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One Knitted Sweater

A. Phone. Early Morning. Unfiltered.

[It's not that Rose is an early bird. She's a rather regular bird, if the metaphor lends itself for such uses, but she wasn't supposed to be sleeping. Dave was supposed to be sleeping and waking up later, as per the effect she expected to cause after that yarn ball throw. Still, she was the one waking up in a place that was most definitely not Derse, unless they had suddenly populated the place with a completely outdated series of identical suburban houses.]

I seem to find myself in quite the predicament. On one hand, I have the imperative necessity to return to my duties, as they played a rather critical role yet to be defined. In the other hand, though, I am called by the Great Outdoors, as this new locale pleads to be explored.

But before I devote myself to that enterprise I would like to ask for further instructions regarding the nature of this place.

[For the record, Rose sounds as if someone had done something of the magnitude of using all the sugar in the kitchen, not displacing her through time and space. She's really playing it cool here.]

B. Streets of Mayfield, Afternoon.

[And so Rose traverses the streets, sometimes silent, sometimes barely humming a tune, but always keeping an eye on everything. She doesn't even bother with the drones, leave alone the adult ones, but rather focus on those that have a certain shine in their eyes the canon fodder lacks. To them she gives more examination time, although she won't really engage in a conversation by her own initiative. Not until she has managed to get the upper hand in this place. Or in its default, to have lost her patience, whatever happens first.

But yeah she's wandering around, go bother her.]

C. Mayfield High. Fashionably Late.

[Like the coolest teenager, Rose arrives late to school...and goes directly to the yard, where she sits somewhere calm and with shade. The day has been too exciting -or rather, mildly exciting- to enter the classrooms; she'll have time to do that later. But it's a good time to have a chat with her fellow classmates, perhaps?]

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You're... taking this really well. You sure you're alright?

*Rose isn't the only one wandering through the streets of Mayfield in exploration, either. There's another girl doing the same, though she seems to be looking at practically everything in either surprise, befuddlement or wonder (or some combination thereof), since it's all a bit unfamiliar.

But that's nothing compared to the look of disbelief that a certain blonde human girl gets when she catches Kanaya's eye.

Since while Kanaya looks just like a tall and willowy girl with dark hair, Rose looks exactly like she is supposed to. And Kanaya has no idea what to think about that.

Sorry, Rose. She's staring.*

Edited 2011-09-13 07:19 (UTC)

Oh, you're asking for help. I can be of assistance, Seer.

[Someone sounds particularly bleary-eyed when she groggily answers the phone. There's a low canine grumble as Mika tries to wake up enough to answer.]

Sure, fire away. I was planning on waking up soon anyway.

[[He's going to stop by the yard between classes. Skipping study hall, planning to scribble in his little note pad.

Noticing someone else sitting out. He offers a friendly smile and wave, hoping it's not a drone girl ready to report him.]]

Hello, nice day and... uh... stuff like that.

You know, I agree about that great outdoors part, you might want try getting out of the house more often. Or maybe reading something that isn't the dictionary.

Huh? Does that mean you want to know what to do outside??

[As luck would have it, the only seat Feferi could find in the cafeteria? Right across from Rose.]

Hi! Would you like some company?

How can it be a critical role if it is not defined?

[Terezi is perched in the tree above her. after a moment she swings down, hanging onto a branch with her legs. she dangles upside down in Rose's face.

along with this bizarre greeting, she does not say 'hi' or even 'I'm upside-down!'.

she says:]

Lavender!

[as if this is supposed to make sense to Rose.

Terezi is, by the way, in her troll body again.]

[ He can totally do advice like a day after turning up. ]

Embrace your new best friend the picket fence, be bored shitless. Rinse and repeat.

[Ed's a little put off by how calm she is.]

What d'you want to know?

Jesus fucking Christ, you got quite a mouth on you. You decide to read through a thesaurus - or maybe a dictionary, whatever - one night when you couldn't sleep?

[As it so happens, Gamzee's also sought out a calm area with shade, although for a rather different reason. Hope you don't mind being interrupted from your thoughts by a loud, honking snore from the clown boy asleep nearby.]

[ Jade managed to miss Rose's phonecall this morning, so seeing her just chillin like it ain't no thang comes as a quite a surprise-- which explains the particularly loud gasp Jade is currently...gasping. ]

Rose!

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