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[ Chuck is being brave!! He waited until daylight to go explore about ten to twenty feet into the jungle. And he's happy to stay right about there, until--

BOOOM! ]

Guys? Guys what was that? [ Calling into his communicator as he comes out of the jungle, and looks in the direction of the sound.

Should.

Have.

Stayed.

In.

The.

Car. ]

GUYS?! Jungle on fire. Red sky! Lots of smoke and BOOM! Guys!

[ RUNNING BACK TO CAMP NOW. ]

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Chuck —

[ Lucina's initial instinct is to reassure him, that the heat had likely just lent itself to a rainless thunder storm. She's seen them before, particularly in the summer months.

His last words are what set her back, teeth nearly grinding together. If it's a joke, it's not very funny and she's prepared to get angry.

She gives him the benefit of the doubt, though, and her eyes flick to the sky... ]

[ She's seen a volcano before, in what few history books still existed in her future, her world. Close to the lip of the sleeping Voice, long dormant after a tactical attempt gone terribly long. No one had ever dared touch the village remains below.

She's not thinking of that now.

She's thinking Risen. She's thinking death; Grima. Her free hand goes immediately to the hilt of her sword, and when she speaks again, it's hard to keep the tremble out of her voice. ]

Chuck! Can you hear me?

Lucina, we're going to die! I know about Krakatoa and Pompeii and we're going to get blown out of the water or we're all going to get buried in lava and petrified and someday someone will find us and make plaster casts of where our bodies were and preserve our dying, horrified faces--

[ If Chuck were a typical nerd, he'd need his inhaler right now. Fortunately, he skipped that trait. ]

[ "We're going to die." -- How many times has she heard those words?

Whatever his intent, Chuck's rambling knocks Lucina back into herself. Her nightmares have been real for years. This is nothing. She can handle this. ]

Chuck. Stay calm and listen.

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No, no, you don't understand, fire and brimstone and-- [ Interrupted by another BOOM!! ]

[ Very high-pitched shriek. ]

There is nothing in the Intersect about surviving volcanoes!

[ Her voice cracks like a whip. ]

Chuck.

[ It's a bit like Sarah's no-nonsense voice, with a touch of Casey.

Either way, it does snap him out of his panic. ]

Yeah? Hey... sorry... [ Now he's trying to catch his breath--

And then he coughs on a bit of ash. ]

This is... really bad...

You are not going to die. [ How many times has she said that to someone, only for it not to be true? Too many to count. Lucina pushes down her ill, unwelcome feelings. ]

Go back to the beach. That will be the safest place right now.

Edited 2013-07-16 21:00 (UTC)

I'm... I'm on my way there. [ Still veeeeeery nervous. ]

Should we... go out into the water? Would that be a little better? I mean, not treading water or anything, but maybe waist-height? [ Though some of the fellow campers might be treading water at Chuck's waist height ~~like Allen~~ ]

If the eruption spreads, the sea will boil. [ Her eyes remain firmly on the sky and the ridges of the volcano against it. She's no idea how far it has spread, how dangerous the disaster could be.

It's still difficult for her to think of this as a natural occurrence. Maybe it isn't one. ]

Edited 2013-07-29 13:29 (UTC)

[as if the EXPLOSION wasn't enough to scare Effie (if you heard a scream, it was her), "jungle on fire" pushes her over the edge.]

[explosions. canons. dead tributes.]

Someone-- [gulp] Someone just died! And now-- now the fire--

[oh, no. the fire sounds just like the one that pushed Katniss towards an encounter with the careers!]

[cue tears. and sniffles.]

I don't want to die this way!

[ Turn the panic up to eleven. ]

Somebody died?! Who died?!

[upset and crying] I don't know! We won't find out 'til nightfall!

...if we make it that long!

Edited 2013-07-16 00:24 (UTC)

N, nightfall, why? Is the tsunami going to wash the body up on shore or something?

Can you see the others? If we're all together it won't hurt as much. [ Or something. Sure. ]

[surely their Gamemakers would not be so cruel as to--]

[of course they would be.]

[no words. only tears. and a little bit of cowering.]

[ D: ]

Hey-- hey... don't cry. [ Not that he has any reassurance to give her! But he doesn't like seeing people cry. ]

Where are you?

[sniffling] By-- a big rock. [that's a terrible description, so she lifts up her communicator to show him]

Okay... just stay there, that's good. [ He will try and find her! She's pretty noticeable, after all, even after a week in the wild. ]

What's your favorite song?

[gotta love those outrageous outfits, right?]

[he's got her on the song, though. the only thing that comes to mind is the national anthem, and that's not exactly the most comforting thing right about now! think, think, think..!] T-Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

[who cares if that's embarrassing? THEY ARE GOING TO DIE]

Yeah, I'm -- getting a visual of my own about now. [ super-terse Buffy is super-terse. probably because of things going on in the other post 'today'. ]

What are we going to do?! [ See this face? This is the face of a very freaked-out woobie. ]

Oh wait, I know-- we're probably going to all burn to death or get crushed by rocks or falling trees!

So, kind of a slow day, is what you're saying.

[ it's not that she isn't agitated, or nervous, but ]

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