Dinosaur Campfire [suppertime]

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla had helped her siblings and the manse children gather firewood for bonfires in Rainbow Valley more times than she could count, and so she knew she had the proper mix of kindling to larger logs.

There was only one little problem--as the youngest, she'd never been permitted to light the fire, and the sausages she'd brought out with her weren't going to cook themselves.

How irritating.

She said down on a nearby log with a little flounce of her skirts, hoping for one of the older students to come along and help a wee freshman out.

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[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Do you think he'll visit? Oh my goodness, would coming here count as his return? Do you think he'd bring Lancelot with him?"

Calm yourself, Rilla.

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

"If he'd been here before, it might count," Sara allowed, somewhat more calm if still distinctly excited. "And Merlin! D'you think we'd get a chance to meet them both?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"I didn't even ask about Merlin," Rilla said. "Isn't he vastly old?"

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

Sara's face fell a bit. "He would have to be, wouldn't he, to be Arthur's trusted advisor? But still, it would be fascinating to meet them . . . and just think, what if he brought any of the Knights of the Round Table back with him!"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"They were so dashing in the stories," Rilla sighed. "Do you think they were terribly handsome as well?"

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

"I like to think so," said a decisive Sara who had never gotten over the disappointment of Rachel Ward not being pretty. "How could they not be, with as many women pining after them as they had?"

Her lips quirked up in amusement. "Didn't your mother re-enact one of those stories once upon a time? We've heard stories about that."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla blushed. "You've heard about that?"

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

Sara smiled, hoping to put Rilla at ease. "Oh, word got around. You don't need to worry, though; when I heard it, it sounded charming."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"I'll have to tell Mother in my next letter home," Rilla decided with a tiny smile. "She'll laugh about it--my coming all the way to the States to hear stories about her in Avonlea."

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure you weren't expecting to meet someone else from our tiny little island in this great big place," Sara pointed out. "But isn't it grand?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure how I would have adjusted without it," Rilla said dramatically. "It's so comforting to hear the sounds of home."