WHO: Giselle and many folks, no doubt
WHERE: Ccccentral park, and perhaps elsewhere if led away!
WHEN: The days following the rise of the geeks (tues, wed, thurs, fri? PICK SOME)
WARNINGS: EXCESSIVE SMILING AND USE OF "OH" AS A SENTENCE-STARTER. Also a strong likelihood of busting out into song/dance (I WILL PM IF THIS BECOMES IMMINENT).
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It did make her a little late, however, seeing as she was trying to get her cab driver to follow a robin that knew the way to the MAC (Giselle sure didn't!). Of course, all of that was surprisingly over and done with when she did say 'MAC' - apparently he already knew where it was! It was quite a relief. She sure hoped that cab driver had no hard feelings for the trouble she'd accidentally put him through.
While Giselle craned her neck up and marveled at the residential building, her bird friend took to flying up to the proper window, tittering when it found Rapnuzel there. It gave a loud series of chirps down to Giselle below, who waved her thanks before going inside.
It took another few minutes to negotiate the elevator, picking wrong floors before a kind stranger indicated stairs. Stairs! That was much easier.
Before it seemed like she'd vanished into thin air, she was knocking on the door, smoothing the flyaways in her hair down. Goodness, but it was hard work making rendezvous on time!
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When the knock came a few minutes later, Rapunzel laughed to herself. Giselle talked to birds, she had said, so that would explain the odd behavior. "It's open!" She called out pleasantly, since she wasn't expecting anyone else this morning. The apartment was perfectly clean, and would've looked it too if not for the hair draped over pretty much everything. Rapunzel was a foot or so into her braid (which was almost as wide as her waist at this point) which meant she'd managed to make about ten feet of hair disappear.
Which left a lot.
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"Ohh! Oh, my, it's even shinier in person! Your hair is so beautiful!"
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"Thank you! Don't worry too much about stepping on it, it's very strong." Considering she used it as a level and pully system back home it probably made sense. She'd managed to string most of it across the couch and some chairs.
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"Here, I'll help with this side, and you do that, and we'll be done in no time."
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"Thank you so much for this, Giselle. We wouldn't have been able to leave till after lunch if I did it on my own!" Even getting up early, Rapunzel's hair was...well...a task.
But with two people, just look how quick it went.
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Strangely enough, that part was the shortest to get through. She hardly noticed.
"Looks like we have time for lunch and then some!" Giselle replied, giving a little applause, encouraging the girl to do a showing twirl of her new up-do. She hopped to her feet, regarding the fine work fondly until she couldn't possibly hold back anymore; she held out her arms to embrace her. "Oh, I'm so glad we finally have been able to meet like this! It's really so wonderful."
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She accepted the embrace with almost as big a smile, hugging the other tightly. "I know!" It was strange, the way they met people without meeting people in the city. Through the phones, it didn't really count. "I'm so excited," she added as she stepped back, clasping her hands together. "This is going to be so much fun!"
Pascal just watched them both from the window. He doesn't seem terribly impressed.
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And that was all the motivation she needed to tug the girl by the hand out the door - nearly forgetting that said door ought to be closed on the way out - and bouncing down the many flights of stairs as if elevators didn't exist at all. Outside, she had a chance to show off her cab-hailing skills (she was actually getting pretty good at it; being pretty seemed to help) and secure them a ride without a hitch.
"We want to go to the statue!" she cheerfully announced to their driver.
She looked more than baffled when the man asked Which statue?
Her eyes darted to her younger friend helplessly.
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She'd never actually been in a car, really, so this was all fairly impressive, and she smiled brightly and poked at the leather of the seat in front of them, almost missing the conversation between Giselle and the driver.
As if she could sense eyes on her she looked up. "What?" Her mind ran through the conversation she'd been ignoring, and she smiled brightly. "Oh! The Statue. It's, it's on an island, the statue of...libertines?"
Oh she hoped that was right...
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She glanced over at Giselle during the ride, probably just as much as the other did, her hands in her lap, tugging nervously on her skirt. Pascal eventually emerged from her collar but Rapunzel shooed him back into hiding, since some people didn't like seeing him.
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"There, I see it!" she squealed, practically falling on Rapunzel as the cab took a sharp turn, the seemingly endless walls of buildings and alleys finally clearing to expose the coast and its giant sentinel. "Look!"
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He disappeared again when Giselle almost tackled her, and Rapunzel laughed as it came into view, peering silently through the window after. She could tell even from so far away it must have been amazingly tall..she thought she'd never get used to that, really, not ever. The fact that things could be taller than Mother's Tower and yet weren't mountains still seemed so strange to her.
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"Ohhh, just look!" The scale was a lot more impressive from where they were, and they weren't even that close. "Have you ever seen a person that big before?" Not even the ogre that had tried to eat her was so large.
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Without hesitating she caught Giselle's hand and hurried down towards where the ferries to take them across where, bare feet slapping against the sidewalk as she went. She slid to a stop though and paused. "Uhm," she glanced back at the other, and then at the boats.
"...I guess we take the one that just says 'Ferry?'"
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