"I only gave him the reccomended amount of actual radaway, I swear!" Kaye yelled as she released her hold on Basil, but still remained rooted to his side. When Jace shot her a sidelong glare, she shied behind Basil again as if Jace's leer was deadly. "Alright, so I may have used a teeny bit more force than I should have, but he was being rather complicated, you see? I mean, you have seen how the guy is! He wouldn't take his medication, so I made him so he wouldn't almost die again." She spared a look at him and crossed her arms. "You're welcome."
Jace decided to ignore her and slowly turned to look at Leith, a little surprised he had retrieved the wood so quickly; even more surprised that he hadn't tried to fight him for roughing up the person in his charge. Although it was a good thing for the temporary comraderie that was barely holding intact, he had hoped for a little scuffle to say the least. He was aching for a fight with the ghoul and could feel the storm brewing in the air, but it wasn't ready to be released just yet. It was only a matter of time, though...
That was probably a good thing it was put on hold, because he probably would have made a fool of himself if attempting to brawl in his current state. Given any other time, he wouldn't have hesitated to start a fight even though he knew there was the big possibility of losing; he just hated the ghoul so much that failure wasn't an option to Jace. Hell, he didn't even really understand himself why the ghoul irked him so and that fact alone annoyed him to no end.
He stared at the ghoul for a minute, watching as he sat the wood down. For the moment, the ghoul had earned a sliver of a point in his book considering he didn't berate him for jumping the girl as he did.
"I will build the fire," Jace said as he stood up, walking to the wood pile. He was tired, starved, and weak, but he wasn't going to sit around and be completely helpless in the eyes of these people. After taking out his fire bow, which was only a piece of wood with a rope tied to both ends, he set to work building the fire. In just a few minutes, Jace had a fire burning beautifully and begun to feed larger pieces of wood to it.
"Why...why did you build the fire so close to the tree?" Kaye asked, legitimately curious. At least she was quick to forgive...or forget.
He craned his neck to look at her for a moment before stoking the logs onto the fire. "The smoke hugs the tree and gets lost in the branches so the smoke dissipates before passing the canopy. Its better this way because the raiders are more likely to overlook it."
To say the least, she was impressed. "That is actually pretty good. I would have never thought of that." She then turned to look at Leith. "You should learn to build a fire like this guy. And he can do it faster than you, too."
Jace scoffed slightly and shook his head, prodding the fire absentmindedly. "Flattery does not work on me, so you can give up." He then sighed and stood up. "I will try to get along better with you people for the sake of our situation, but I want you to stay away from me. Both of you." He then turned and walked back over to the log he had left his weapon sitting against.
"God, so moody. Even more so than Leith over there, and I didn't even think that was possible." Kaye then leaned over to Basil and whispered something in his ear, "and just to let you know...no straight guy would have shrugged off seeing a half-naked lady like your friend did. He may not be in love with you...to hell with that, he totally has it bad for you. Besides, no one could resist staring at these." Since she was standing behind Basil, she touched her open chest against his back to get her point across and smirked to herself before making her way towards the fire, practically dragging Basil by the arm. "Come on, Basil. I will help you cook dinner. I insist."
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