Main Campfire | Wednesday Night | 5.26.2010

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter didn't particularly want to gather a crowd, but making a campfire and tossing black snakes and firecrackers at it seemed particularly amusing today.

So yeah, there was definitely a bit of noise. Peter wasn't a blossoming pyro or anything, he was just a bored teenager. Anyone was definitely welcome to join him. He might even have some moddable extra bits of fireworks.

[ooc: Open like an open space!]

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[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine," she said with a quick smile. "Worried about him, and irritated over the cabins, but otherwise fine. Are you okay? Time travel aside -- things are okay?"

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"I'm alive, so I'm always okay," he said, but forgot he was talking to someone who had mental reading things going on. He was not okay, not even a little. There were brief glimpses of what he was thinking of while he lied to her, of barging in on a large African-American man who was beating the hell out of Toby Ziegler a man tied to a chair, of glowing red eyes staring down at him and of dark tunnels full of sick, tired, dirty people. "It was a long couple of months, but I'm okay."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

She hadn't been planning on intentionally probing, but Sookie recognized a lie when she saw one. Hence, she lowered her shields just enough to take a quick peek, and even if she hadn't seen the images -- and she did catch a glimpse -- the emotions roiling off of Kyle alopne were enough to startle her. "...are you sure?" she ventured, a little quietly. "I don't mean to pry, it's just -- it's hard to lie to a telepath, Kyle."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

That expression? Kyle's busted expression. He tried to clarify. "I'm okay here. Home isn't okay any time, but I think," he paused to think of what to say. "I think it's getting worse. But I'm here and I can't change that here. I'm just okay." He wasn't sure if that made sense.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"You can't change anything while you're here," she parsed, frowning a bit. "But you know things aren't going well back home? I don't suppose there is a way you can help from here?"

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Kyle shook his head. "I can only follow my orders and do what I have to do here. It kind of sucks." He managed a smile.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"It really does," she said sympathetically. "And I suppose your orders are to stay here. I mean, for whatever it's worth, at least you're safe here. And when you graduate, you'll be able to go home and work on things -- you're sort of...being preserved."

It was similar to what she'd said to Karla a week or so ago.

[I fell asleep. D:]

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Every army needs a second line," Kyle nodded, coming to the same realization. "It's a good place to train. So you were saying you're not liking the cabins? Someone causing trouble?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Not exactly. Close quarters for someone with mind-sensitivity, is all," she admitted. "I'm dealing with it. No one's like, starting fistfights in my cabin or anything."