I can't let myself regret such selfishness.

[ohboythepipes]

Danny Smalls wrote an entry to people he knows. He said he was leaving, and he is. He's walking out the front doors of the Kashtta without anything but the wallet in his pocket. There's something to be said about having nothing, no possessions, no anything. It's freeing, isn't it? Nothing tying him down. Nothing to care about. He's not planning on

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[quiettotheend]

Tabitha plops down next to Robin, grinning stupidly herself. She's just been feeling fantastic lately, and there's no reason not to let it show.

She also has a potted plant in her lap. It's a fern. Someone gave it to her when she was in the hospital, and now she's just getting back most of her possessions. She really wishes it were like, a kitten or a puppy instead, but she's never been allowed to have any of those.

The closest thing she's ever had to a pet was her mother. And that really doesn't count. She stares at Robin for a long moment and then down at her plant, giggling to herself.

[despite_myrage]

It is one thing to smile to oneself while sitting on a bench, thinking of a loved one. It is another entirely to sit on a bench with a plant and giggle.

This is in Robin's highly expert opinion.

He gives the girl a sideways look, wondering if she isn't a bit mad.

"...nice plant."

[quiettotheend]

"Thank you," Tabitha says, still grinning. "Do you always talk to squirrels?"

This is apparently of utmost importance. Man Who Talks to Squirrels looks like he's having a decent enough day himself. She puts the plant by her feet, staring up at the sky.

"I kind of wish it were a puppy instead. I've never had a puppy."

Apparently today is "talk to crazy strangers" day.

[despite_myrage]

"No, only when they attempt to sniff my shoes," Robin says as if this is completely normal. "Shoe sniffing can lead to suit eating, and I can't have that. I've ruined too many suits in this city."

The sad thing is that he's completely serious at the moment.

"Puppies aren't all they're cracked up to be," he says, which isn't exactly true.

He had one once, and then he gave it to a young family who could really use the puppy. It seemed better that way.

"At least plants don't slobber."

[playingtetris]

There is something hilarious about trying to sneak back to the Kashtta soaking wet and then tripping over someone else sopping wet. Sailor Mercury just stares at Elizabeth for a few moments before smiling. She's wet because she got backspray when she was saving some people from some monsters.

"I am very sorry about that," she says softly, stepping over Elizabeth and nodding her head slowly. "I hope you can come to accept my apology."

[pplrunincircles]

Elizabeth makes a squeak when she's tripped over. She waves a hand around vaguely and smiles.

"Definitely don't have to be sorry," she says, getting to her feet and wringing her hair out a bit. "I mean, I was lying in the middle of the grass like a bump on a log or something! Plus, I trip over stuff and on people all the time! It'd be like hypocritical of me to be all forever angry at you for tripping over me."

It takes her a moment, but then she realizes this girl is wet too! The outfit doesn't even register as weird to Elizabeth but that's Elizabeth.

"Did you fall in the fountain too?"

[playingtetris]

It takes a bit longer than Mercury would like for Elizabeth's words to make sense. She's well aware that she doesn't have to be sorry. She would argue, though, that she can't help it. She's the one who tripped over Elizabeth. Mercury's almost positive she should be sorry. But then she realizes that's not what Elizabeth means at all; she means she's accepted her apology. Which brings a smile to Mercury's face.

"Fall in the fountain?" she repeats, looking slightly confused as she stares down at her clothes. It takes a few moments for those words to click, too. Well, it starts with her remembering that she's currently sopping wet. "Oh, no. I was apprehending some aliens when a couple of monsters attacked a group of school children, and in attempting to save them from an almost certain death, I managed to soak myself with my own powers."

She gives Elizabeth a timid smile, before looking slightly mortified. "I probably should not have said that."

[pplrunincircles]

Elizabeth is going to stare for a very long time.

It's not that she doesn't understand the words. The words make all the sense, but she's trying to put two and two together to reach a conclusion, to be sure that she's reaching a good one instead of acting crazy.

She gasps and then grins.

"Ohmygod, are you a superhero? Like a real, honest-to-goodness superhero standing right in front of me? That's so--" She shakes her head in surprise, and then... this is what Josef calls her pre-ramble face. It heralds the coming of a ramble. "And this is your costume and everything, isn't it? What are you called? I bet it's super cool. I tried to think up a superhero name for myself once like when I was playing pretend, not with actual super powers or anything. The best that I could come up with is Twirl Girl, cause I-- in my pretend, I had a power where I twirled and it knocked stuff down like buildings and things!"

[starryeyed_cass]

Another beautiful day, another perfect excuse to wear a summer-dress! Cassie's out taking full advantage of the warm weather - she's been staying in the shade most of the day with her face, arms, shoulders and back covered in sunscreen. She burns easily, it's not very fun.

She's been walking through the grass of the park, she's even taken off her sandals - it feels good to feel the grass in between her toes! As she wanders along, she spies a familiar face lying in the grass. Peering over her sunglasses, she smiles brightly. Elizabeth!

Cassie heads over and stands over her, grinning down, "Hello stranger!" she beams happily. Then she notices through her tinted lenses and frowns slightly, "Did you go for a swim or something?"

[pplrunincircles]

Elizabeth smiles up at her from the ground. It's a bright expression, and she climbs to her feet as soon as she recognizes who it is.

"Hey!" She says and goes to hug her before she stops when she remembers that she's all wet. Right. She is dripping all over the ground.

There's a small smile that pulls over her face. The Yeah, I'm dumb smile. It's common with her, because she often does stuff that's kinda on the dumb side.

"I... fell in the fountain? It's kind of a long story, but there was like a frisbee and then there was the like wall around the fountain, which like jumped out in front of my legs. So I went for an accidental swim? You could say?"

[starryeyed_cass]

Cassie laughs as the sopping wet girls goes to hug her and stops abruptly as she realises. It's not a harsh laugh, just a sort of girlish giggle - it's something Cassie would probably forget about. Hell, she probably has done it before.

She tilts her head to one side, grinning brightly. "Yeah, that looks about right. Stupid wall for being in the way, huh?" she comments with another chuckle.

"How've you been?" she asks with a cheery look, "I haven't seen you since I got here!"

[pplrunincircles]

"Yep, pretty much," Elizabeth says, wrinkling her nose and ducking her head as she laughs. "Stupid walls always seem to be in the way. Walls and sticks and cracks in the sidewalk... And people call me clumsy!"

She isn't clumsy. It's simply that objects like to trip her all the time! Duh!

"I've been pretty good." She shrugs a bit, twisting a strand of hair between her finger. "Yeah, I tend to get all busy with the angel stuff. How are you? I mean, like cause you're the one settling into this big, dark world of Chicago-ness."

The fact that she is still alive is promising, not that Elizabeth likes to assume that people will die, but she knows that it happens all the time. Every day. It's very easy to die, especially in a city like this.