The Valley Campfire: Monday Afternoon

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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.

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"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."

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"No meat," Layla assured her. "It's coagulated soy milk that's been processed into different forms. This one has been made into something that tastes similar to a hot dog. But not quite."

[trigons_child]

"Then yes, I would like to try one," Raven said. She sat near Layla and chose a stick. "I am Rachel," she said to introduce herself. "I am living in the Bitterwoman cabin."

[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?"

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"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?"

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"Hi Rachel," Layla said with grin as she offered her a stick. "I'm Layla Miller. I know stuff."

[Okay for Layla to "Know" things about Rachel?]

[trigons_child]

"Stuff?" Raven said, studying how Layla was cooking her tofu and imitating her actions, piercing the not dog with the stick and holding it over the fire, close enough to cook but not too close so that it would burn. "What manner of 'stuff'?"

[Sure, have at! :) ]

[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."

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"Oh this and that," Layla replied. "And the fact that you never had a tofu dog before."

[life_inshadow]

Tara nodded. "Yeah. It's fine. Just ... putting things together, you know?"

She shrugged. "How were you encyclopedias?"

[life_inshadow]

The ultimate shyness showdown of ultimate destiny!

Tara nodded. "And ... uh, Raven, right? The meeting was kind of overwhelming."

[trigons_child]

"You know that because I asked you what it was," Raven pointed out.

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"I turned into a set of them," Layla replied, "Which isn't uncommon around here. Most people tend to turn into animals but apparently the island has a sense of humor."

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"Would you believe that I knew you were going to ask me what it was?" Layla asked mischievously.

[trigons_child]

"Yes -- no! It is Rachel," Raven said, staring at Tara. She was a witch, had she read her mind to see her true name? She strengthened her shields, not wanting Tara to read anything else about her.

[trigons_child]

"You are telepathic?" Raven said. She knew there were those with such power on the island, but she had hoped to avoid their notice.

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"Nope," Layla replied as she rotated her tofu dog. "I just know stuff."

[life_inshadow]

Tara wrinkled her nose. "I heard. I r-r-really hope it lets me stay girl-shaped. But you didn't get any paper cuts or anything when you turned back?""

[life_inshadow]

Tara flushed, and her stammer was especially pronounced when she next spoke. "Rachel. I -- I must have been more overwhelmed than I thought. I'm sorry."

She added, "At least they kind of sound alike?"

[trigons_child]

"Do you know...everything?" Raven said, just a little nervous, especially after her destiny and free will class.

[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?"

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"Oh, no," Layla replied. "Mostly I was just stiff and feeling a little fuzzy headed. A walk to town cleared that up for the most part. I just wished I was something a little more mobile, especially for everything coming to life this weekend."

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"Oh no," Layla said shaking her head. "I don't know everything. A lot of things but not everything. Otherwise I'd have to introduce myself as knowing everything and that would be even more annoying than just knowing stuff."