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Main Campfire - Morning before classes

Weather still too hot. Check. Cabin stinking of leeches. Check. Half naked boy. Check. Half naked boy eating. Check.

Hopefully those thunderstorms wouldn't take much longer to reach the island, but for now it was dry and Jake had taken up position at the main campfire. There was a bag from J,GOB resting on the ground between his feet. He was planning on just eating it all by himself, but if you'd ask nicely enough he might be willing to share.

Might.

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Warren really didn't have much of a reason to be out and about this early in the day. He didn't have any classes today, and he could very well be sleeping in at this very moment, were it not for the combination of restlessness that things said to him earlier in the week brought, and the fact that he felt claustrophobic as all heck, crammed into a little alcove like that.

"Morning," he greeted, nodding at the boy who was already there before pulling up a seat. "Expecting another hot one, huh?"

At the rate the day was going, muggy and hot as it was, Warren was half tempted to pull his own shirt off as well.

"My philosophy is to always be prepared for hot ones," Jake smirked. That and he'd just slept wolf shaped outside again. He'd just been too lazy to go back to the cabin and brave the stink. "I'm considering a move to the Arctic."

"You have food," Didi observed as she approached the campfire.

It wasn't quite asking nicely, but it did come with puppydog eyes....

"If you promise to take me with you, I'll even fund the expedition," Warren replied, smiling faintly. "The great outdoors would be so much better if they came with air conditioning."

Warren didn't really get out much, growing up. It probably showed.

"I do," Jacob agreed, holding up the muffin he was eating. "Good food too."

Look, he was going to resist the puppydog eyes for half a second, so he might as well use it to be evil while it lasted.

Jake snorted. "I don't disagreed right now. You've got money to spare?" he asked, not really used to people offering a funding.

"For a trip to a cooler climate, I'm certain I'd be able to scrape up the cash somehow."

Warren gave a dismissive shrug. He'd be able to find enough spare change for something like this between his couch cushions, if he had a couch.

"You can't tell me it wouldn't be worth it, when it's this hot already, and the day's barely started."

"You seriously don't need to convince me," Jake agreed. "I'll probably go try to be a fish once class is over."

"Are you prone to random transformations into aquatic animals often?" Warren laughed a bit, shaking his head. "I might be right behind you there, too. I'm not much of a swimmer, but I can totally see the draw of the beach on a day like today."

Even if it would leave him looking like a big, soggy gull. It would be distracting, at least. And cool.

Didi would play along. "Good food that you're going to share?" she asked hopefully. "Or do you need it all? I wouldn't want to stunt your growth by taking food out of your mouth."

Jake laughed and shook his head. "Nah, aquatic animals are too scaly. Stink too much too, but I suppose you wouldn't notice underwater."

"Yes, and I so need to grow some more," said the boy who'd grown over two feet since he'd arrived. He obviously needed every muffin to get to 7'.

"Perhaps," Rosalind drawled, with a quirk of her lips. "You'd be best living in the ocean today if you're shirtless already."

That was hello. On some planet.

"I can do a lot of things," Warren mused. "Breathing underwater is not one of them, so far as I'm aware. I guess if the sea animals were growing legs and trying to come up into the sunshine to get out of the cold, it would be a bigger issue."

And also? Weird.

"I'm planning on it once I finished class," he grinned up at her, accepting that as an hello on Rosalind planet. "You should go buy that swimsuit and come join me."

That was hello back.

"Please don't tempt them," Jake chuckled. "We're at Fandom, they just might do that and then we'll not only be too hot, it will be stinking of fish left too long in the sun."

Didi rolled her eyes. "Careful," she warned. "Get much taller and you won't fit in the cabins."

"I don't think I care much," he said. "There's a fucking bloodsucker in mine."

He grabbed the paper bag from the ground and held it out to her.

"And once again, evolution takes a back seat to hot summer days. It's probably for the best. They'd be trying to turn into dinosaurs or something, next." Warren gave his shoulders a shrug, reaching for a stick to idly turn over in his hands. "If there's one thing Fandom has taught me, it's that I'm no good with dinosaurs."

"Nice language," Didi said, frowning hard and ignoring the bag. "Y'know, there are a couple terms for Native Americans, too. I'm pretty sure you don't like them."

"Yeah?" Jake asked, reaching into his bag for a donut. Mmmm donut. "Did you get bitten when they invaded?"

"You're like a broken record," she said, glancing around and choosing to remain standing for once. "Did you know that?"

Jake shrugged. He called them bloodsuckers, they called him a mutt. He didn't see a problem with it. "I'm sure I heard some of them too," he agreed and placed the bag on the log beside him. She could get it if she wanted.

"It was during that fog," Warren replied. "I never did face down a dinosaur myself, but when that huge thing came stomping over the island..." He shrugged. "I spent most of that inside, wincing whenever it screeched."

And so he felt like a complete chickenshit.

"It was a little more over my head than those vicious gremlins that invaded. Those gave me a few bites, but nothing that I didn't heal from."

"Sure sure," he nodded. "One of those you can't toss out for sentimental reasons."

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