<div class="floatleft">(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713373042520096840/957459763694825523/20190927_3bf4cb.png)(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691657169988485150/957457550079586394/6b6405dbaff8917f8168729d1a5cc408.png)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong><em>Layne Opa (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=341012.msg16145938#msg16145938) &amp; T-Sam</em><br/><strong>Wearing:</strong><em>This</em>(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a1/bc/0f/a1bc0faafcf5f6234ce3a69a1fc8c171.png),<em>plus desert camo military style backpack, older blue canvas high top/white sole Chuck Taylors</em><br/><strong>Time:</strong><em>6:50PM June 4th; Evening</em><br/><strong>Location:</strong><em>Campsite Clearing</em><br/><strong>Tagging | Mentioning:</strong><em>Courtney, Dani, Felix|  Lorelei, Faith, Danica, CJ, Liam, Blondie</em><br/><hr/>Felix being into soccer doesn’t surprise Layne, he has that wiry athleticism that a lot of soccer players seem to have, although Layne hasn’t played since grade school in and really doesn’t follow it, it fits Felix.  It’s also a sport that requires insane cardio, if you want to do it right anyway, and again Felix has that kind of energy and stamina and strength that go beyond what his lean frame seems to belie and Layne figures he is the sort that can go all day and then some.<br/><br/><strong>“Soccer, I wish I knew more, just not big in my household and I dropped it when I had to start narrowing down stuff to play.  My Mom says when she was in school it wasn’t so intense with all of the travel leagues and tournaments in every sport, people played a bit of everything.  Would be cool if it was still like that, not that I don’t love hoops, but variety is, you know, good.  I bet you kick ass at kicking…um, I was gonna say kicking balls, sorry, I don’t know my soccer slang or jokes too well,”</strong>Layne admitted, and if he was good at anything, it was admitting what he wasn’t good at or knew very well.<br/><br/>Felix just seemed a bit like his opposite, which he liked, not opposing opposites, more the kind you could hang with and be different together, plus he was, it sounded weird, but pretty.  Not that Layne hadn’t been called pretty before, girls seemed to like using that term to describe him, which he figured was because of his hair, but it fit Felix and that was cool too.<br/><br/><strong>“Thanks for working with me, catch you later,”</strong>Layne said to Felix as they parted for a bit.<br/><br/>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Heading into the woods with Dani was something that might have seemed a lot more appealing if there wasn’t some blonde woman screaming and crying about monsters.  He hadn’t really gotten that close to her before Faith collected her, but she looked a bit of a wreck and that was worrisome, but still not exactly explaining what happened.<br/><br/><strong>“Heyy,”</strong>Layne replied to Dani’s greeting, not having seen the lady mucus bombing Faith, Dani’s comment had his trying to check to make sure there wasn’t something hanging from his own nose, and there wasn’t. so he just moved past that.<br/><br/><strong>“I’m thinking maybe she got lost in the woods, got all turned around and,” he nodded toward the tentacle thing she was talking to, “It isn’t like this is the most regular camp ever.  I got lost when I was little and freaked out, so if she did that in the woods and all the shadows and stuff, looked pretty scratched up running, maybe it seemed like a monster grabbing at h…”</strong>he never got to go any further, probably all the better since the time he got all lost and turned around was in a large grocery store while on vacation.  He was little, maybe 4 years old, and it really freaked him out, but not the kind of thing that one always wants to share with a girl you are interested in…so an, um, good thing that freaky sounds started moving about and talking to them from the woods, sort of.<br/><br/>The thing sounds big, sounded like a snake or something similar, not that he could see it yet, and for a moment Layne wondered if it was like Sam or some of the other stuffed animals that were now alive in camp, but damn, it really sounded big.  Not being entirely knowledgeable about snakes, other than they were to be avoided generally and could be cool to look at from a distance or in a zoo setting, he knew enough that regular snakes don’t talk, except in the Harry Potter movies, and this didn’t seem like he was the only one hearing it judging by Dani’s face.<br/><br/>Then she replied to it and Layne did nothing to hide the ‘what the fuck, are you crazy’ look on his face, but said nothing of the sort.  His Dad always joked that the most attractive girls were the craziest, which his Mother heard once and joked back that she must be the craziest he knew then.  It was pretty cool having parents that actually liked and loved each other, he had enough friends from divorce and worse families to know that usually wasn’t the case.<br/><br/>He was trying to decide if maybe Dani had a sneaky smart plan that just sounded, you know, crazy, or maybe figured the thing was another stuffed animal, then he heard Felix’s voice and turned about this way and that quickly as if Felix was right there, but he wasn’t.<br/><br/>Layne hated lying, for himself, but had no trouble doing it to protect others.  Otherwise his little sister would get in wayyyy more trouble than she did as Layne was always covering for her, and just before camp had found out that she was pretty sure she liked other girls…which he was cool with, not sure both of his parents would be, but kind of felt like he did something right that she trusted telling him that first.  As far as he knew, she wasn’t really dating yet, and it wasn’t like he had any luck figuring girls out himself, so he told her they would talk more when they both got back from camp, him in this weird ass place and she off to some kind of math camp.<br/><br/>He thought about it quickly for a moment, throwing the rick really hard was a definite thought, but Dani wasn’t playing it that way and then as he tried to figure her play out, Felix seemed to be warning them somehow,<br/><br/><strong>“Whoa, hold on, are you sure that’s a good idea?”</strong>he asked, trying not to sound like he thought it was a totally whack a doodle thing she said and offered to<em>‘Ussss…’,</em>but instead tried a different tact,<br/><br/><strong>“I mean, I think our visitor is like a snake, right, you’re a snake of some sort?  Maybe you should wait here, we have a couple of animals of our own, some birds and wasn’t that one kid’s thing a mongoose, mongeese, however you say it?”</strong>he asked, hoping the snake would buy it and Dani would go along, and invoking that Riki Tiki Tavi knowledge he had from watching that as a kid and later with his little sister,<br/><br/><strong>“I mean, my bird alone is pretty close to a phoenix, and you know they don’t like birds, can be pretty nasty.  Let’s get them put away before we invite anyone in and cause trouble, don’t want trouble, right?  Birds can put an eye right out you know,”</strong>he said half confidently, not really a great liar, not terrible either, and this was for Dani and the rest, so lying for others he did better than for himself.<br/><br/>Sure, his entire plan was based on a couple of movies and cartoons about snakes and birds and mongooses, and wondered just how cool Sam would be with getting called a phoenix.  Layne stepped in between Dani and the sounds in the forest, still rock in hand and that as his remaining plan if throwing out some bullshit about mongeese and raptors didn’t do the trick, either was he wasn’t going to let this thing get any closer to Dani, the camp or the girl without a fight, unless he was sure it wasn’t an actual monster of some sort.<br/>