whole new world

[campanas]

Pen wakes up at about four in the afternoon. It takes her a few seconds to remember why she's here, but then she remembers and starts looking for Cindy.

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[manofmyword]

"You can if you want," he says. "But people are probably gonna see you, and if they see you and believe themselves there's no telling what they'll do. Could be something you won't like."

[campanas]

"Like what?"

[manofmyword]

"Somebody might try to take you apart to see what you're made of, or lock you in a box for people to stare at."

[campanas]

"I don't come apart," shudders Pen, wrapping her wings around herself.

[manofmyword]

"Doesn't mean they wouldn't try."

[campanas]

"If somebody grab me and I not want I allowed hitting them!"

[manofmyword]

"There's a lot of them, though," he says, "and only one of you. Things can get scary pretty fast that way."

[campanas]

Pen droops.

"What if stuck long time?"

[manofmyword]

"It'll probably get boring in here," he says. "If you're stuck here a really long time, though, I'll see if I can't get us a trip out to somewhere with no people around where you can fly all you want."

[campanas]

"...In dark?" Pen suggests. "Way high?"

[manofmyword]

"Not much danger there, no. Except maybe from airplanes."

[campanas]

"Am safe," Pen reminds him. "Mommy safed us. We Mommy's treasures. What airplane?"

[manofmyword]

"An airplane is a great big metal thing that people fly in when they don't have wings to do it the fun way. They fly at night sometimes, and they go way high. There's an airport near here - someplace where they take off and land. If somebody in one of those saw you it'd be all the same problems as somebody on the ground."

[campanas]

"Oh. Hard avoiding?" Pen asks.

[manofmyword]

He shrugs. "Maybe you could, maybe you couldn't. I can't fly; I wouldn't know."

[campanas]

Pen sighs.

[manofmyword]

"Sorry, kiddo."

[campanas]

"I want go home. Door was supposed to home."

[manofmyword]

"Yeah," he says. "But it didn't. And I don't know how to fix it. Wanna hug?"

[campanas]

Pen flumphs featherily onto him and hugs him hard.

(Really quite hard, actually.)

[manofmyword]

He hugs her back, careful of the wings. He's a little surprised by how strong she is, even though she told him already, but she isn't squishing hard enough to break anything so he doesn't squawk.

[campanas]

Eventually she relaxes her hold some.

And then she lets him go and sighs again.

[manofmyword]

Yeah. It's a sighing kind of thing.

[campanas]

"What do if not fly?" she asks.

[manofmyword]

"Mm... we could play cards," is the first thing that comes to mind. And the second is, "While I'm thinking about it, do you want some more clothes? I don't think we'll find anything lying around that works with the wings, but I could make you some."