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For the next couple of days, Anastasia mostly kept to herself, washing clothes, cleaning dishes and overall tidying up around camp to keep her mind busy. She was sad over the loss of her favourite four legged companion but she understood that it's the way of life. She knew he was old and his end was coming sooner or later. What made her grieving a whole lot easier was the fact that he was with her for a very long time so she knew he lived a good life.
Anastasia hums to herself as she dunks a few of Arthur's and her fathers shirts in the soapy water. Scrubbing away at the few spots of dirt and blood, most likely not their own.
She had kept so busy over the past week she hardly even realized her birthday was tomorrow. She never really was one for celebrating birthdays, it just never seemed very important to her. On the other hand her father always made some sort of a deal over it and often times embarrassed her. She loved him dearly though, and appreciated his effort to always make her happy.
"What ya doin'?" Karen's voice breaks her thoughts, the bigger blonde girl now standing beside her with a grin.
"Washing some clothes. You should be too, otherwise Grimshaw is gonna explode" Anastasia laughs, ringing out the shirts full of water.
She places them in a basket and picks it up, heading over to the clothes line near the outskirts of camp. Karen follows her with a sigh, "I hope she does, then we don't gotta hear her damn nagging all day"
"Come on, you know she means well.. in her own way" Anastasia laughs, pinning some shirts up to dry in the evening sun.
"Yeah, yeah, anyway, never mind that, we're going out" Karen stands in Anastasia's way, "you, me, Tilly, and Abigail."
"Why?" Anastasia raises an eyebrow to the other girl.
"Cause silly, it's your birthday tomorrow and us girls are taking you to the saloon for some drinks and good natured fun" Karen grabs the girls wrist making her drop the now empty basket as she pulls her away.
"So how exactly is Abigail going with baby Jack and all?" Anastasia looks confused as Karen drags her over to where Tilly sits near their tent.
"Hosea agreed to watch Jack. Now quit with the questions"
Anastasia shrugs defeated, knowing there usually is no arguing with Karen when to comes to this stuff. She isn't totally against letting loose tonight, though, figuring she did work pretty hard over the past couple days. What could one night of having fun hurt?
"Whatever" she smiles giving in, sitting down next to the dark skinned girl who rests on a large blanket.
"We know you've been real sad about Sven, and we don't want you sad on your birthday so we're gonna have some fun" Tilly smiles, doing her best to tame her black curly hair in a small broken mirror. "Who knows, while we're in there maybe we'll get some good information."
"Be dressed and ready in a couple hours." Karen smirks as she begins to head towards Abigail's tent to tell her the plans.
Anastasia waves her off as she wraps he arms around her legs, sitting on the blanket with Tilly. The two girls help each other with their hair as they giggle chat away for the rest of the evening.
"So, any men in your life Ms. Jackson?" Anastasia teases the girl.
"Nah, I don't have any interest at the moment honestly" Tilly shakes her head with a laugh.
Anastasia nods as she combs her long blonde hair out.
"What about you?" Tilly smirks over to her.
