Locust campfire- Monday night

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The thing about Jaina's current situation was that she always felt like she had to be around people. It was beginning to get annoying. She took that as a good sign. And since she figured there'd be something wrong with her going to Caritas again, she headed out to the campfire, started a fire... and kind of regretted it because it was a little warm for that.

Whatever, there were marshmallows to be roasted and you couldn't do that over thin air.


[I cannot help it, she is all social lately. Open!]

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John was debating hitting the bar again. In this town, five nights in a row hanging with Tino meant nothing more than, well, not having enough friends. John's actual problem was that he knew Chuck opened Mondays and that was a conversation best left for...never.

So he headed outside to see about starting a fire, only to find one already burning. "Seriously, we have to quit meeting like this."

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"Make me," she said, looking up at him. "Marshmallow?"

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"I'll take three, thanks," John said, taking a seat on a log and holding up his hand to catch them.

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"Greedy," she teased, but opened the bag to send three levitating his way, just because she hadn't shown off in a while. "I warn you now, I'm not throwing any sticks at you if you need them."

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"What? People use sticks to eat these?" John asked, making a face at her as he snatched the marshmallows out of the air.

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"If you're going to roast them, sure," she said. "Hands really aren't great for that."

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John rolled his eyes and tossed a marshmallow in the air so he could catch it with his mouth. "Mrut it ates o ood!"

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"Impressive," she grinned. "Now what was that again?"

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He swallowed and smiled. "I was just pointing out how good they are raw."

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"You're missing out," she said, getting a marshmallow from the bag to put on the end of a stick. "They're better warm and mushy. I can't believe I just called something that."

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"I've had warm and mushy," John promised with a smirk. "Today I'm going for something a little different."

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Aaaand that was Jaina facepalming, not sure if she should be laughing or not. Definitely leaning towards it, though. "Well if that isn't a cue for a subject change..."

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John laughed. "You started it!"

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"I didn't mean to go there, you just... took it there!" she pointed out.

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"Hey, you've engaged with my brain before," John pointed out. "You know how these things go."

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"I think I get to claim 'five years away' when I was talking about marshmallows," Jaina said. "It's an excellent excuse at times like this."

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"Oh hell no," John scoffed, chewing through another marshmallow. "Time away is never an excuse." If it was, he'd have gotten away with so much more.

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"Well, too bad, I'm using it anyway," she said, turning her marshmallow over the fire. "What are you gonna do about it?"

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"Well, since I can't go with my old methods of making you bend to my will, I'll just have to refuse to accept your excuse. Come up with something better." He'd liked his old methods, too.

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Yeah, so had she, and now she was thinking about it. Seriously? Was she really... Sigh. Jaina hated everything.

"See, you went there again!" she accused, laughing. "And I'll have you know I can still outstubborn you, so I'll just refuse to accept your refusal to accept my excuse."

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Good thing John had no clue and so he was still being good. For him.

"What?" John was cracking up now. "Seriously, you cannot blame me for whatever it is you're thinking about. Which is clearly dirty."

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"I am not thinking about anything dirty-" Lies. "-and even if I was, you're the one bringing up... everything you brought up which I'm not repeating or I'll get blamed for something."

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"Oh, I'm already blaming you," John told her. For what, he wasn't sure. This conversation was really weird. "And your marshmallows."

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Jaina sighed. "How did you manage to make marshmallows sound so dirty?" she wondered.

They were weird. End of story.

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"It sure wasn't how I was eating them," John teased, popping the third marshmallow into his mouth and chewing slowly.