Starburst Campfire [Saturday, Late Morning]

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Chuck had acquired a talky ten-year-old, somewhere between the time he went to bed on Thursday night, and been woken up on Friday morning with an unending stream of Japanese chatter in his ear.

... And no Gameboy.

They might not understand each other on a linguistic level, but they did have some very similar tastes in food and entertainment, at least. So this wasn't so bad, and they were out near the campfire (unlit, because he didn't trust himself near open flames, let alone himself with a little kid), entertaining him throwing stones to try and knock targets, empty cans and the like, off the logs around the fire pit while trying to encourage him to eat the odd slice of cold pizza for breakfast between rounds.

[[Open campfire!]]

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Lindsay was once again sitting on the front steps of her own cabin when she spotted people at one of the other campfires. She, along with her human jacket, wandered over.

"Hey Chuck," she greeted, spotting the ten-year-old. "You too, huh?"

She assumed he knew what she meant.

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Chuck, peered around her at the guy... who he guessed from that introduction, wasn't usually. "One of those weekends, I guess?" he offered, nodding his yes to that question.

"Doing alright with... everything?" Read: probably finding a strange man sleeping on her floor one morning. That had to be weirder than a Japanese kid under your bed.

... Or possibly not.

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"Definitely one of those weekends," Lindsay agreed. "Doing as alright as I can. Um, anyway, this is uh...do you even have a name?"

"Call me whatever you want since I'm owned by you. Well, technically, I'm owned by your dad."

"Right. Uh, This is usually my army jacket," she told Chuck.

The jacket waved. "Hey."

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"Heeey... Jacket." Somehow that was better than just leaving it nameless. "Am I allowed to call you whatever I like, like that?" It had seemed fitting, but was probably something worth asking, out of politeness.

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"Sure," the jacket replied with a shrug.

"He's pretty mellow," Lindsay explained. "And agreeable."

Which surprised her since he was made for a war.

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"Mine is not mellow." As might be obvious since he throwing stones at cans with one hand, eating pizza with the other, and managing to do both with a surprising amount of enthusiasm.

"Meet... my Gameboy." Chuck didn't bother with the ear-covering this time around. "I'm going with 'Little Guy'." Endearing nicknames over calling him a piece of electronics.

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"That's cute," Lindsay said, smiling at the name. "Sometimes I think about calling this guy "Stoner," that's how mellow he can be."

The jacket raised an eyebrow. "Except drugs are bad."

Lindsay was almost certain he was saying this because there was a ten-year-old in their vicinity.

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"I... have never done them," Chuck admitted, catching some of that vibe and shooting a glance towards the little dude with the stones. "But if the after school specials... and you, say so, who am I to disagree, right?"

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"I think they show one of those at my school every year," Lindsay said. They weren't any more effective than those lame skits the Sober Students perform as far as she could tell anyway.

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"Oh, well I am happy to report, that I have not been forced to sit through one in the year I've been here." Which, he imagined, meant they wouldn't have to in the next one. With any luck.

"I think they figure we've got so much of... this--" he said, indicating Jacket and Li'l Gameboy Kid "--No offence." To Jacket. "That drugs are a little unnecessary." This whole island was trippy, no help required.

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"There are enough weird things happening here to make us feel like we're on drugs already," Lindsay said, shaking her head in slight amusement.

"Point," Jacket added.

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"Actually, I have got away really lightly lately," Chuck admitted. "Um, you know, games console turned small kid aside."

"... Which is terrifying, because obviously its going to come bite me now."

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"So have I, now that I think about it," Lindsay admitted. "Should we be expecting something terrifying soon?"

She really hoped she didn't just jinx everything.

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"I really hope not?" Chuck did not want to be the one to have jinxed it all. "I'm not great with terrifying. I'll... flail, and run into walls, and-- That sort of thing." It wasn't pretty.