The Valley Campfire: Monday Afternoon

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Layla yawned and stretched as she exited her alcove after five days of being a leather bound set of encyclopedias. She still felt a bit fuzzy and stiff for some strange reason. It wasn't as if she had actually spent the week in bed but she still felt like she had.

Taking the opportunity to stretch her legs, Layla ambled into town to purchase some provisions from the Quik Stop. She returned to the campfire ring with a cooler of drinks and some tofu dogs for roasting as well as the goods for the actual s'mores.

After building a fire, she sat back with a cool beverage and started roasting a hot dog. After spending a week as a set of books, some fire roasted vegetable protein sounded pretty darn good.

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[trigons_child]

Raven passed by the Valley campfire as she returned from classes to the campsite. She paused, looking curiously at Layla, or rather, what she was cooking. It did not smell of animal flesh, which she did not eat, but it looked like the meat she had seen some of the other students cooking over the fires. "Hello," she said. "May I ask what you are eating?"

Azarath didn't have tofu, you see.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Tofu dog," she said cheerfully. "Want one? I got some extra sticks here if you want to roast one up."

[trigons_child]

"Tofu?" Raven repeated the strange word. "It is not meat? I do not eat animal flesh."

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

Agnes smiled and waved. "Hello, Rachael," she said, even though she barely knew the girl. "How are you settling in to Fandom?"

[trigons_child]

"Hello," Raven said, giving Agnes a smile back. "It has take some adjustment, but I am enjoying my time here."

[life_inshadow]

After her class, Tara roamed back toward her cabin and settled on a rock, near the flames, mostly just to think.

And then she realized she was being weird and hadn't seen her cabinmate for a couple days. "Layla. Hey. Did you go home or something?"

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Hey Tara," Layla said with a wave. "Nope. I spent the last five days as a set of encyclopedias. You seem pretty deep in thought. Everything okay?"

[trigons_child]

"Hello," Raven said shyly, beginning perhaps what would be the ultimate shyness showdown. "You are Tara, correct? You were at the Magical Reserves meeting last week."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin perched on a rock nearby and waved merrily to Tara. "Hi!"

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Elena smiled at the other blonde. "Hey," she said. "Settling in okay?"

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

Agnes waved at Tara. "Still no biting," she announced.

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine was lured near by the smell of roasting... something that wasn't meat but still smelled like food. That she didn't have to cook. She wasn't big on cooking this week.

The moment of silent staring wasn't for the tofu dogs, once she realized what they were. It was for Firekeeper with blonde hair and no Blind Seer.

"...Firekeeper?"

[life_inshadow]

Tara waved -- a waggle of a few fingers, really. "Hi. Y-you don't live here."

Which came out way less friendly than she meant it -- mostly, she was trying to remember why the girl looked familiar and couldn't -- and so she was going to look kind of like she wanted to die. "That sounded way less mean in my head."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Not quite," Layla snickered. "Just her blonde doppelganger. Would you like a drink, Francine?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Hi Francine. Did you have any visitors this weekend?"

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Lugging around her laptop again, Valentine wasn't quite sure what she wanted to do with herself after her class today, but she did know she wanted to distract herself from it. The topic was one that left her a little bitter, and she didn't want to sulk. Seeing some activity around a campfire, she drifted over, taking a seat, and giving the customary wave around to everyone.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Hi Val," Layla said with a wave. "Tofu dog?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Funny how spending time as a human had left Robin's banjo out of tune. After fixing that, Robin went looking for people to hang out with, the instrument slung across his back.

"Hi Layla, how was your weekend?"

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"I was a bunch of books," Layla said with a shrug. "And yours?"

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

Agnes smiled at Robin and pointed at his banjo. "...You play?" she asked.

...Okay, it was a stupid question, but she wasn't exactly sure what one SAID to a frog.

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Elena was wandering back to her cabin, but couldn't help waving at Layla.

"Mind if I mooch a s'more?"

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Knock yourself out," Layla said waving back. "And no I don't mean literally."

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

"By tradition, s'mores have to be shared," Agnes pointed out. "I feel sorry for anyone who sits down at a campfire around here wanting to keep their s'mores to themselves."

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

Agnes walked over to try to be sociable, but she had to take a moment to peer at the tofu dogs. "I hope I don't sound awful," she told Layla, turning a bit pink as she did, "but I'm afraid there's something horribly wrong with your sausages."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Nope," Layla said taking a bite of her dog. "Not a thing really. I think you're mistaken."