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

[myownface]

"If someone walks into hell to drag you back out of it, you don't waste that by never really letting yourself come back," Sparkle said. His tone was a little more gentle, now. "Mouse, they brought you home. They put it all on the line to get you here. I think that means that you're allowed to come back from it now, or what's it all for?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[spin_kick_snap]

Some of it had been for Alluka, too. In fact, in those early months, she'd been assured that that had been the whole reason certain people had gone to fetch her--because Alluka wouldn't have been okay until they did.

...But things had changed since those early months. And not everything that had been said had been truly meant. Maybe it was time to go through and figure out how much she was still punishing herself trying to appease ghosts of people lashing out in hurt--ghosts that had long since been exorcised by time.

Huh. Something to think about.

"...Don't look now, Sparkle, but I think you grew up," she said with a soft smile.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[myownface]

"Nah," Sparkle replied, returning that smile and reaching out a fist to chuck her softly on the arm. "But I can fake it pretty okay when I think it matters."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[spin_kick_snap]

"Oh, so you didn't get an automatic upgrade when you turned twenty-one?" Kathy gave him her best crestfallen face. "And here, I thought that came with the whole 'legal drinking age' package."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[myownface]

"I mean, it does," Sparkle offered, "but all I was really given was a box of spare parts and one of those dinky pieces of bent metal they pretend is a screwdriver, there aren't even instructions. So installing the 'grown up' upgrade could take a while. I can't even find the instructions online."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[spin_kick_snap]

"Uggghhhhhh," Kathy groaned. "Did the box at least have a picture so you know what it's supposed to look like?"

Honestly, if only adulthood were so easy.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[myownface]

Sparkle wrinkled his nose a little.

"Nah," he replied. "I opened it up looking, and all I really found was a selfie of Atton."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[spin_kick_snap]

"Looking grumpy?" Kathy guessed.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[myownface]

"The role model I didn't know I needed," Sparkle replied with a little grin and a nod.