The woods just around the edge of camp, Tuesday night

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia had realized shortly after her evening workshop that she still had two pictures to take for her photography workshop tomorrow. So she was out in the woods (not too far out, since she's not a complete idiot) with her flashlight, looking for inspiration for something that would work and be slightly creative for "earth" and "leaves".

Yes, she could take a picture of the leaves on the ground. But what fun was that?

[ooc: open to anyone who might be wondering at the randomly meandering flashlight in the edge of the woods around the camp]

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[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler was sitting outside, not doing anything in particular, when he spotted the wandering flashlight.

"Boo."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was a leeetle bit on edge, and jumped. "Oh, um, hi."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler chuckled. "Sorry. I was just out here to think. Couldn't resist."

[nadiathesaint]

"That's okay." Nadia shrugged. "What are you thinking about? If you don't mind my asking."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Nothing too special," Tyler claimed. "Places people are from. Stuff I didn't know about before Fandom, like aliens and mutants."

He wrinkled his nose. "What the Meerkats are plotting."

[nadiathesaint]

"That's right," Nadia chuckled. "You're a stinkbug."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler heaved a heavy sigh. "I am not going to spend 20 minutes of my life arguing with you about the pronunciation of that."

"Squirrel."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia grinned. "How was getting your underwear back from Principal Washburn's office?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Fine," Tyler said defensively.

Then he blurted. "She told me they weren't her style."

[nadiathesaint]

"I wouldn't imagine they were." Nadia giggled a bit more. "Still, it was a pretty good prank."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Not as good as the exploding cheesecake or the ducks," Tyler said. "Or even the dyed hair. Underwear raid, yawn."

He eyed Nadia. "You seem to know a lot about it."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shrugged. "I talked to Jamie this morning." Which wasn't a lie. "He said the Meerkat pranks were all because some of his cabinmates liked some of the Meerkats."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Kind of?" Tyler said, thinking about it. "Aeryn and John are together, and Greg has a date with Isabel. But it's not just about that."

He looked curious. "I had no idea Jamie was interested in anyone. Not that I pay that much attention, though."

[nadiathesaint]

"Well, he did grill me for ways for a guy to get a girl's attention that didn't involve ducks or exploding deserts." She raised an eyebrow. "And John must be very brave to prank Aeryn. She's a little bit scary."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Or John knows she loves him," Tyler said.

He shrugged off the question of Jamie's love life as being of limited interest, but a girl focus group was worth talking to. "So what did you tell him?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Oh, you know, to talk to the girl, be a gentleman, that sort of thing. Or, you know, be enigmatic." She shrugged. "It really does depend on the girl, you know. But talking to them is never a bad idea."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"I can talk," Tyler said, filing it away. "My last relationship was very strange. Thanks."

"So what brings you out here?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I need two more photos for my workshop tomorrow. Earth and leaves. I'm trying to find something interesting to take a picture of."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"DO you have a good flash?" Tyler asked reasonably. "Becuase right now, you're mostly going to get a picture of nothing without one."

[nadiathesaint]

"Um." Nadia looked at her camera. "I have the one on the camera, and I have my flashlight."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Maybe that's enough," Tyler said.

He looked thoughtful. "I'm trying to figure out if there's a way you could use the night in your pictures."

[nadiathesaint]

"Dios I hope so. Unless you can figure out how to make a nice, bright flash out of tree bark and battery acid or something."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"I could probably make a fire with that stuff," Tyler said. "But it wouldn't be all that portable. Or safe."

[nadiathesaint]

"Hm." Nadia looked at her flashlight, then around at the ground. "I don't suppose you'd be willing to roll around in some mud and leaves and be the silohuette of a swamp thing for me?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Depends," Tyler said. "What would you give me?"

[nadiathesaint]

"A hearty handshake?" Nadia shrugged. "What would you ask? We might be able to work out a deal."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler thought about it. He wasn't sure Nadia had anything he needed right then, but in the future...

"Nothing now," he said. "You just owe me one. Know that."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia already owed Bel a glittering of his choice, and he hadn't collected yet. She shrugged. "Okay, I owe you one. Thanks."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"No problem," Tyler said. "So, what, I just roll around on the ground until I'm all muddy and leafy?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Yeah. And then maybe we can get you back lit with the lights from camp? Then I'll get earth and leaves all in one?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler tossed off a salute. "You're the boss," he said.

He tossed himself to a still-damp patch of ground and rolled about, plastering on more mud and leaves by the handful until his face and clothes were almost caked with the stuff.

"Ready?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Perfect." Nadia had been looking for a spot with a good strong light. One of the lights on the corner of a nearby cabin looked like it would work. "Okay, stand over here, and look . . . sort of menacing but melancholy at the same time?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler chuckled. And said, "That could be my middle name."

Through the mud, it mostly just sounded like wet vowels, but the pose he struck was effective.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia clicked as many shots as she could from as many angles as she could. Tyler really was much too good at that pose. "Fantastic!" she said when she had gotten about as many shots as she was going to get. "Let's just hope they come out. Thanks so much."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Not a problem," Tyler said, though Nadia probably couldn't understand that, either.

He waved to Nadia and ran off to take a shower. A long, hot shower.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia packed her camera away in her backpack and headed back to her cabin.