Lift Me Up

Arc grinned and nodded with a bit of nervous excitement that he tried to keep contained so he wouldn’t make himself look too silly when she agreed to his offer of cooking them dinner. "Okay! I’ll be right back.” He went over to the near by tree line and started gathering some sticks and wood for a fire. After a couple of trips he had enough firewood for a modest campfire. It certainly wouldn’t be anything that impressive, but it would get the job done. He did a little bit of searching around the river’s edge until he found a rock that was flat enough to cook on and after giving it a little rinse in the water brought it over to where everything was being set up.

He took the time to dig out a divot in the earth and to clear away some of the grass around it so the fire wouldn’t spread before he started stacking up the wood into the right shape. While he worked he glanced up at Vanille occasionally, the corners of his lips pulling up in a small smile when he did. He still kind of worried that he was going to mess this up somehow, like she might see though this charade of being likable and happy, but she almost made it easy to think that maybe it wasn’t a charade at all. Being around her made him feel like maybe things weren’t so bad and there was actually something worth trying for.

Once all the sticks and fuel for the fire were in place, he gave Vanille a little grin. "Alright, almost ready. We just need something to start the fire with.” He pushed the rock he had found up to the edge of what would become their camp fire and added, "We could either find a piece of metal or a smaller rock to strike against this one for some sparks or we can collect a pile of tinder and roll a stick against the rock real fast in it do get a spark going that way.” He pulled one of the fish over to him and started carefully cutting away the fillets from the bones with his claws. "Do you want to look for a fire starter while I prepare these guys?”

"Arcturus Indarra"