the flying place

[campanas]

Pen likes the flying place. It is not as good as open air (it's really not) but she's getting okay at the tight maneuvering and constant flapping required for indoor flying. And it's the only place she can go to fly. Not that Cindy would stop her if she decided to ignore his advice but his advice is probably good. Sigh.

Flap flap. Flap flap bank swoop flap. At some point Cindy's friend Moriarty will come over, even though this seems like a terrible place for whichever one of them got found to make the victor waffles.

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[manofmyword]

Cindy's friend Moriarty will come over at around fourish!

Around fourish approaches steadily. (Cindy brought lunch, which is tasty despite the fatal flaw of not being waffles.)

[causas_rerum]

At about one minute past four, someone steps into the cavernous room through a different side entrance than the one Cindy and Pen habitually use.

She walks in far enough to spot the little girl with wings flying around.

She stops.

She looks at Pen, and at Cindy, and back at Pen, and then back to Cindy.

[campanas]

"Hi!" says Pen, swooping closer and making a neat landing. "You Cindy's friend who done finding? Do he find you or you finded him?"

[causas_rerum]

"He asked nicely and I came to meet him," says Cindy's friend. "Cindy?"

[manofmyword]

"I can't have a nickname?" he asks rhetorically.

[campanas]

"Is taken regular name," explains Pen. "Are so many of them!"

[causas_rerum]

"Your regular name being...?"

[manofmyword]

"The Joker, of course."

[causas_rerum]

"How many of those are there?"

[campanas]

Pen starts counting on her fingers. "Don't remember... Cindy how many do put on list?"

[manofmyword]

"I don't remember either. About a dozen? Anyway, Pen, can you give my friend the brainphone, please?"

[causas_rerum]

"What pray tell is a brainphone?"

[campanas]

[Is thing.]

[causas_rerum]

"...I see."

[manofmyword]

"Handy, ain't it?"

[causas_rerum]

"That it most certainly is," she agrees. "Are you going to explain any of this?"

[manofmyword]

"Not much to tell. Magic little girl from another world shows up, says I'm one'a her dad, I take her home and bake her cookies."

[campanas]

"And waffles," says Pen. "And, and when door breaking person find door again then I will tell Jane where am and Mommy come find me."

[causas_rerum]

...Elle looks to Cindy for a translation.

[manofmyword]

"The door in question leads some kind of magic place between worlds, and Johnny's the one who broke it - by accident, I'm told."

[campanas]

"It was supposed going home but come here instead and here is not any of Mommy or Jane but is a one daddy," says Pen, pointing at Cindy. "So goes home with him for wait to find door or Mommies finding me."

[causas_rerum]

"Seems like a workable plan, from what I can tell. Although I don't know anything about these other worlds of yours."

[campanas]

"I mostly only go one world but sometimes visit Rose and Beast and other Dars and other Keziah and other Ariel in Rêverie," says Pen. "Other Keziah name Céleste and has griffin pet her one Mommy made her! Is why Keziahs called Griffins like Daddies called Jokers. Am only Pen so far so no name for all Pens yet. Also went can't pronounce world for space plant party! There dragons."

[causas_rerum]

"Dragons."

[manofmyword]

"One of 'em was a me," Cindy says helpfully.