Orientation

[Bethany]

Jerez laughed at the angry girl's apparent misfortune. He was happy that he got to be with the only man besides himself and Silver.

"Dammit..." Silver said. "I wanted to be teamed with the Nightmare. But noo... I get to babysit." He crossed his arms, frustrated.

[Lady Hammer]

Lady sighed with dread.

"It seems everyone has to have a one up on each other, don't they?" Camp wasn't going to be as fun for everyone as she had hoped, and she could tell this much before the damned thing had even started. "Well... as long as you all learn something through this experience, I guess it doesn't really matter..."

[snowkitty]

"You don't have to worry about me," she stated blatantly. "I don't have diapers to change or anything."

[Jesse]

"Well at least there are no other women on my team." Kat sighed, sliding down the nearest wall and closing her eyes to better focus on her inner conversation. "Now shut up all of you I'm trying to win an argument."

[Lady Hammer]

Suddenly, Lady got a good idea.

"Hey, don't worry if you don't like your team mates! You can, uh... boot them off! When I decide it's time for a gathering of teams, you can boot off the 'weakest link', and each team will get a new member from the pile of discarded members!"

Good job, she told herself, smiling. She did what she could to keep her eyes off of Lanz, not wanting to blush.

[Bethany]

"An argument with who, me?" Silver asked, and eyebrow raised.
"You wanna say that... whoever... is older than me, that's fine. I don't care. I don't even remember how old I am. How could I prove you wrong?" Silver was highly disinterested in a debate about his personal features.

"Hmm..." I guess that's a good idea, Lady. Jerez stated, trying to imagine the implications of the new announcement.

[Jesse]

"Fuuuuuuun." Kat muttered, eyes still closed. "And I thought I told you all to shut it, including the alien bitch who thinks she's a goddess."

[Lady Hammer]

Lady was deeply wounded.

As far as her standards were, she wasn't a bitch. Not at all. She hadn't threatened anyone, she hadn't done anything rude, and she had given out ice cream! It was the authority. It had to be!

"Well. If that's how you're going to be... I can kick you out in the blink of an eye, Kat. You don't have to participate, you know. If you really hate it this much, I can get you out," she said, her face slightly reddening and a watery gleam in her eyes.

[Bethany]

Silver, sensing a connection, glanced at Lanz.
"Are you gonna let her talk to her like that?" He said very quietly. Silver didn't usually like stirring trouble, but sometimes... he just couldn't help himself.

[Lady Hammer]

"I feel bad," Lanz said to him, "but she wouldn't want me to get involved. I think she would rather have it to where it's her and not me..."

The fact that that even came out of his mouth made him feel like a piece of scum, and he sighed and looked up at Lady, a sorry frown twisting his lips. "What would I do?" he asked Silver. "I'm weak. I drained what I had to keep Aeslyn in one piece, and it's not exactly safe for me to 'feed' in public. I need an essence to create one if I'm going to summon -- not that Lady would need it in defense or anything...

"Aw hell... what do I do?"

[Jesse]

"Not you!" Kat snapped at Silver, cracking one eye open. "Ai, and she's ten thousand, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't look that young if you make it to that age, alien or not." She closed her eye but then opened it again to glare at Lady, "Thanks for the offer and I'd take you up on it if I wasn't under orders to stay for as long as this thing lasts. Damn military."

[Bethany]

((ooc: I would go into explaining all of Silver's thoughts, but that'd be a MAJOR plot spoiler...))

Silver realized in that instant that maybe Lanz was a whole lot more similar to him than he had realized. Now he felt bad.
"She has it under control." He said, changing his mind about wanting to see trouble, "That girl seems more crazy than dangerous... especially to a diety." After that, Silver decided he'd be quiet, even ignoring the girl's challange to his eternal youth.

[Jesse]

"She's not a diety, she's one of many self-centered aliens I've met. And I'm not crazy, I just happen to have an artificial intelligence occupying my body alongside myself. " Kat said. After a moment she reopened her eyes and stood, "All done arguing now, you can talk, not like you ever stopped."

[Lady Hammer]

"She won't do anything though," Lanz said to Silver, sitting down in the new outside setting. "She won't because 'she has other things she's trying to do, and getting angry isn't one of them'. I've heard it before." He then turned to Aeslyn. "I'm surprised you aren't defending her."

"Naw I'm fine. She's more of a threat than the baby dragon. Besides... Lady doesn't need defense. She created what we're all standing on, so I'm going to be smart and mind my damn manners."

They watched to see what the girl on her cloud would do. Rocutia, the tiger, suddenly cleared her throat.

"Lady refuses to speak any further. I will speak for her. You will all be given team cabins where you will reside during the time before your obstacles. No other team member is to step over the boundaries marked by team name, and no member is to speak with one from a different team except when there are Tribal Gatherings.

"Tribal Gatherings are where teams will expel one member and be given to another," she clarified, licking her paw once again.

[Bethany]

"Not crazy, eh?" Jerez said, finding her words ironic. His face was unsure, and he was quite nervous about being on the same team as her. And now Silver was depressed, but Jerez didn't exactly know why. 'His mind just moves too fast for me...' he concluded, assuming there was some kind of connection he'd made that Jerez couldn't think of.

"When do we get to our cabins?" Jerez asked the tiger. He was still holding his bag, and he was tired.