Main Campfire [Tuesday, Evening]

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Effy had spent most of the past four days avoiding people. Something that was probably a good move on her part, and for everyone, considering that she wasn't the most openly friendly sort to begin with, and that would really only be compounded by jetlag and getting sent away to this fucking place. Boring as Bristol was, she couldn't say this was somewhere she particularly wanted to be either.

A few days on, she'd begun to see the attraction of certain parts. In this case, the attraction of getting to sit out by a roaring fire, poke idly at the embers at the edge with a stick, and watch them glow and fizzle with the air.

This was actually not bad, and for the moment even quiet.

And occasionally, she sat back to swig from a plastic water bottle she was keeping away from the flames. Chances were, it didn't actually have water in it.

[[Open like a big open campfire.]]

Comments

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"They're the only ones worth my time," Chuck said. That might very well be true. "And I guess the big one could be classified as human."

And yet the actual monkey dresses better than him.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"And yet, you're alone," he pointed out.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Maybe I just feel like being alone right now, did that ever occur to you?" Chuck asked.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I really wasn't thinking that hard about you," Alex said, shrugging. "Travesty, I know."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"And yet you're the one that started talking to me in the first place," Chuck said. "Something about me interests you."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You look like a girl I once knew," he said, shrugging. "Sure it happens to you a lot."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck gasped and put a hand up against his chest. "A girl? Anything but that! How your quick wit wounds me."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, someone knows sarcasm," Alex noted. "You're doing better than a few people here."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"I'm fluent in it," Chuck said. "I'm just glad you picked up on it. Some people aren't so good at that part either."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I've had it flung at me enough to pick up on it," he said, shrugging. "It's nice not to have to spell it out, though. I keep having to do that."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Well that's the problem with having people from different times and planets here," Chuck said. "It seems sarcasm is only a recent development in history. And of course some people are just fucking morons."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Do you have enough pull to get those people to wear signs?" Alex wondered. "It'd be helpful."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"I think that'd be too much like when the Nazi's made the Jews wear those stars," Chuck said. "Even I can't get away with that."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Too bad." So sad. "It'd be helpful. Hell, it'd be helpful in the general population."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Not going argue with you there," Chuck said with a slight smile. It wouldn't be the first time he wanted to do something like that.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Because this trial and error of talking to people is like a dangerous game of Russian Roulette," he decided.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"After some conversations with people here I think I'd almost welcome a bullet to the head," Chuck said. Sad thing was he wasn't kidding.