Odd Duck Campfire - Saturday, 8/23 - midafternoon

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir was mostly here because he had to had to think and it was one of the only nearby places he could think without much to distract him. If he was in his bunk, he'd grab a book. If he was at the gym, he'd start doing his stances. There were a few other places and they all had a few other things that kept him from going there and so he was around the campfire space, tossing a couple of chocolate chips into his mouth ever few minutes as he considered life, the universe, and everything.*

And if he kept giggling a little like a four year old every few minutes, well, what of it?

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[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Michael, on the way to his own cabin, stopped and stared.

"...okay, that is disturbing."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He looked over at Michael.

"Disturbing? What?"

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"You. Giggling."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Because it's me? Or because I'm simply that pleased?"

He didn't sit up. He was still grinning.

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Kind of both." Michael dropped to the grass. "Never seen you like this before, so spill."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He held out an orange to him. Don't ask where it came from, but it's a perfectly respectable and reasonable orange. It even tastes like orange, as someone's gotten over their mental block.

"Have you listened to the radio lately?" he asked.

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Michael accepted the orange and started peeling it.

"Not in the last couple days."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Someone came from my world, though thankfully not my time exactly," he said as he leaned back and popped a couple of chocolate chips from the bag.

He didn't want to think about his father during HIS time. That would be up there in the wrong and scary.

"Some months before I was born, actually."

He swallowed.

"Just walked into the store and asked me for the next play they're doing down at the play house, apparently. At least, that's what they said when I delivered dinner later."

He turned to look at Michael.

"My father, of all people."

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Michael stilled, but smiled a second later.

"Your father, huh? That's great."

He even sounded like he meant it unreservedly.

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"G-Good afternoon," she said quietly.

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Michael blinked over at her then, hearing the stuttering, offers a half-smile.

"Hey."

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

The smile got a rather tentative one in return, though not as tentative as it would have been a month ago.

"I d-don't think I've s-seen you around h-here before," she observed. "I a-am Hinata."

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Michael", he returned. "You new to the island, or we just didn't cross paths before?"

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

That got a bit of a grin. "I've b-been here s-since the b-beginning of summer," Hinata said. "So I d-don't think I c-count as n-new now."

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Newer than me", he said, grin turning crooked. "But yeah, not so much."

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

She laughed softly. "H-How long have y-you been here, t-then?"

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Months, now." He was surprised to realize that. "Summer and the semester before that."

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hinata was rather glad that she didn't have to go all that far to find Liir, she wasn't in the mood to go looking far.

"S-Should it be c-congratulations?" she asked him, smiling. "I h-heard on r-radio a-about your father."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He grinned.

"It doesn't have to be but they're appreciated," he said with a smile as he sat up.

"And how have you been, Hinata? I haven't seen you the last couple of days."

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"Congratulations, t-then. I'm glad," Hinata told him. "I've b-been keeping b-busy, though n-nothing so exciting as a p-parent as h-happened."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Keeping busy with anything interesting?" he asked as he held out the bag of chocolate chips if she'd like one.

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hinata thought it would only be polite to take one, and did, settling down on the ground.

"J-Johnny-san took me f-for a motorcycle r-ride." She grinned. "It was a l-lot of fun."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I don't have the first idea what that might be," he admitted. "But he was rather good at gooseball when we played."

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"It's l-like," she paused. "A m-mechanical b-bike? A-At least in a-appearance? But it's m-more like a c-car, in a w-way."

Hinata... was not the best with modern modes of transportation, no.

"G-Gooseball?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"A game where you kick about a ball into baskets at either side of a field without touching it with your hands," he specified. That was about the long and short of the rules, for the most part after all.