Main Campfire, Sunday evening

[iwishiwasbig]

For the life of him, Dave couldn't find where his tent was supposed to be. He spent a while looking and for the life of him, he just couldn't find it. Eventually Dave had to give up and made his way to the main campfire, figuring that maybe somebody could point him in the direction of Nonexis Te

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[ultron_junior]

Victor had no idea what he was doing in a tent in the woods.

Well, in an absolute sense he did. His laptop battery was dying, so he was forcing himself to leave the electronics behind and enjoy ... nature.

Never mind that nature, other than the odd afternoon at the beach, was absolutely not his thing.

"Think they're really going to make us stay out here for weeks?" he asked, plopping down by the campfire. "I'm not feeling it."

[iwishiwasbig]

"Well, they did last year. Except we were in cabins then," Dave said, giving a shrug. "But it could be worse. Could be the whole summer."

[ultron_junior]

"If they made it the whole summer, I'd be back in L.A. in about five minutes," Victor said, halfway meaning it. "But I could do a cabin. How come we don't have cabins anymore?"

[iwishiwasbig]

"There was some... weirdness at the campsite last year," Dave said. "Just as a head's up, if you see any strange glowing space rocks, don't touch them, okay?"

[ultron_junior]

Victor glanced over to check if the other guy was joking. No such luck.

"Yeah, touching the weird glowing things wouldn't have been my first impulse," he said. "But thanks for the warning."

[iwishiwasbig]

"Not a problem. Honestly, you'd be surprised how many people want to poke something that's clearly dangerous," Dave said. "Hopefully they learned their lessons."

It was a fleeting hope, he realized.

[ultron_junior]

"I can get in enough trouble without going out and looking for more," Victor said. Though he knew that back home, somebody would have found a reason to poke at the rocks. "What did they do? Make you radioactive or something?"

[iwishiwasbig]

"It turned people into monsters," Dave said. "And made me hide under my bed for a couple days because no way was I going near any of that craziness."

[ultron_junior]

"Not a bad choice." Not Victor's choice, but he wasn't going to blame somebody else for staying away from meteor freak monsters. "They got better? Or did somebody need to take them down?"

[iwishiwasbig]

"I'm a little sketchy on the details, you know, since I was under my bed, but I remember something about firing the rock into space and that fixed everything somehow," Dave said.

[ultron_junior]

"Sure, that'll do it."

Victor wasn't being sarcastic; the whole thing was reasonably plausible by his standards, and he'd already made a mental note to watch for glowing rocks. Besides, he was distracted swatting at his bicep.

"I wish they'd sent the mosquitoes into space with the crazy rocks."

[iwishiwasbig]

"Were there any mosquito nets with the tent stuff?" Dave asked, wondering how cruel the school administration was for a moment.

[ultron_junior]

"Um." Victor was about to say he didn't remember, but he realized that wasn't quite true. "There's a screen thing on the tent door, I guess that's what it's for. They work?"

[iwishiwasbig]

"Hopefully," Dave said. "I guess we'll know by tomorrow morning."

[ultron_junior]

"If the net doesn't work, my money's on this being a giant plot to sell Benadryl cream," Victor speculated. (And now he was wondering why he wasn't immune to mosquitoes. It was one of the rare occasions when he wished he was a little less human.)

[iwishiwasbig]

"If someone at the school has stock in Benadryl, I might have to give a little credit for being clever. And then yell a lot because it helps with the itching," Dave mused.