Summer Camp Wednesday [The Park]

[sith_happened]

Today's beautiful weather was made for sitting outside and doing craft projects, which was good, because that's what you were doing. A number of tables were set up around the park, each filled with macrame and micro macrame--which was a thing Anakin had learned this week-- supplies: cording of various colors, beads, crystals, and other bits of shiny things (though the supplies were getting depleted as the squirrels kept stealing them), and a few macrame patterns mostly for dresses and other clothing-like items.

Even more worryingly, there was a runway set out down the middle of the area, along with two chairs set aside for judges.

"Right!" Anakin said, yelling into his bullhorn again. "Today you will be working in teams under a one-hour time limit to create a piece of macrame fashionwear. It does not have to be very large--it's not going to be for any of you to wear. The dimensions are provided at your stations, and the models will be arriving shortly."

Anyone have a bad feeling about that? Good.

"This week's winners will win the highly coveted Billy the Bass singing fish--" he glanced around. "Where'd that kriffing thing get off to?" He raised his hand and the fish, propelled by its own power and shrieking Sabatoge flew in from...somewhere.

"...that was odd." He glared at the assembled crowd. "Please refrain from stealing the fish until after the winner is determined this week. Listen carefully for your name and then join your team. You will have an hour to learn how to macrame and then your models will arrive and parade down the catwalk. The winners will be determined by our fashion experts Sparkle and Brooke. Your teams are as follows:

Paris, Seivarden, and Astrid
Peter, Sabine, and Tip
Jason, Ahsoka, and Norman
Verity, Aphra, and Rosa
Bobby, Mitsutada, and Hardison
Liam, Miguel, and Uma
Hannibal, Cristina, and Rufus
Steve, Yang, and Sidon
Amaya, Kitty, and Beaker
Hera, Kanan, and Breq
Jono, Kathy, and Rey
Eliot and Ino

You may begin...now."

And a giant glowing timer that Anakin had gotten from...somewhere... began ticking down the hour.

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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[furnaceface]

//... Fair enough,// Jono allowed, though there was an obvious note of amusement in his voice. //Well, hello anyway, Karina-for-now. It's been a while.//

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[notacokeperson]

"Hey, yourself," she said, smiling. "Jono. You're still stuck here?"

Wow.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[furnaceface]

//Stuck-by-choice,// Jono offered, shrugging. //I head back to New York to teach now and again, but I've mostly settled in. It's... usually not terrible.//

He was a fixture here, Karina. Going nowhere any time soon.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[notacokeperson]

That was sad. Karina was glad it wasn't her.

"I can't remember if I told you that you were weird before," she mused. "But I think you kind of are."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[furnaceface]

Jono kind of loved hearing that from someone who wasn't just talking about the fire, honestly.

//Oh, there's no doubt about that,// he replied easily. //I'm one of the strangest people I know.//

Around here, that was saying something. Back home it was saying even more.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[notacokeperson]

Yeah, but the fire was an old and familiar weird.

"You say that like you're proud of yourself," she said, rather doubtfully.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[furnaceface]

//I prefer it to most of my other claims to fame,// Jono replied easily. //Weird because I choose to live somewhere is at least a weird I can control.//

He liked having control of his life. That was new and exciting.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[notacokeperson]

"You know, put that way, I can get it," Karina said, smiling. "Still going to judge you for living here, but I can get it."

Karina was a total control freak over her ambitions.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[furnaceface]

//Hell,// Jono said, only half-joking, //I still judge myself for living here. But at least around here, people only try to smother me with their jacket once every few months or so.//

... He was maybe casting a sideways look toward Cristina.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[notacokeperson]

"No," Karina said. "Someone actually did?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[furnaceface]

//Just a few days ago,// Jono confirmed with a shrug. //She'd hardly be the first to try. After a while you just sort of accept that people's first reaction when they see fire all over a person is to get the fire to stop being all over the person.//