does not anymore work

[campanas]

Here, in a place where she is quite an unexpected sight, is:

an eight year old girl with brown-flecked white wings, looking dismayed and lost.

with Prime (Aestrix)

with Edie and Emily (Maggie)

with Gloria (Maggie)

with Gren (Rockeye)

Comments

[campanas]

"Could try books but maybe not like if not for people who eight."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Better stop off at the Wal-Mart then. If you pick me up and get into the air can you take directions?"

[campanas]

"Yeah."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Wal-Mart!
Gloria leaves Pen outside with a promise to stay there and wait for her, and spins a story about having to unexpectedly look after an eight-year old for someone without actually technically lying. She gets directed to childrens' books, and then, on a whim, buys her a suction cup bow and arrow set too, because that shit's just awesome.

[campanas]

Pen waits outside, for a value of "waits" that means "flies around, landing on cars in the parking lot, in an aerial game of The Floor Is Lava".

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I got the things! We can go back to the club now," she says, brandishing the bag with her purchases.

[campanas]

"Okay." Pen scoops her up off the parking lot lava and flies her back to the club.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Gloria deposits Pen in her office with the books and the toy and permission to shoot suction cup arrows at the one wall but not the others, please.

[campanas]

"Okay. Thank you!"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"You're welcome!"
Unless something unanticipated occurs, Gloria will pick Pen up after the club has been closed up and she is ready to go home. It's almost dawn.

[campanas]

Pen is napping in the office under a blanket of her own wings. There are suction cup arrows stuck to the wall, and one of the books is not in the pile with the others anymore.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Gloria will pick the suction cups off the wall, and gather the books together, and put the books and the toy in a bag and pick up Pen to take her home, trying not to wake her.

[campanas]

Pen yawns and shifts in Gloria's arms but doesn't wake up.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Gloria will carefully carry her home, then.
At some point during the night, she had called her wife and explained the situation; Klaudia was mildly annoyed with her for volunteering their apartment without consulting her but agreed that it was the best idea. The sofa bed should be pulled out by the time they get back to the apartment. Gloria will try to set Penninah down on it without disturbing her.

[campanas]

Zzzzzz.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

If Pen wakes up much before sunset, she'll find Gloria and Klaudia still asleep.

[campanas]

Pen wakes up at about two in the afternoon. And wants breakfast. Can she get breakfast without waking anyone?

[maggie_of_the_owls]

There is, inconveniently enough, very little solid food in the apartment, but there is a bowl of fruit on one of the counters, presumably for guests.

[campanas]

Pen eats some fruit, and then looks for her stack of books.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

The books are in the bag Gloria put them in as they were leaving the club, set beside the sofabed.

[campanas]

Pen reads a book. Then she looks around for other things to do.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

There are other books on various shelves, but they are not intended for eight-year-olds. There are some reasonably blank walls she can probably get away with shooting arrows at.

[campanas]

But she shot arrows last night. And was not very good at it. Hmmm. What else is there in here?

[maggie_of_the_owls]

There is packaged red liquid in the fridge that, if Pen properly understands how vampires work, she can probably identify as blood. Also some other beverages. There is a television. There is a coffee table shoved off to the side to make room for the sofabed with a half-full sketchbook on it.

[campanas]

Pen doesn't recognize the TV, but she knows what a sketchbook is. She looks at the pictures in it.