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Who said something about bass spawning soon?

[Kairi's voice sounds a little distant, and there's the lapping sound of water against a boat's side.]

Does anyone else know about - Oh! - About fishing in the cold? No, come back!

[She doesn't really have hands free to search the journal herself right now.]

It broke my line again.

[Kairi can be found out on the lake, piled under blankets, with a makeshift fishing pole and a bucket full of worms. She's caught a few weedy little things.

She wants to catch a big one!]

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That was me.

But that's the bass back home, I don't know about here. It depends on the species.

Well, what do they do back home?

My home doesn't have cold weather like this. I don't know anything about what the fish do when it's cold.

[Which would explain why she hasn't caught anything in a long long time.]

And I don't know anything about fishing with a string.

Fish move slow when it's cold. If you're gonna lure them in, you've gotta move slow, too.

You'd probably be more successful if you could just hunt them like normal.

Like normal?

['Normal' for her wasn't normal for everyone else... She thought.]

In the water. With your claws. If you have claws.

[He pauses for a second. Then:]

You probably don't have claws.

No.

I used to catch fish from the water with a net, but it's too cold here.

[Though, maybe not for someone with claws.]

Have you been swimming through the winter?

Yeah. The fish are too deep right now for nets.

A bit. The water's fine, it's just too cold when I get out of it. Can't get dry fast enough, makes this body sick.

Have you tried a fire?

You know, by the shore.

Oh. I never thought of that.

I've never made a fire before, though, I don't know if I could do it.

It's not hard.

If you got it going before you went swimming, it might still be hot when you got back.

I could show you.

I go swimming for a long time. A long time.

But I guess it couldn't hurt to learn.

Okay, well, I'll need to get a few things.

[And finish up fishing.]

I'll meet you by the lake in an hour?

No.

[The word comes out forcefully, and he quickly tries to backpedal.]

That is-- Maybe we should meet somewhere else, the lake isn't really good for me.

Uh, what species are you?

...

Human. Why?

[That was... A forceful reaction.]

We can meet somewhere else. The bonfire?

Just because.

[That was a crisis narrowly avoided.]

Yeah, the bonfire is fine. Just not near water.

[Practice with Scott was doing well, but not that well.]

Okay...

[Weird.]

Then I'll see you in an hour.

Okay.

[Ezra honestly isn't great with time, so it's probably more like an hour and a half before he shows up, wandering towards the bonfire, looking for whatever girl invited him there. Man, he should have asked what she looked like. Or at least what her name is.]

[Kairi hadn't stopped to worry about anything like that. Obviously (to her) she was the one digging out a little fire pit on the green and dragging tinder and wood over from the bonfire stack.

She'd also brought a bucket, but it wasn't really big enough to keep a fire going in, in her opinion, so she'd started with the little fire ditch instead.]

[Oh, there's someone. Ezra glances around quickly to see if there's anyone else, but as far as he can tell she's the only one here.

He approaches cautiously, watching her do... whatever it was she's doing.]

Are you the one who's bad at fishing?

[He could have asked her if she was the one who was going to show him how to make a fire, but that might not have been rude enough.]

[Kairi smiles, but it's uncertain; that was rude.]

I'm not bad. I grew up on an island. The fish were different.

I'm Kairi.

[Does Ezra notice that uncertainty? Maybe. But if he does, it sure as hell doesn't slow him down.]

Same thing.

[He shrugs.]

I'm Ezra. Do you really need a hole to make a fire, or is that just an optional thing?

[Because it seemed like a lot of extra work to him.]

[Kairi frowns. It isn't the same thing.]

Well, you can just use a bucket

[She points]

But the heat will escape... I think.

It lasts longer if you keep the coals warm and they stay warm in the hole. But it doesn't have to be big.

Then you make a kindling pile.

[She stacks some small sticks, bark, leaves and grass on top of one another.]

Okay. That makes sense, I guess.

[He watches as she gets the small stuff together. ('Kindling'? He vaguely wonders if it's a noun or a verb, and decides to hold off using the word until he's figured out which it is.)

He kneels down, adding a few bits of moss to the collection.]

So, a pile of little bits? Because they burn faster, right?

"Mhm," Wait! Oh, too late, "But nothing too damp. It has to be dry to catch." Moss... Well she'd never used moss. But it might work. She didn't know everything there was to know about fires.

"And then you light it." And pulling a stubby lit candle out of the bucket, she poked a twig into the flame until it caught and then set it on the pile.

"And stack sticks over it so that they heat up and catch. You have to do it slowly so the fire can heat up. It goes out if you put too much on it too fast."

"That wasn't damp." ...okay, it probably was. Ezra can't help it if his sense of 'wet' is out of whack compared to most people's.

He nods as Kairi explains, and watches as the kindling starts to go up in flame. And then:

"But what if I don't have a candle?"

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