campanas | whole new world

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

"He sure would."

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campanas

"How you win game?"

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manofmyword

"Don't know yet. We're making it up as we go along. That's part of the fun."

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campanas

Pen giggles. "Iiiif he win you make him waffle?" she suggests.

From:

manofmyword

"I might!"

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campanas

"If you win he make you waffle," Pen continues.

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manofmyword

"I don't know if he's any good at waffles. He could probably find somebody to make me one, though."

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campanas

"Cheating," giggles Pen.

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manofmyword

"We-ell, I'd let him. Good waffles with cheating are better than bad waffles played straight."

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campanas

"Waffles important? Cheating not?"

From:

manofmyword

"If you have to eat the waffles, yeah."

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campanas

"Okay," Pen giggles. "How far place flying?"

From:

manofmyword

"Not that far. A few more minutes."

From:

campanas

"Okay. How long flying?"

From:

manofmyword

"All day, if you want."

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campanas

"Eeeee! You want me fly you too?"

From:

manofmyword

"Sure!"

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campanas

Pen claps. She looks merrily out the windows all the rest of the way there.

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manofmyword

They drive past a large building with elaborate fancy architecture covered in pigeon poop, and enter an underground parking garage with no lines painted on the floor. He parks them near some stairs and gets out. It's very dark, but he brought flashlights.

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campanas

Pen follows him. In the dark, even with flashlights, she prefers to hold hands.

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manofmyword

That is an entirely reasonable preference which he is happy to accomodate!

Up the stairs, pick a lock, down a hall, pick another lock, down a somewhat prettier hall, and into an

enormous

empty room.

It's still dark. He hunts for lightswitches.

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campanas

"Oooh," says Pen, on the basis of the provided light from the flashlights; and then: "Ooooh!" at the acoustics, and she bursts into song, a high fluttery hymn, filling the space.

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manofmyword

Cindy beams.

He finds the lights.

There's a stage, and several ranks of balconies going up and up all around the sides, and a huge empty space in the middle of it all where long metal strips on the bare concrete floor hint at an unrealized potential for seating. The white paint is peeling off the pillars that support the balconies, but the brass railings still gleam under a light coating of plaster dust.

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campanas

Once Pen can see clearly, she runs, still singing, and flings her wings open, and catches air and flies.

She's not very graceful at first - there's no wind in here, she can't catch any updrafts and isn't making her usual course corrections - but she's strong and eager to be airborne, so she beats her wings harder, and sings and sings.