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Who: Estelle Bright & whoever else wants to bother her!
Where: The town, the lakeside.
When: Open prompts on the 18th, private prompt with Joshua on the night of the 15th.
What: Estelle's finally located some fishing poles. She's ready to see what she can fish up, but unfortunately, the lake has some rather interesting fish... Also, collecting firewood.
Warnings: creepy mutant fish with too many heads and teeth, ahoy.

Locked to Joshua - night of the 15th
[Estelle was tired, dirty and hungry, but mostly tired. Their investigations today provided more questions than answers, and with dark falling soon, she knew they'd get little else done today. Stumbling around in the dark wasn't going to get them anywhere safely or sanely.

Better to rest up, see what tomorrow brought-- not that she had to like it, of course.]

Aaaaah... what I wouldn't give for a proper bed. How about you, Joshua?

Fishing at the Lakeside - 18th
[It had taken some hunting, but eventually Estelle had managed to find a few fishing poles in an empty boathouse. Some fishing enthusiast had left them behind, no doubt, and Estelle hopes wherever the previous owner was, they weren't missing them too much. She manages to collect some bits of foodstuff from the store as well as some bugs before heading out to the lakeside, settling in and casting her line. She's still not sure about testing out this water herself, but if there were any fish, she'd find them.

Now to wait. All she needed was a touch....

While she does though, maybe someone might join her? There's a few spare poles set off to the side, after all.]

Baby it's gonna get cold outside - 18th
[While cuddling up with Joshua at night was nice and certainly warm, Estelle knew that ready to use firewood was probably going to be necessary at some point for people here. She didn't have an axe to cut at trees, but there was plenty of broken and useless furniture laying around, ready to be broken apart. So Estelle selects a few especially unrepairable looking pieces, broken frames and rotten through chairs, and gets to work on them, using a rock to knock pieces loose when her hands won't do.

Slowly but surely, a sizable pile will form. An even bigger one might form with a little help! Or maybe someone needs some firewood to keep warm at night? She'll be leaving the pile out near the store for everyone once she's done.]

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[Estelle liked to think that way as well, to be honest. She'd met a lot of new and interesting people here, and while she'd very much like to return home with Joshua still, she considered it a nice bright side to being stuck here.

When Izuku approaches, she offers him a happy smile, nodding energetically.]

Yeah, I did! I checked some of the empty house boats over and found a few dusty rods and a tacklebox tucked under a rotting bed. Must have belonged to a fisherman at some point, I'm guessing.

That's great! [He hovers beside her uncertainly.] Do you mind if I join you?

[While Estelle's incredibly friendly, Izuku also doesn't want to disturb her if she'd rather be left alone while fishing like this. Better to check before intruding!]

Of course not! There's a couple of poles, and there's some bait too.

[She points to... well, that sure is a couple of covered plastic cups nabbed from the store. There's bits of bread in one and some live bugs in the other. Where the heck did she get live bugs? Did she actually hunt them down--]

Fishing is always more fun with company.

[He reaches for one of the poles and then... stares between the line and the cups of bait with a perplexed expression on his face.]

Um... [A sheepish laugh.] How does this work again?

Ah, here, let me help.

[Estelle pulls a hook out from a pocket, tying it off at the end of the line after pulling the line through the loops of the rod.]

There! Now you just put a piece of bread or a bug on the hook. I haven't figure out what kind of bait suits this place best yet, so I'm kind of testing this and that.

[He leans in, watching how her movements intently so he can remember how to do this himself later.]

A bit of bread... [The tip of his tongue sticks out as he prepares the bait and then lowers it into the water.] And now we wait and hope something bites, right?

Mmmhm! If people haven't been here awhile, chances are the fish won't be very cautious, so it shouldn't take long for them to bite.

[She gives him a thumbs up, grinning.]

Just need to pay attention to your line-- if you get a nibble, you'll feel it. That means a fish is checking it out. When it bites, it'll be a bigger tug, and that's when you reel it in!

[He returns the smile and thumbs up.] Sounds easy enough! [With everything set up, Izuku stares intently down at the water, as if willing something to bite already. Except, when he feels a tiny ripple of movement down the line, he gasps in surprise.]

Oh! I felt it! [He wilts a second later, when he realizes he's probably scared the fish off with his knee-jerk reaction.] Ah... it's gone.

[Estelle shoots him a reassuring smile, shaking her head.]

Just give it time! Pulling too quickly is no good, they want to check out the bait first, you know? But you're already pretty on the ball about staying aware of the line, which is great.

Really? [Izuku smiles, looking just a little too pleased at the compliment.]

At least now we know there's definitely something to catch in the water. [He does his best to keep the fishing rod still as he watches the occasional ripple across the water's surface.]