Bonding [everyone with a camp Charrie]

[Brooke]

AFTER the slave escape...

Brookesong sat with the Dibbuns as usual and was starting to get very annoyed with their constant and repetitive games. She and Vi exchanged a look over the young ones' heads. While pretending to play along, something she had become so good at she could think about other things, so she thought about something that could bring the residents of Camp closer together. Hmm, she thought. Maybe if I think like a Dibbun... I've got it, an all camp scavenger hunt. The teams will be two adults and a dibbun. Besides, they needed to take a break from all the constant worrying. When will I bring this up though. It should be soon. No sooner had she stopped thinking about it, then the footsteps of an adult echoed around the corner to the chamber where they were at the moment. Vi slowly put her hand on her dagger hilt, you never knew who it could be, there could be a massacre and you wouldn't know about it here.

"Who's there?" called Brooke.

[Tirael]

"Who's there?"

"Just me," Tirael called as he came into the room. Not exactly an adult, but close enough. Noticing Violet's paw near her knife, he said, "Whoa now, don't need that." Behind him was a very unhappy-looking mousebabe, Furla, who was crossing her little arms and scowling. Gently pushing her along, he said, "Furla here tried to escape, I think. Would've gotten away with it, too, if I hadn't come out of the infirmary when I did." Of course, he had only come out because she'd been giggling up a storm and stampeding through the hallways, but why tell her how to escape the next time?

Ushering the Dibbun to Brookesong, he knelt and received greetings from various other young ones, though he made sure to curl his rudder away from those who had learned what a fun ride it was. As he did so, he asked his friends, "So, other than prison breaks, anything else interesting going on?" He was bored out of his mind; other than getting his arm out of a sling, he hadn't done anything for awhile.

[Brooke]

Brooke set the unhappy babe down on her lap, and began gently scolding the young one. "Hey Tirael, I have an idea." She patted an open spot next to her. "Come hear it!" She settled the mouse on her lap as she waited for Tirael to untangle himself from all the dibbuns.

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Vi heaved a sigh of relief when she realized it was only Tirael coming around the bend. She stifled some laughter when he saw the grumpy mouse babe he was prodding in front of him. When Brooke mentioned some new great idea of hers, she didn't know what to expect, but instead grabbed a little mole who had just pricked his paws on a hedgehog maid's prickles and settled him on her lap, then began calming some of the others around her so that she could hear Brooke's "big idea"

[Tirael]

"Hey Tirael, I have an idea."

Looking up from the mass of Dibbuns surrounding him, the infirmary keeper raised an eyebrow. "What about?" he asked curiously.

"Come hear it!"

"Umm, okay..." Getting the few meters over to Brookesong turned out to be harder than expected, however, as a trio of Dibbuns managed to scramble onto his back, forcing him to move on all fours. Reaching his friend, he shooed his burdens off and rose slowly, making sure that they weren't hurt as he did so. "So what's this exciting idea of yours?" With any luck, it would be something fun; the lack of anything interesting to do in the infirmary was putting him to sleep, and both Tam and Fern actually had something to do.

[Brooke]

Brooke giggled as Tir struggled over while Violet just rolled her eyes. Once he was seated next to the two, she turned to him excitedly. "Ok, I know tensions have been running high, so I thought of a way that we could relieve the stress... Are you ready for this?" she asked. Then thinking back over her idea. She sighed internally. I really need to take a break from dibbun minding. I've even started to think like them! She peered at him to see his reaction.