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Millard Filmore Campfire - Monday lunchtime - 5/18

Liir had been playing his usual game of avoidance for the weekend and thus decided to do something about it.

That was why he was out with a lit fire, putting sticks into the ground around the fire with a few different kinds of sausages, hoping to provide a little lunch and maybe, just maybe, see people. He wasn't worried about the sausages, even though he wasn't that hungry.

Makejoy, growing girl that she was, looked as if she'd eat every last one if no one came.

[open like a fire!]

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"I've been remiss in f-forcing myself to socialize," she said ruefully, as Yei chased after the tail. "So other than class and the store I have l-little to talk about. Well enough, though, beyond that personal failure."

"I'm about the same, though apparently I managed to irritate someone at one of the parties the other day. So double failure."

He picked up one of the bluetaped sticks.

"I'm glad to see you didn't head home for the summer."

Makejoy made her tail a bit of a challenge. This was fun!

"You m-managed to irritate someone?" she asked curiously. "And no, I wouldn't go home for the summer unless my father said I must."

Yei was in complete agreement that this was fun!

"I knocked into her and somehow projected my emotions at her rather painfully. I don't know quite how it happened but it was a mess."

He breathed out.

"Perhaps that is her skill?" Hinata suggested, tugging at the grass with her fingers. "Empathy, I m-mean. That would be a burden."

"Possibly," he admitted, "though it more than likely also means that I haven't been maintaining my own precautions properly. I'm not the best at that, really."

It was either too closed off where he couldn't feel anything or too open where everything seemed to slip through.

She glanced at him. "You have your o-own precautions about broadcasting?"

"I have my own precautions about what I let slip out and what I let slip in. If I listened to everything, I'm reasonably sure I'd go insane."

He'd learned to filter some out as he'd grown up, but even that was only a secondary measure.

"Regardless, it was a good reminder. It's never bad to practice a skill you're not good at, right?"

"Of course not," she said, settling herself a little more comfortable, and looking a bit startled at the question. "If w-we only practiced what we were good at nothing would ever get done--no one is b-born being good at something."

He didn't quite agree, but he knew that was his pessimism talking and promptly shut it up

"Exactly."

He took a bite of the sausage, quirked his lips, and put it back. Just a little longer.

...the children were having fun, it seemed. Makejoy was bouncing a little.

"Though there is the trouble with conversation."

"Continuing it, or how it is often a-awkward?" Hinata asked, laughing as Yei managed to miss her next leap for Makejoy's tail and tumbled paws over head to the ground with an indignant mew.

Makejoy paused and nudged at her with her nose to make sure she was all right.

"How once you stop doing it," he noted with a sip of lemonade, "it's harder to start. Because then you don't have anything to talk about."

That meant Yei just had roll over and bat at Makejoy's ears. Hey, ears!

"True enough," she admitted. "Not u-unless you're willing to discuss things that are personal, and with near strangers that isn't something I would be comfortable with."

Makejoy thus had to try and lick her.

"Exactly. Or something boring. I could go on for ages about the reading I've been doing, but I know it's nothing anyone would want to hear about."

That came with a quick smile.

"Same for me and the countless h-hours of training," Hinata admitted. "Time well spent, but it gives little to talk about."

It was a rather large tongue compared to a rather small cat, and Yei gave another indignant protest as she scrabbled to get away from the tongue.

Makejoy lolled her tongue as if to laugh before turning a little more to give Yei the tail to chase again.

"Are you trying out for the play then?"

There. A subject they could talk about.

"I'm not sure," she admitted. "Or, better I guess, to say that I h-haven't decided yet. I think I should try out, but I also wonder if it might be better to sit out one and try other ways of talking to people."

Not that Hinata had any idea of how to go about that.

"Starting a club or something?" he questioned thoughtfully.

"That's an idea."

She blinked at him.

"Me? Start a club?"

He nodded.

"Why not? I was thinking of doing it fall semester myself."

Because she'd have to talk to people! And stand in front of them and come up with things to do and say and try not to trip over her own tongue.

"I have n-nothing that might make a good club," she said, sitting on the rest of her objections.

He quirked his head.

"You don't?"

"I don't think I d-do?"

"I'm just going to start a gooseball, er, soccer club," he explained, as if to say 'it's not a big deal'.

Her grin turned slightly rueful. "I still d-don't think I do," Hinata said.

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