"Wake up idiot, we're going on patrol." Vriska yelled into the front of Tavros' tent. The thin boy grumbled, sitting up and rubbing his eyes as he adjusted to current surroundings. His fluffy, brown, Mohawk flopped sillily to the side. She yawned leaning into the tent. "Are you just going to sit here or are you going to get up? What the fuck is wrong with this tent anyway? If a zombie came in here right now how would you defend yourself? Your weird little… lance thing is all the way over in this corner, you'd never be able to reach it, and you even left your guns and boots outside!"
Tavros, by now had recognized his situation. " … um, okay I got it but can I please put some pants on now?"
Vriska snorted, her face illuminating red, "Yeah, not my fault these jerks are making us wake up so early." Not like we would have gotten much more sleep anyway. Vriska exited the tent and headed over to the nearest tree. She sat down, one knee up against her chest and looked out over her camp. The fire had been put out early, after she had gone to bed (Terezi had wanted to stay up all night talking, she had just pretended to fall asleep so she would shut up). Most of the others had already headed out after a quick breakfast of old oatmeal, which some was left for her and her new partner. Aradia was keeping watch over camp with Equius today while Feferi, Eridan, Karkat and Terezi had gone off scavenging the nearest town.
She was pretty sure a few people where sleeping in now that they all could work together and had extras. Her stomach grumbled loudly. Guess I better go eat. Vriska scrambled up, brushing off the remnants of pine needles and dirt from her pants. She walked over to the fire-pit; the air was so clean and fresh up here closer to the mountains that her oatmeal smelled like pine needles. It didn't make it any worse considering Terezi had made it. Tavros stumbled out of his tent, his laces getting caught on the zipper of the opening tripping him. Vriska laughed and went back to eating her breakfast. Tavros stumbled over, due to his personality, she would have thought of him as short but he was actually a bit taller then her, making everything he did slightly more awkward and comedic. He stooped over the cooking pot outside, spooning up some of the brown mush.
"So, I hear you and Aradia played FLARP together?"
She looked over a Tavros, who nodded. She could see his face brighten, he looked so happy just thinking about it.
"I always wondered why they called it FLARP, it's not even live action?"
Tavros nodded. Vriska put her bowl down and started packing up while Tavros continued to eat. She stood ready for a few seconds. "Well?" She asked irritably.
Tavros looked up in surprise.
"Oh! Um, just a second!" Tavros jumped up, panicking and putting down his bowl. He jogged over to his tent and grabbed his weapons, stuffing on his boots.
Vriska let out an exasperated sigh. The young Hispanic boy jogged up to her, his face apologetic. She turned her head away dramatically. "Let's go."
The two made their way into the forest. The birches and pines spread out openly making open paths for them to follow. "Okay," Vriska began "We have to keep heading North for about 1 mile, then we make a right and continue for about 2, we pretty much make a squire so it can't be hard."
"Oh, uh, okay, so are we on the look-out for zombies or something?"
"Zombies, hunters, other people in our way, wild animals. That stuff."
"Oh, okay then…. So you, um, grew up in San Francisco?"
Vriska nodded. "Yeah, it was cool I guess. I can't say it was especially interesting or something though, pretty boring. I grew up as an only child with my mother, she was a real bitch but she took care of me I guess. I lived in the same apartment complex as the sweaty guy, Equius; we went to the same school and hung out sometimes. Your from Sacramento right?"
"Uh, yeah… we lived near the edge of Meadow-View. My three older sisters and me worked at our parent's restraunt when we weren't babysitting our brother, it was doing really great. Our parents were thinking they had enough money to buy a new house in a better area but they, um… never really got to it-"
Vriska frowned. "Come on we should hurry up, I think I saw something move in the shadows."
