Near the Main Campfire - Wednesday afternoon - 5/20

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As there was a lovely grassy area between the main campfire and the gym and the weather was reasonably comfortable, Fiona brought out the blanket Robert had gotten for her during their trip and spread it on the ground for a bit of very mild sunbathing. It was more just to enjoy the grass and the light breeze and her book than to actually tan her skin, but all and all, it was a comfortable set up and it seemed, to her, a lovely way to spend the partially sunny afternoon.

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Jack waved as he walked past, in his signature tank top. Ah, sunshine!

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She looked up curiously, not having met Jack before.

"Hello."

The book was partially closed, her hand holding her page.

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"Hey! Enjoying the sun? It's great outside today."

Meet Captain Obvious Jack.

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She nodded and peered up above her at the sky.

"When it peeks out from the clouds, yes. Mostly I'm reading."

She pushed herself onto one side, then up to sitting and offered her hand.

"Fiona. Fiona Post. And you would be..."

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Jack crouched down. "Jack Burton. I take it you're new here?" he asked with a grin as he reached out to shake her hand.

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She gave it a firm shake.

"Very new. I've only been here something like two weeks now, just like the rest of us. Good to meet you, Jack."

She silently categorized him as 'second Jack' for the moment, as Jack Priest had been met first. She had a little thrill even as she realized she was meeting enough people to have gotten to seconds on a name.

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Jack, of course, was the Only Jack that he needed to worry about.

"So you liking it here? Aside from the sunbathing, that is." And the rain, and the snow, and the..

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She raised an eyebrow just a little but answered.

"I like it here very well. It's much different than what I'm used to but that's certainly not bad."

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"Oh? What are you used to?" He grinned. "This is a heck of a lot different than home, that's for sure."

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"Fiona!" Maron said brightly, dropping down close to her. "It is you! I wondered. What are you doing?"

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She smiled at Maron, in a generally good mood, and made more room on the blanket.

"Polishing my Japanese," she told Maron, "since I'll be helping someone learn English starting Friday. I want to make sure I write things correctly for him.

"How are you?"

She hadn't seen the other girl for a few days.

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She'd been busy!

Maron cheerfully settled herself on the blanket. "You know Japanese?" she asked excitedly. "Who're you teaching to--read?--English?"

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She nodded.

"I didn't have much else to do, so I usually focused on languages. Japanese isn't my best, but I do know it."

She swayed back and forth a little, cheerful herself.

"His name is Himura. He's from the past as well as Japan, so he's had a few things to adjust to here. Since I could help with the Japanese, I figured I should. Have you met him? He's sort of hard to miss."

What with the flaming red hair.

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"Maybe?" she said, tilting her head up at the sky. "I didn't get everyone's names at the shuttle--was he on the shuttle? Do you know?"

Then, in Japanese: "It's a very pretty language, I always think. I suppose that's national pride?"

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"I've always thought the written form was beautiful."

It had skirted dangerously close to 'art', which according to Rule 11 was a strict no no, which was why she'd gotten so interested in the first place. There were, of course, some of the more interesting medical texts and more than a few discussions on working metal in the language, but it was the writing that she'd mostly enjoyed.

"He was on the shuttle, though. Long red hair, always looks half annoyed, half nervous?"

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Maron searched her memory. "Oh!" she said. "And doesn't talk much? I asked him about Fandom High and he said he was there to 'learn... something' which I thought was rather vague all things considered."

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She shook her head and marked her place to close the book, finally.

"No, he doesn't talk much, though we get along rather well at the salle."

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That reminded Eleanor greatly of how she used to spend her stolen moments sitting in the field at Longacre.

...she found herself getting a bit homesick and brushed it aside.

"That looks quite comfortable," she remarked from somewhere overhead.

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"There's more room, of course," she said, moving over slightly. She realized she might have done it wrong as she looked up to see which side Eleanor was speaking from.

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Eleanor just giggled and moved to the vacated spot, going around if she had to.

"Thank you. Last time we spoke it was in rather hectic, but fun, surroundings. How have you been getting along since?"

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"I'm well enough. Making friends."

She looked over at Eleanor.

"What about you?"

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"About the same, I think. And classes of course. Miss Atredies is a bit more difficult than I was expecting."

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"Oh? I've not really had any trouble with her," she had to admit, "and her brother is a friend."

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"Oh, it's not Miss Atredies," she amended quickly, "it's the coursework. For example, the rock climbing on Monday. I'm not that ..." how to put it? "physically capable."

Cleaning, scrubbing and serving in a house don't exactly equate to mountain climbing.

And she didn't look terribly well-filled out either, really. There was muscle, but Eleanor had a bit of the look of the underfed about her.

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She turned to look at Eleanor carefully.

"Would you like some help the next time we have something like that?"

Fiona was good at slipping help in here and there; she and Eliot had done it all the time.