#ooc: i'm so sorry to altan in advance

[faerietothe-otherside]

Thrilled wasn't exactly the word Rangi would've used when she found out who she'd been partnered with, but she also was smart enough to understand that it wasn't an accident. The witch had been on the blunt end of Rangi's fist during the sporting events, and while Rangi wasn't usually a righteous or angry person, it was all she'd been able to feel in that moment, and most of that week. And most of that month. Most of the time since she'd watched her best friend die in her own arms. "Don't," she warned her, tone low, "don't do the whole--" she gestured at his face-- "sad puppy routine. I'm not sorry I hit you. You deserved it. Billie and Nyra and, fuck, even Suresh didn't deserve what you did. It wasn't just carelessness, it was thoughtlessness." She shuffled some of the stuff around that had been placed out for them to complete their "survival" exercise with, before picking up the pack full of tinder and tossing it to him. "Now, we're gonna do our silly little bonding exercise and then we're gonna leave and hopefully never talk to each other again. Sound good?" And maybe her anger wasn't exactly being directed to the right place, but where else was she supposed to put it? She didn't know.

Rangi + Altan; @faerietothe-otherside pairing event: survival tasks

Altan knew that the dodgeball game had gone a bit beyond friendly competition on all sides, even though he hadn't been expecting the tension to simmer over as much as it had. While his eye was mostly healed, it still stung that he'd angered someone enough to warrant a punch in the first place. He approached Rangi with some trepidation, unsure if pairing the two of them to brave it through the wilderness was really the way to rebuild trust. While there wasn't much ill will on his end, he wasn't sure how Rangi felt - and subjecting her to a whole day in the company of someone she disliked enough to punch felt cruel. But he figured the best he could do to alleviate the situation of a bit of tension was to apologize for his part, even if Rangi wasn't ready to accept it. "Hey, I'm sorry you got stuck with me - and for what happened at the dodgeball game. I didn't intend to hurt anyone's feelings or make them feel out of control, I was just thinking about what I could use to our advantage, and I was careless."