and queens, and vacationing. The vacationing one is rather odd; it was all about robots and running."

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"Then live with it," Ella said breezily, picking up her bread and crunching into it. "It's not too long, anyhow."

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"Doesn't sound much like a holiday to me," Ron mused. "Then again everything on this island seems a bit backward to me."