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[dingdongdoodily]

Pickles had spread out a blanket and had grabbed a couple bottles of booze, including the expensive-as-hell one. He'd also gathered driftwood and built a fairly impressive little fire between them and the water. It was really just to keep himself busy, since as much as he said it didn't bother him, and as much as he'd been playing it cool

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[dingdongdoodily]

"Permit." He said, shrugging as he drove into one of the deeper parts of the campground, which was fairly empty, considering that it was the end of November.

"Alright, here we are." He said, keeping the headlights on so they could set up. "See that post over by the trail? Put that paper on the little grabby-thing and I'll start settin' up the tent."

Grabby thing is the technical term for office clip-nailed-to-a-post.

[cheevy]

Miniver trots over to put the paper in the oh-so-technical technicality device, then returns to Pickles.

"Anything I can do to help? I've never camped before..." He doesn't want to get in the way, and wants to get everything set up so he can get WARM again.

[dingdongdoodily]

"Sure, there should be a cord of wood over by the fire pit, could you build a fire while I..." He paused to inspect a strange contraption that found its way into the bag full of metal poles which held up the tent.
"... Okay, whatever. While I get this tent set up." He'd already laid out the tent and staked the corners into the ground. It was a tent big enough for four people, segmented in the center on the inside by a partition that zipped up. He used the front of it for storing food and wet clothes and the back for sleeping, obviously.

And he'd set it up so many times, that it didn't take all that long at all to have the thing in place. Ten minutes, maybe.

[cheevy]

By the end of that ten minutes, Miniver has gathered wood into the fire pit, attempted and failed to start a fire usng kindling, given up in impatience, and gotten the thing blazing with his wand.

Cheating? Yes. But EFFECTIVE. And now he is starting to be warm again!!

He crouches by the flames, cocooned again in his sweater, watching Pickles finish the tent. "That looks great. Come here, doll. Oh, this was such a great idea!"

[dingdongdoodily]

Pickles smiled, "I'll be over in a sec, babe. Gotta set up the inside, too, y'know." He paused, "No wait, you don't." He snickered, going back to the hatchback of the vehicle and pulled out the sleeping bags, pillows, the duffel, and the rest of the 'provisions'.

After that, though (having zipped the two bags together to make ULTRABAG!) Pickles dropped down, not even caring about the dirt on his jeans or hands. "This really is great. It might be kinda chilly but it's away from people and that's what counts."