Winchester/Fairfield Expedition - Camping

[not_mafia]

[After a long day of traveling over the hilly, grassy grounds of Nostos after a quick trip in the TARDIS, the sun is slowly starting to inch its way down to the horizon, the light catching on the clouds and making quite a spectacular sunset view. It's time to halt the traveling and rest the animals, get those tents pitched and crack out the canned foods. You're pretty deep into the Dead Zone, now, and stretched before you are rolling plains, with the only foliage being the golden grasses and some shrubbery. The air seems quite a bit warmer than it was in Paradisa as well. It is not an empty plains, though; buffalo roam the area, generally pretty tranquil as they graze on the grasses, sometimes lifting their heads to look curiously at the residents. Well. If they had eyes, that is.]

CAMPFIRE | TENTS | THE GROUNDS | THE BUFFALO

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[eat_me_beat_me]

[Nora looks up from where she had been pulling the pieces of their tent out of a bag. She held one of the poles in one hand as she shot him a helpless look]

Would you mind?

[fanstheflame]

Hi, Nora. [he smiles and waves as he heads over] Not at all. ... Which way do you want it to face?

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Her smile turns grateful as she looks around, thinking.]

Maybe that way?

[She points in a direction that seems good enough... it's not like she actually knows anything about these things.]

[fanstheflame]

... That's East. [he can't help but smile] You point the tent that way, you're going to get the sun right in your face come morning.

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Shit. She laughs, grinning sheepishly and shrugging]

Is this the part when I should tell you that I only went camping once in my life when I was, like, 9?

[fanstheflame]

You can, but it's okay. I know not everyone's used to living like this. [he starts unpacking the canvas]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She watches him. She'd offer to help but she honestly doesn't know what to do with it]

Yeah there really isn't much camping in suburbia.

[fanstheflame]

Suburbia? Is that the name of the town you live in?

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She laughs]

No, no. The name is Paradise Hills. It's a smaller town right outside a big city called Phoenix. We're considered the suburbs of Phoenix - thus Suburbia.

[fanstheflame]

[give him a minute]

So a suburb is ... another word for a "smaller town"? Does that mean "suburbia" is a nickname for a suburb?

[eat_me_beat_me]

Well... a smaller town on the outskirts of a big city but yeah. [she laughs] And suburbia is more of an insulting way to call a suburb because people are weird in the suburbs. Like all the houses look exactly the same and shit.

[fanstheflame]

Oh. [he's finally starting to get it, as he sets up the tent] ... So you didn't like living where you did, then?