IC CONTINUATIONS STUFF

[halfcocked]

[since my other two continuation posts are like 1000 comments each let's make a new one]

Comments

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

There's sandwiches, and a little cake! And I think some carrots, you can have those. So where's this spot?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

This way.

[leading off--it's a large tree within site of the churchshack, where the roots have kind of lifted up out of the ground a little, and makes a comfortable spot to sit \o/]

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

[follows! and waits for Hakuren to sit first] You come here a lot?

. . . Sounds like I met you in a bar . . .

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

When the weather allows for it, yes. I like reading outside.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

It's starting to get warmer already! It's good Camps's down south and not in New York or something. [getting comfortable and going through the food]

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

[opening the book, but looking to see what food there is]

It is--it's a nice change from winter, I'll say.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

[there are sandwiches! some are turkey and some are veggie. and a bag of carrots, and a little rollcake, and some potato chips]

You only brought the one book?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

[will be grabbing a veggie sandwich then \o/]

My cabin's close by, if we need another.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

[mmm turkey and potato chips |D opens up the sandwich to put the chips on the inside]

What'd you get?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

[eyes that, but doesn't comment]

You said you wanted tigers, right? So--

[it is one of those big mostly-picture lots of info-soundbite type books about tigers. LIKE ZOOBOOKS, only-- a book!]

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

[looks!] But you only brought this one . . . you're gonna read it too?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

We could read it together--?

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

[ . . . embarrassed, eating without making eye contact] You could've gotten a harder one, I mean, I like the pictures, but you're--

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

[serenely] I don't know much about tigers, either.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

[actually blushing now] I-it's still . . . you know, it's . . .

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

It's ... ?

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

It's embarrassing, okay? Y-you don't think I'm stupid, right!? I'm not! I just, I don't read a lot . . . I don't need that kind of thing back home! All I really need to do back home is kill people and not die. The Earl, he doesn't treat us the same as Rhode.

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

... I don't think you're stupid. I think you're uneducated, and--as you've said, that's hardly any fault of your own.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

. . . It's not like I want to be, either. I'm glad I don't have to go to school and do all that work like Rhode. We probably did before we became Noahs, but--this life is better! There wouldn't be any point in sitting around in a classroom the way we are. It's just embarrassing because you're smarter than me.

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

I've had a lot more education than you. As I said, it's hardly your fault.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

. . . You don't mind? [still red] Just--don't laugh! Or look down on me! Or . . .

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

I've tutored worse than you, you know.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

But you weren't dating them!

. . . Really?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

Part of our trials involved answering test questions, you know.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

Like what? So the whole thing wasn't just a test? Was it multiple choice?

[relaxing considerably]