<em>~ Maddi with Desmond and Elijah at girls camp ~</em><br/><br/>Maddi was pleased Elijah took her hand, but not that impressed with the way he took it though.  She felt you could tell a lot from the way a man did that and his light touch seemed so at odds with his body language it rang alarm bells in her head. And the whole 'dead friend' bit was positively weird.<br/><br/>The other guy, Desmond, Elijah said his name was,  seemed very laid back though, and happy to share some food as an olive branch, and as she led them back to camp she wondered how such different people came to be stranded on the island.<br/><br/>She got out two plates and some forks, and unclasping the knife on her belt one at a time speared a yam, sliced it open and then using the fork scooped the steaming soft flesh on the plate, throwing the skins onto the fire.  The pan was still quite hot and she had to juggle the lid a bit before spooning out the fish and onion, the steam flushing her cheeks slightly as she handed Elijah the two plates and he passed one to Desmond.<br/><br/>There was still some fish and a few yams left so she put the food back to store near the fire like she had done before before taking the small bottle Elijah held out to her.  She'd had some rough stuff on  her travels and was glad she'd taken an easy swig, the stuff was almost lighter fluid, so raw it it rolled like fire down her throat.<br/><br/>"Thanks, that's kind of you, I expect you are short of luxuries," she said smiling, recapping the bottle and setting it down carefully.  She walked over to the food store and undid the rope, taking the strain and start to lower it down carefully, "I think I can provide pudding too," she said, reaching into the giant pouch and bringing out first the large cake tin and then snapped off one of the four cans of Boddingtons and put that out on the ground beside her too.<br/><br/>The girls hate this stuff, I don't know if either of you like English bitter but Kira always gets it in for me as a treat, so you are welcome to share a can, I've got another here for the other two guys at some point too.   She set the can between them, her own mouth watering at the thought of a swig, but she must hang on to the other two cans, they'd do for a special treat for someone or a pick me up too.<br/><br/>She opened up the cake tin and cut off two slices of fruit cake for them and a small sliver for herself, putting it all on a plate before putting the tin back into the store and hauling it up again.  She sat by the fire, pulling bits of cake off  and popping them into her mouth, licking her fingers each time, "I suppose  it will be a long time before we get anything else like this again, Tony said you'd been here over two years. I presume you both know our yacht crashed on the reef and later sunk, but how did you guys end up here?  And have you seen any shipping at all in that time?"  She wondered if they'd set up a beacon anywhere, her eyes glancing over to the fuel can, and what procedures they had for keeping a look out and lighting it.