Elegant Emu campfire: Friday night [8-22-08]

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Helen was feeling a bit disgruntled and rather homesick after her trip with the Doctor today. She'd also decided to try this s'mores thing and had marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers. Getting a fire going was no problem, but now she wasn't quite certain how to manage the heating up of the ingredients.

It was rather frustrating.

[Open as campfires are!]

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In the time it took to blink, Viki appeared out of nowhere. Now you see her, now you don't.

She didn't notice Helen quite yet though, more occupied with glancing around and trying to place where she was right now.

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Helen blinked at her sudden appearance, but just watched to see what the girl was going to do.

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"Well," she mused, with a tilt of her head. "It's at least closer than the warehouses, I should hope. Though not my campfire, I shouldn't think."

Hmmm.

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"Since I don't recognize you, probably not," Helen replied dryly, not even sure the girl had noticed her yet.

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Viki blinked over at the girl.

"I'm sorry," she said amicably. "I didn't see you there. What campfire is this, please?"

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"Elegant Emu," Helen said with an eye roll.

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"Well," Viki said. "At least you're not a duck. Though, really, no one in mine is really a duck though I suppose it is possible that it might happen..."

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"Of course I'm not a -" Helen cut herself off realizing what the other girl meant. "Oh. Well, no one here is an emu. Of course."

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"They might be somewhere," she said reasonably. "After all, back home there are warrior ducks. So I shouldn't think possible emu is so impossible."

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The girl was insane. That was all. Helen raised an eyebrow. "Warrior ducks, huh? How very nice for you."

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"They're alright," she said easily. "Though I like the Kobolds better, they're dogs you know, and there's cats too, but they aren't very sociable. Which, really, I suppose is much like a real cat so it shouldn't be a surprise."

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"So, your cats are like cats," Helen said, wondering how much trouble she'd get in if she covered this girl in spiders.

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Viki would teleport out of there, and then forget about it. She didn't hold grudges.

"No," Viki said. "Well, I suppose, some of them are. But some of them are warriors too and not just cats."

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"Oh, of course," Helen said, as if this made perfect sense.

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"You don't believe me, do you?" she observed.

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"It is a bit much to swallow," Helen admitted.

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"I don't lie," Viki said, glancing at her. "No point in it, really. People will believe what they want to believe and who am I to try and change it?"

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"If that's true, then you come from quite an interesting world," Helen said, still not quite ready to believe.

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That got a bit of a shrug. "It's a world, I suppose. It might even be this one, though I think that would be a bigger jump than any I've ever managed before. I wouldn't swear on it though."

A bit of a grin. "But then, with my memory, I shouldn't swear on anything."

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Helen's eyebrows went up again. "Ah... " she said succinctly.

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Viki blinked at her. "Yes?"

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"I... have no response to that."


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"To which part?" she asked patiently.

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"Pr-etty much any of it," Helen admitted.

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"It all made sense to me," she said, with a bob of her head. "Which, at least, is a comfort. I am Viki, how do you do?"

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"I'm Helen Haras-Uquara," helen said a little grumpily. "And other than the stupid food, I'm fine."

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"What's wrong with the food?" she wondered. "I shouldn't think it would have brains."

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Helen gestured to it. "How is someone supposed to heat these up over a fire?" she asked. "You can't just stick any of them in there."

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"Levitation?" Viki suggested mildly.

Even though that seemed like an awfully lot of work for food.

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"Or not," Helen said.

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"It's a perfectly valid solution," she pointed out.

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"If you can levitate, I suppose."

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"Just because you can't doesn't make the solution less valid," she noted. "But then, what do I know?"

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"Yes, well, I could say I would make the ingredients spontaneously heat themselves, but since I can't do it it's not particularly valid," Helen argued. "Or at least not useful."

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"Not every solution will be useful, I suppose," she mused. "Though valid is a different thing."

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Helen just rolled her eyes again. "Good luck finding your fellow ducks."

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She shrugged. "If they want to be found, I suppose I will."

And she blinked away from the campfire.