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[i_love_squats]

Who: Zack Fair, Kunsel, Irene
When: Friday through Sunday
Where: Ruins
Format: Action
What: The three going on a camping trip! Randomness ensues.
Warnings: Naaaaah.

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[Friday Thread - Upon arrival]

[i_love_squats]

[Friday Thread - Upon arrival]

[halcyonthird]

[The hum escapes her lips only because she lets it, but it is a sound of surprise. It's not the unpleasant kind of surprise she's come to expect, which is possibly what makes it all the more surprising. She's not particularly stealthy as she approaches, eyeing the modest tent, the stakes, the food - noting the care with which it had all been assembled and finding a smile on her lips.

Her eyes linger on the fire, follow the spark and flight of embers but stop before they leave Zack entirely.]

Mm.

[I KNOW, SO WORDY ATM. BUT HEY, SHE APPROVES OKAY?]

[Friday Thread - Upon arrival]

[knows_it_all]

[ The Second Class SOLDIER wasn't far behind Irene, arriving just after she had, following the directions Zack had given him over the Forge. ]

[ He hadn't constructed any fantasy about what sort of surprise laid in wait, so when he rested his eyes upon the campsite and the fruits of Zack's labour, he smiled. It was a true smile, one that dimpled his cheeks and reached upward toward his eyes beneath his helmet, but it was also tired. ]

[ He wasn't sure if the timing was...right. After all, he'd been through a lot recently. They all had, in fact, and it seemed like taking a break now was a little like giving up halfway up the mountain. You were neither up or down, just stuck someplace uncomfortable and in the middle. ]

[ What could he do, though? ]

[ His friend looked expectant, and Irene hadn't said much. Zack, being who he was, needed encouragement... ]

[ ...so he fisted his hips and forced his grin to grow a little wider, bared a little teeth, and let a sigh escape his parted lips. ]

"Outdid yourself, man. This is too

[Friday Thread - Upon arrival]

[i_love_squats]

[Okay, so he should’ve expected the no response from Irene; really, it took at lot to get a girl like her fired up and excited. Maybe they didn’t have camping where she was from. Maybe they didn’t make smores and talk about ghost stories while the firelight illuminated their faces.

[What a sad, sad world.

[But, hey, at least he could always count on Kunsel! Always ready, always there! Zack turned his puppy eyes to him waiting, waiting-

[And, hey! The tent? The tent was… okay, it was a little hasty. And lopsided. And-Oh, Shiva, Kunsel. You’re getting clean up duty for that. ]

You think you can do better with it? I’d like to see you try!

[And with that, the gauntlet has been thrown!]

[Saturday Thread - Evening/Night]

[i_love_squats]

[Sunday Thread - Day]

[i_love_squats]

/because this will happen after Teresa's announcement ;;;;;

[halcyonthird]

[ If there are any of you willing and able to help, be there.

On some level, she'd expected something like this. Well, this, and not this. Not Riful.

She stands, not long enough to even really look behind, before she's off, moving as she replies to the call. It's only when those who've answered have assembled, planned and are about to take action that she flips the switch back to that filter between the three of them. Or it could be public. Not sure, doesn't have the time.]

Don't follow. Everything will be fine.

[After Teresa's Announcement]

[knows_it_all]

[ Irene is off before Kunsel can say a word, his mouth hanging open in shock, eyes fixed on where she had been sitting a moment before...where only risen dust remains, and scuffed footprints. ]

[ Then his Forge beeps with a new message; trained to the sound, he's on it like a moth to a flame, fingers flying over his keypad. Not even half a second later he has up Irene's private feed, and her voice spills from the ear piece of the Forge for both Zack and himself to hear. ]

[ Don't follow. Everything will be fine. ]

[ Yeah, easy for her to say when she was the one taking off like a bat out of hell, and they got to sit there and wonder, WHAT IN SHIVA'S NAME JUST HAPPENED? ]

[ Kunsel looked over at Zack and frowned. ]

"Should we...should we follow? I mean, I'm not exactly comfortable sitting here and doing nothing when she could be off getting herself into who-knows-what kind of trouble."

[After Teresa's Announcement]

[i_love_squats]

[“Everything will be fine.” Isn’t that what they all say? Hell, isn’t that what he’d say if he was on that end of things, rushing off to go and protect his friends, to fight battles he shouldn’t possibly be able to win?

[Of course it is, without a shadow of a doubt. Which is why he knew exactly what a loaded statement that was in the first place.

[“Everything will be fine.” Shiva, he needed to trust her, but-but it wasn’t a matter of trust. It was a matter of worry and concern and fear for someone in his heart. It was a matter of being close to someone, to caring, to sharing their burden. It was a matter of being a rock.

[Zack looked back at Kunsel, down at his friend’s Forge, before reaching for it; his was back in the “tent”, and he wasn’t about to go after it.]

Lemme see it.