[ After double-checking on her smoldering charcoal, she spares the Balladeer a little apologetic almost-smile. ]
It's mostly a lot of hurry up and wait... 'Cause I'm doing it like this, I can't really smoke more than one skin at a time, but... Well, the skins themselves are mostly soaking.
[ A moment. ]
If you could clothespin the edges of that one together, though? [ She points out the only dry, treated skin, folded on a box she'd dragged out as a makeshift table. ] I gotta do that and then— do you know how to sew? It doesn't even need to be good, it's temporary. See, you take an old skirt and you sew it onto the hide like this? [ She references the current smoking hide, which has one of the skirts from the costume shop roughly sewn in. ] You do that so if something starts to smolder a bit, it's not the skin, you're not charring the skin, it's the skirt, and it helps funnel the smoke, too, it's a really smart way to make sure you're getting the best out of the experience—
[ Ah... She's rambling a bit again. When she's not talking about keeping herself alive in the woods, it seems she's still just as enthusiastic as last week, even though some of that spark and fire inside of her has really dimmed for some reason. ]
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It's mostly a lot of hurry up and wait... 'Cause I'm doing it like this, I can't really smoke more than one skin at a time, but... Well, the skins themselves are mostly soaking.
[ A moment. ]
If you could clothespin the edges of that one together, though? [ She points out the only dry, treated skin, folded on a box she'd dragged out as a makeshift table. ] I gotta do that and then— do you know how to sew? It doesn't even need to be good, it's temporary. See, you take an old skirt and you sew it onto the hide like this? [ She references the current smoking hide, which has one of the skirts from the costume shop roughly sewn in. ] You do that so if something starts to smolder a bit, it's not the skin, you're not charring the skin, it's the skirt, and it helps funnel the smoke, too, it's a really smart way to make sure you're getting the best out of the experience—
[ Ah... She's rambling a bit again. When she's not talking about keeping herself alive in the woods, it seems she's still just as enthusiastic as last week, even though some of that spark and fire inside of her has really dimmed for some reason. ]