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[ruin_mania]

[Good evening, explorers! After departing from Cair Paradisa, the path was south at first, but turned west fairly early on. Skirting well south of Eldritch Forest, the travelers had camped near the edge of the Amber Steppe, not quite within sight of the forest that marks the Totem Coast. The grasses are parched brown by the heat, though greener patches mark the presence of water. It's near one of these - a small, bubbling stream leading west that Raine has chosen to follow as it will almost certainly run into the river marked on her map - that the travelers have made their camp.

The carts and wagons are arranged in a defensive circle, though the campers are free to set up their tents outside them as well as inside wher ethe rest of them are. There are small cooking fires scattered around as well as a large bonfire in the center for socializing.

Play music? Sing? Teach those poor non-Earth kids how to make s'mores? Or just sit around and socialize with others.

Or hide in your tent and ignore everyone, if you really want to.]

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[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine might not be feeling her best outside the Powered Zone, but nothing gets between her and s'mores. NOTHING.

And as it so happens, she already has her own stick (which she's currently using to poke around in the fire). It's a bit too long and thin for ideal marshmallow roasting, but should work nonetheless.]

Me.

[ectobabble]

Hey, you got it. Heads up! [and he'll toss her a bag of marshmallows, grinning]

[wizard_redfive]

[She catches the bag with relative ease. After breaking off the burnt end of her stick (a simple task for one so thin), Dairine skewers two marshmallows and holds them over the fire.

That she does all this with little to no conversation is a pretty big hint towards her current state of mind.]

and now I can't remember if they've met... >_<

[ectobabble]

[Ray frowns, watching her, worriedly]

Hey, are you okay, kiddo?

yes they have. looong ago, like, back at Christmas?

[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine lets out a long sigh as she turns the marshmallow over.]

I'm fine. Just unaccustomed to the Dead Zone's effects.

[One of the only good things about losing her wizardry was that she could lie without worrying about unwanted repercussions. Hardly a decent payoff, but Dair'll take what she can get.]

I thought so! :D

[ectobabble]

Is this your first time out past the border, then? Or ... geez, I can't remember. Did you come with us to Libet? Everybody got split up so much that I can't remember who else came that ... wasn't stuck with me.

[wizard_redfive]

Yup, first time. I arrived only a few days before the Libet trip, so I missed that one. But you might have spotted me on the return journey. [When she brought first aid to the border, not long after the Outpost burned. Great start to her Paradisian life.]

[ectobabble]

... Oh! Yeah, I think ... maybe? You helped bring everyone back, right? I ... only kinda remember the trip back, I hurt my arm real bad, so I was in kind of a painkiller haze.

[wizard_redfive]

Uh huh. I also brought medicial aid. Clark thought you'd need the extra help, what with the Outpost burnt down and everything.

[ectobabble]

Well, we're definitely glad to have you along, then. [he grins, but it fades slowly] I hope we don't run into anything like that again, though. I'm ... not really the greatest in a fight, unless it's against a demonic entity or something like that.

[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine laughs a very bitter laugh.] Don't expect too much from me in the medical department. I know first aid at best, and even with wizardry I'm not that experienced.

I can handle a fight. [When it's against humans, preferably her age. Otherwise she'd rather use magic to get through her battles, which as Dairine is well aware, isn't an option out here. It's seriously nerve-wracking. But she really isn't ready to talk about the no wizardry topic just yet, so she quickly diverts the subject.]

So what did you run into in Libet?