03 Amber | Downstream of the Boat

[hairsay]

[For once this lanky young woman does not look like she's trying to win a staring contest with a cockatrice when she activates her amber slice. She does look sweaty and tired, but maybe that's actually helping. Behind her the mist is close, a towering wall, but the chuckle of the stream gives away her location before she can even open her mouth.]

Hey, any of you happen to be strong and willing to lend a hand? Me and Evan, [And indeed, the gawky redhead struggling to roll and heft rocks behind her happens to be in the frame as she talks,] are putting together a fish trap. I don't know about any of you but the thought of real meat that we don't have to bargain for with stone doubloons is so tempting we've been building this thing for the last couple of weeks straight.

It could use refining.

[She swings the slice around to reveal a very crude weir along one side of the stream composed entirely of raised pebbles and smooth rocks; it doesn't block the stream because Jo has noted the boat at dock just upstream of her location, but she's making a fair play at funnelling any minnows into it.]

Once we're done we just need some bait and some lucky catches. I never learned spear fishing but I'll bet some of you super freaks has a leg up on that. Come on down, huh?

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[tosaveyuu]

"It sounded like you were thinking of trying something like that just now, too," Mika points out. He wasn't oblivious to her defensive posture even without her overt threat a moment ago, he just knows there's nothing she could do that could truly harm him. Besides, she's the one getting the most worked up over it, not him, as far as he's concerned.

"Whatever. There's no point in talking to you."

And with that he turns to go.

[hairsay]

Jolene, worked up to a high foam, throws her rock on the ground with an unsatisfying thud, then caterwauls like a banshee as she stomps in the opposite direction. Any work she was planning on getting done today is over with, at least until she can pull her head out of her own ass. DAMNED FOOL MAGICAL KID ASSHOLES WHAT IS EVEN WITH THE TEENAGERS HERE WHY IS LIFE SUDDENLY SO DAMNED HARD?!