[SB] lean over the edge w/ a camera

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

So perhaps it had been a bad idea to lean over the edge with her camera. Zoe had just seen some dolphins moving in the distance and of course she had to get a photo of them. She'd wanted to get fairly close as well, which meant leaning forward. Okay, she did have the zoom which probably would have worked, but Zoe had sort of gotten wrapped up in everything. Before she really realized what she was doing, it happened. She'd even unwound the strap from around her head to get just a little closer

And then someone had bumped her.

The camera fell: Zoe yelped, making a dive for it, nearly heading over the railing herself. She felt someone pulling her back, but she could only manage a panicked: "my camera!" and lunge forward again. The camera itself had caught on what appeared to be a buoy, the strap wrapping about some of the outcroppings. All the while the panicked girl was squirming and fighting the arms wrapped about her.

[Arianna Robins]

When Arianna had boarded the boat, she hadn't expected the trip to be quite this eventful. First the snakes, and now this.

She'd been doing a quick tour around the railings (which she really should have learned not to do by now) and had seen the whole thing. She didn't know the student who'd bumped into Zoe, but she did know Zoe herself, if only in passing. She was friends with Cole, she knew that much. And then it quickly became irrelevant how much she knew, because the girl was all but diving over the edge.

"Jesus," Arianna said to herself before breaking into a dash and grabbing at Zoe's shirt. Not a good enough grip; Zoe pulled herself away and over the edge again she went. "Are you--" Arianna couldn't even finish her sentence. No time for propriety. She literally wrapped her arms around the struggling student and with as much strength as she could muster, pulled her back. "For Chrissakes Zoe! What's more important here? Fall over that edge and it wouldn't matter whether you still had a camera or not!"

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OOC Notes:

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

Such was Zoe's fervor to get her camera that she hadn't even realized that someone had attempted to grab her. She was already over the edge and lunging, ready to grab. She heard the comments and felt arms wrapping about. Again, the panic so drove Zoe that she flailed a bit more, even as she was dragged back away.

"I can swim!" Zoe protested, still feeling the panic swelling up inside her, eating away at her like a creature desperate to escape. "I learnt quite a while ago! I can't lose that camera!" Because it just happened to be the older one, the one that she'd carried with her, making it one of the few possessions she still had that reminded her of her old life.

Zoe squirmed again, even moving her hand to touch the hands that held. That seemed to snap Zoe out of it though: she almost immediately released as soon as she touched, holding her hand out, seemingly shocked. She twisted to look at Ariana, her expression partially apologetic but still desperate. "Please, I really need that camera."

[Arianna Robins]

Arianna had noticed that her skin started to tingle as she'd been trying to pull Zoe away from the edge, but she hadn't really thought much of it until the girl forcefully pulled herself away, this time clearly not planning to jump overboard. She looked desperate, though, for the camera, and Arianna could understand why. If she'd dropped her journal she might have been doing the same thing.

She stepped up to the rail and looked over. The camera, by some miracle, was in a safe enough place, but she had no idea how to get to it and they were leaving it behind very quickly. She looked to her left and right down the deck, quickly, alert for anyone who might be able to help. Seeing nobody, she glanced back at Zoe, looking a little grim. "Look, don't panic. I'm sure we can find help somewhere. Either we can get something to haul your camera back up here, or maybe we can get one of the telekinetic kids to lend a hand." She moved to put a hand on her shoulder, thought better of it, and instead just let the hand linger nearby in a sort of, she hoped, reassuring way. "Don't worry, if there's any way we can get it back, we will, but I'm not going to let you jump overboard and risk dying over it. There are more important things. I promise."

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OOC Notes:

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

Don't panic? Zoe looked at the teacher as if she were insane, seeing as Zoe certainly couldn't see any other available alternative but to panic. her most prized possession was dangling over the edge, admittedly nestled safely, but still. Zoe did have her backup camera in her room: the digital one that she'd gathered through donations from that earlier drive, but it certainly wasn't the same.

"I don't think I'd drown," she mumbled, looking over the edge. True, there was a high distance between where they stood and the water below, and the waves coming from the ship meant they were going a bit faster than expected, but Zoe didn't think that she'd actually die. She certainly wouldn't be happy, but she'd be a good deal less so if she lost her camera.

Still, the teacher had offered solutions. Zoe looked around. "I, um, I don't see anything that we could use," she said, chewing at the inside of her cheek. "I don't suppose your power would be helpful?" she tried not to sound too cheery. After all, if the teacher had been able to help that directly, then surely she would have opened by mentioning it.