0184:Trouble!

[livingmyths]

[Someone has woken up in a greenhouse on top of the Library work - a someone quite a bit smaller than usual and more than a little confused.]

Uh oh... I don't think I'm s'posed to be up here on a roof.

I'm too little to be all on my own!



[Age reversal curse for Rain - or Isabel, as she was then.]

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[born_nameless]

You're on a roof?

[livingmyths]

Uh huh. And I'm up high, high, HIGH!

And they's no big people here, just me.

[born_nameless]

Are you okay?

[livingmyths]

I think so. Just all alone when I'm not s'posed to be.

My mommy's not even here.

[born_nameless]

Do you know which roof you're on?

[livingmyths]

The one with a big glass house with lots of flowers. [Obviously.]

[born_nameless]

The big...well I'll be a monkey's uncle, I think I actually know what you mean. I've just never managed to make it past all those books to get up there. If you sit tight I guess I can come and...maybe release you into the custody of a children's librarian or something.

[livingmyths]

There's books downstairs? I LOVE books!

Do you think the 'brarian will read them to me?

[born_nameless]

More than you could read in a lifetime, I think. [But Sparrow sounds like it might be a nice thing to try.]

I sure hope so, kid. I'm Sparrow. What's your name?

[livingmyths]

Oh wow!

Hi, Sparrow, that's a pretty name? Are you Lakota too?

I'm Isabel!

[born_nameless]

No, I'm...does it matter?

[Because there's pretty much no way Sparrow can end that sentence.]

Look I'm at the Library already, I'll be on the roof in a minute.

[livingmyths]

No, I don't think so. I just wondered.

Okay. Be careful!

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[born_nameless]

[Sparrow makes it up to the roof level and looks around curiously. Sparrow has on a pretty typical outfit, hair in one braid, and right now manages to give off a slightly feminine appearance. 'She' doesn't look all that much different than Rain in ethnicity thought that too is a bit ambiguous.]

Hello?

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[livingmyths]

[The little girl peeks out from around the corner of the greenhouse.]

Sparrow?

action;

[born_nameless]

Hi, Isabel.

[Sparrow's somewhat at a loss what to do or say next. Never having been a child, they are somewhat baffling.]

Ready to go see the books?

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[livingmyths]

[Isabel ran at Sparrow to give a hug - like it or not Sparrow was probably going to have little girl's arms wrapped around at least a leg.]

YES! Let's go read BOOKS!!

action;

[born_nameless]

[Aaah! Physical contact! Not that Sparrow reacts much, besides holding out a hand for the tiny child.]

Okay, kid, let's get going.

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[livingmyths]

[Isabel took Sparrow's hand and smiled up happily.]

'Kay. Will you read to me?

action;

[born_nameless]

[Sparrow opens the roof door and herds the tiny child indoors.]

Yeah, sure. What kind of stories do you like?

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[livingmyths]

ALL KINDS OF BOOKS!!!

[The little girl is clearly very excited about books.]

I like books about kitties and puppies and, and, lil red riding, and coyote, and fairy tales, and mommies and lil girls, and 'citing things, and just BOOKS!

action;

[born_nameless]

I remember finding a copy of something called The Blue Fairy Book, once. A long time ago. Maybe we can find it again.

[And maybe someone to take this kid of Sparrow's hands, but as long as they're reading babysitting's can't be so bad, right?.\]

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[livingmyths]

Blue Fairies? OOOOOOH, I like that!

Blue fairies, blue fairies, YES!!!

[She's jumping up and down very excitedly.]

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[generated_anomaly]

Oh! Why are you on a roof all by yourself then if you aren't supposed to be?

Where's your mommy and daddy?

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[livingmyths]

I don't know. I just woke up and... [she gestures dramatically] Here I am! On a roof!

I don't know. Maybe... maybe Mommy went shopping? But somebody must be s'posed to be here.

[And now her little lips quiver a bit at the reminder that she doesn't know where her mother is.]

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[generated_anomaly]

Well I've never heard of anyone just waking up on a roof before, least of all little miniature people.

[She has very little experience with people who aren't created as full fledged adults. So she really has no clue what to do.] Do you see a door? If you can see a door be sure to go through it and stay away from the edge. That's my best advice. Go through a door and hopefully down some stairs! There must be stairs that lead up to a roof. It's logical, I think.

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[livingmyths]

What if I'm s'posed to stay here in the big flowerhouse and wait for people, huh? I might get into lots of trouble.

'Sides, I'm too small to reach the doorknob right.

[In other words she can touch it, but not turn it.

But I won't go near the edge. 'Least not too near.

:: video

[generated_anomaly]

Well I can't know what you're supposed to do. You did say you weren't supposed to be on the roof though, so perhaps someone told you you shouldn't before and that's how you know you shouldn't be there. So I suppose the question is, what do you know that you should be doing?

[Jenny, ever the logical person. Yep.]

Re: :: video

[livingmyths]

Um...

[That was a bit much for a little girl to follow completely.]

Um... I should be a good girl?

:: video

[generated_anomaly]

Oh you should always choose good over bad. But the people who told you you shouldn't be on the roof. Where did they tell you you should be? Perhaps being there will be better than being where you know you shouldn't be?

Re: :: video

[livingmyths]

[She's thinking hard to try and figure this out.

Mommy says, if I get lost I should STAY PUT.

Where is my mommy?

[And have a wibbly little Rain.]

Re: :: video

[generated_anomaly]

[Jenny isn't sure what the wibble means. This is probably not going as it should.]

Well I've never met your mommy so I can't know where she is. Staying put is a good idea though. Just stay where you are and I'm sure someone will find you. Also, you might ask people who have met your mother where she is. I'm sure someone can direct you to her or her to you!

Re: :: video

[livingmyths]

But, but... they's no one on the roof and I can't leave the roof and so I can't ask about my mommy and... now I'm scared.