✼ 1st zap | action ✼ forward-dated to the morning of 9/18

[lightningcute]

[Luceti, behold! There is a young girl sleeping in the plaza fountain today. Yes, in the fountain, her back propped against the rim and her white New Feather dress bobbing in the water. Her head is resting on her journal as though it were a pillow

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[pigtailed_loli]

[Oh hey, there's a girl in the fountain. Is this thing common around here? Having recently arrived, Anise didn't know, but she figured she might as well give the girl a poke before she accidentally drowned herself. So, there you are! Poke poke poke at the back of your head, please to be waking up now?]

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin groans...and then just lets her head loll to the side. Might have to try something else!]

[pigtailed_loli]

[Jeez, she should just leave you here. ):< But Anise is a sweet and good-natured girl who's hoping she'll get a reward for this, so she stops poking and leans forward to shout in Pao-lin's ear.]

WAKE UP, YOU IDIOT!

[lightningcute]

[That does it! Pao-lin yelps and flinches to the side, turning slightly to see who the heck is yelling into her ear. She looks like she's about to ask who Anise is, but then she notices that she's sitting in a fountain in a very unfamiliar place.

Even worse, she's wearing a dress.

Shivering a little, Pao-lin gets to her feet, her arms crossed over her chest, and looks around.]

What's going on...? Wh-where is this place?

[pepepepen]

[Cloche is up early today, exploring the village proper and...

...uh. Person in fountain? Cloche is going to approach her slowly and kind of. Nudge her a little. Hopefully not hard enough to actually submerge her into the water and oh god she hopes this girl is not dead.]

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin mumbles something intelligible and tilts her head to the other side. Hmm. This may require something stronger.]

[pepepepen]

[...ok, fine. Cloche's going to lean in and try to talk. She'll use her normal speaking voice PLUS some nudging.]

Hey, if you sleep here you'll get sick!

1/2

[lightningcute]

[..............]

[subsultive]

[O-Oh dear. Luca's just going to

geeeently try to lift her up out of the water without waking her, mostly because it's rude to interrupt sleeping and if someone can fall asleep in the water then, uh, maybe they're really tired. And need the sleep.]

1/???

[lightningcute]

[At first, Pao-lin barely stirs...]

2/???

[lightningcute]

[...but then the wind blowing in over her wet skin causes her to shiver, and she slowly comes to.]

3/???

[lightningcute]

[Irrationally, the first thing she notices is that she's wearing a soaking wet dress. So she jerks out of Luca's grasp and tries to cover herself with her arms...only to stumble to her knees in the fountain. SPLASH!]

[justicereigns]

Whoa kid, are you all right?

[Alright starts taking off his jacket to give to her until he can get her to something better.]

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin's all right, more or less. Just, um, sleeping. So you might need to poke her a bit.]

[justicereigns]

[Lightly nudges.]

Hey kid...

1/???

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin grimaces, her nose wrinkling as she smells the cigar smoke coming from Smoker.]

[ratatosk_knight]

[... sleeping in the fountain is not good, even if it IS pretty warm out still. So Emil is just going to be going over to her and trying to get her attention by calling out to her. He's still a little hesitant about just touching a stranger without giving any sort of warning.]

Hey, um, are you okay...?

[lightningcute]

[zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

[ratatosk_knight]

[Okay, let's try something a little more drastic now. Emil reaches out to tap her gently on the shoulder, still hesitant to be too forceful.]

Hello?

[lightningcute]

[zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Boy howdy, she's snoozing like a rock. o_o;;]