[MINGLE] Scout's Honor

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: Hot Springs
WHEN: 21 Sept, after sunset
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Please warn in your subject line as needed
NOTES: Details found here

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It's been a strange, rough couple of months for our intrepid villagers — Bunkers, superpowers and clones, oh my! Perhaps the Observers are sympathetic to their plight, or maybe they just have a peculiar sense of humor. At any rate, they've set up a gathering space chalk full of summer camp goodness, no strings attached. Not that anyone knows that part.

Just before sunset, a cheery message pops up on wrist devices all across the settlement and beyond. The instructions seem simple enough, although one does have to wonder at what dubious gift awaits them all after everything is said and done.

Marshmallows are on the house, so grab yourself a stick, strap on a sash and get to roasting, villagers. Skinny dipping, sing-alongs and friendship bracelets optional.

Comments

Take a dip

[fishermansweater]

The water is one of the easiest things on the list. Usually, he'd care more about completing the tasks they've been set, for a list of reasons that starts with his vague fear of not doing what he's told, continues through the wish to contribute to the community, and ends with most of the list being fun. Now, though, Finnick's only at the bonfire because Annie is, and he knows that the water will help to clear his head and bring his thoughts to the present, not to the fears of past and present that have darkened his thoughts since he saw the lists of names in the bunker.

He'd had his head underwater when Wynnona appeared, and he surfaces just as she's slipping into the spring.

"That's a common opinion," he says, and Finnick can smile because there's water all around him, smooth on his skin. He'd been floating in shallow water, so he gets his feet under him and takes a few steps back towards the edge of the water, to where he can sit in chest-deep water.

[unraisehell]

While she'd grown used to Grecian waters, being back in Purgatory for three years, combined with the terrain here being more like home than Europe, she approaches the springs like someone used to much, much colder water.

After the customary toe-dip and pleasantly surprised reaction to the temperature, she eases herself in quickly.

"I'm not above a little cheesecake if it means a hot bath," she allows. "Hope they airbrush the stretch marks."

[fishermansweater]

"Good news is if you use this water enough it'll make them go away."

It's only good news from a certain perspective, but for all Finnick's suspicions about this place and the apparent abilities and technology their Gamemakers have, he likes knowing that regular visits to the spring can bring increased vitality and the easing and smoothing away of old wounds.

Finnick leans back a little and spreads his arms, letting the water catch them so they float by his sides.

"There's plenty to look at around here, bath or no bath."

It's said with less emphasis than it would normally be; Finnick's not overplaying his awareness of his own good looks as much as he usually would, still not quite himself despite luxuriating in the water.