The party's first night together passed by smoothly. All the boys shared the blue, slightly larger tent while Nelphy spent the night with Willo in the yellow tent with room to spare. Bil was the only one to sleep outside by setting up a hammock.
When the sun rose everyone was either awake or woken up.
"We leave in one hour!" Zac declared through camp. "Get up, get some food, and get moving!"
The girls soon emerged from their tents, having been awake for some time but only coming out after the roll call. Half the boys were up and at em' but Jash was put on what Ayjen called "Orsen duty". It involved persuading Orsen so that he'd get up without dragging his feet too harshly. For the first morning on duty, Jash did pretty well, but Orsen was clearly motivated more by the smell of breakfast than anything Jash had said.
Soon, the tents were halfway taken down and everyone was finishing breakfast around the dying fire.
