[Complete]

[dropofsunlight]

Characters: Rapunzel, Vin (and anyone else who wants to stumble across the new arrival)
Time: late afternoon
Location: the Bean!
Content: Barefoot and drenched Disney princess shows up in the Chicago winter.  This can't go well.
Format: Prose

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[doomedtheworld]

The summoning happened in patterns. At least that's how it seemed to Vin

[dropofsunlight]

As the spray of snow rose into the air, Rapunzel leaped further into the lee of the Bean, flattening herself against it, a small sound of alarm escaping her. When she went to pull her hair in after her, though, she discovered another very unpleasant side effect of the cold.

Staring in bewilderment at the yards and yards of now stiff hair, she stammered, "My hair is f-fr-frozen. My hair is frozen. H-h-hair freezes?!"

Rapunzel had been managing her constantly growing hair through strength and resourcefulness and practice her entire life. Nothing, however, had prepared her for her current predicament.

"Who ar-r-re you," she demanded of the person who had appeared with the disturbance of the snow, "and why d-d-did you br-r-ring me here?"

[doomedtheworld]

Vin hesitated when the girl jumped out of reach, frowning. She didn't have very much room to complain about the reaction, Vin had pulled a knife on the first person she'd met in the city, but if that frozen hair was any indication there wasn't time to give the full explanation out in the park.

Hoping to put the girl at ease she didn't move any closer for the moment and pulled her hood back, letting her see her face.

"My name is Vin. I didn't bring you here but I'm here to help you and I'll explain everything I can but first we have to get you inside before you freeze." Slowly she held a hand out but stayed where she was, letting Rapunzel take the first step. "I'm not going to hurt you, I promise."

[chosenfreedom]

Thank... well somebody (but he wasn't thanking God for any damn thing for his own reasons) for warm winter clothes. Dean had gloves on and a warm padded leather jacket against the cold. Was still hunting for something he could fix up to drive but his steps took him past the giant bean. Weird ass sculpture but he paused at hearing somebody there. He came around the side, and saw the young woman shivering and huddled down.

With seriously freakishly long hair.

...ooookay. Well as long she wasn't a witch. He came closer and beckoned to her.

"Come on, can't stay out here, and there's warm hotels nearby. You just get dumped down here right? Happened to me a few weeks ago."

[dropofsunlight]

"Well," Rapunzel agreed, eyes darting between the girl and the man, "I d-d-do want to g-go inside. W-what's a hot-t-tel? Does it h-have a firepl-pl-place?"

She reached out and gave her hair a tug, stumbling back against the metal sculpture again as the hair came free from the ground. Thankfully it had only begun freezing to the ground in addition to freezing together. She accepted Vin's hand and took a step toward Dean. Rapunzel's hair, rather than slipping easily along behind her a bit at a time as she turned, moved all together in a large awkward clump. That could be problematic.

"Who a-a-are you?" she asked again.

((Combining threads because otherwise continuity would get very confusing.))

[doomedtheworld]

Vin took Rapunzel's hand and frowned past her at the massive clump of hair she was dragging along. She had never even heard of somebody letting their hair grow that long, it had to be a tremendous pain to drag around. With her free hand she opened her coat and shrugged out of it so she could drape it around the shivering girl. The walk back would be unpleasant without it but she needed it more than Vin right now.

"It does and the whole thing is heated at once somehow." She frowned at the clump of frozen hair again. "We should probably cut that off. It will just slow you down."

[chosenfreedom]

Dean tossed a look to Vin on that with a silent question if she wasn't going to be cold before turning his attention back to the blonde. He stepped closer to her, his face reassuring.

"I'm Dean, and she's right. There's too many things out here that you need to run fast from to carry all that extra weight. I got a knife. Ain't a stylist so it'll be rough, but you can get it fixed later."