Lyndon B. Johnson Campfire; Tuesday Evening [ 05/12 ].

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

To say that Valentine's day had been interesting seemed a gross understatement. It had started with sentient books and ended with a haiku contest with a creature of unidentifiable species, and involved a very enthusiastic prince and sexuality somehow intermingled with talking object somewhere in between.

Valentine thought she could potentially go and visit one of the many campfires already surrounded by people, but....no. She was definitely done for the day. That was...quite enough for now.

She she was just going to tend to the fire outside her own cabin, poking and prodding at it and getting it going quite nicely, watching the way the flames consumed the wood and kindling, how the smoke drifted upwards and mingled in with the darkening sky.


[[ open campfire is open, of course, because there totes needs to be another one... ]]

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[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Hey little sis," Hurley said, plopping down. He had a bag in one hand.

"Ready for s'mores?"

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Valentine, at first, seemed a little hard pressed to look away from the fire, blinking at Hurley for a moment once she managed it.

She shook her head. "O..oh. Yeah. Sure. I mean, what's camp without s'mores, right?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Less delicious," Hurley said with a nod. "Settling in okay?"

He started pulling his fixings out of the bag.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Valentine nodded a little. "Fine," she said. "Had some workshops today, explored the town a little, reveled in how utterly huge the library is here."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Fan of books?" Hurley said, skewering a marshmallow.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"Fan of information," Valentine said. "Which books tend to have."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Heh, depends on the books," Hurley said. "I tend to... okay, I mostly read comics."

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"Yeah? What kind of comics?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Uhhh, whatever looks cool, really. I'm not too picky," Hurley said.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"So, like, superheroes, space battles, ninjas? I actually don't really know what a lot of comics books have in them. They weren't really my thing."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Hurley said. "Like, if it has all three, I'd totally be sold."

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"Superhero space fighting ninjas," Valentine considered this, and then nodded in agreement. "It does seem like a rather nice trifecta."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Totally," Hurley said. "I'm surprised we don't have anyone like that at school here."

He removed the marshmallow from the fire and smooshed it between chocolate and graham crackers.

"And this is for you."

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"Thanks, Hurley," Valentine smiled at the s'more. "It almost looks too good to eat."

Which, of course, wasn't stopping her from taking a nibble, especially since she'd had a really small lunch.

"And we might," she offered, "they're just really good at keeping it a secret."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Dude, who would want to keep something that awesome a secret?" Hurley said, skewering himself his own marshmallow.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," Valentine theorized, wiping a bit of marshmallow from the corner of her mouth, "if you were a superhero space fighting ninja, you'd understand."

It was interesting, really. Making light on something like that, because she knew at least a space fighting boy who was, to many, a superhero, and knew exactly why he kept it a secret.

If he was. Ender'd definitely thrown her through one with his bluntness about Peter.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Point," Hurley said. "I'm just good old fun time Hurley. No space battles or ninja-ing for me."

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"Is that so?" Valentine arched a conspiratorial brow. "Or is that simply what you'd want me to believe?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley chuckled. "Nope, sorry. I'm one of the normal dudes."

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"I understand," Valentine nodded her head. "You have to say that."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley gave Valentine a conspiratorial wink. "Sure I do."