Rain, Rain, Rain Who: Mia and OPEN Where: Out around the Arenas When: Mid-Morning July 23 What: It's raining and Mia is trying to decipher the invitation to the party on Friday. Someone wanna lend a hand.
It was raining. Whether or not it was raining on the whole island, Mia didn't know and couldn't have cared. No one had ever tried to explain the concept of weather to her, which was just as well as it would have elicited a blank stare or three once you got past the concepts of sunshine and rain. Those were really the only two seasons she had ever seen. There was a little bit, very vague, of snow...but that was when she made it herself, not because the island ever had such a thing. That and she'd seen it on TV. Either way, Mia was sitting outside in the warm rain, just letting it run over her, with a piece of paper in her hand that was by some miracle still dry enough to read.
Of course, the only problem with that was that Mia's ability to read had only progressed as far as things like see dog run. Therefore, most of the words were simply out of her league. Yet she was sitting on the grass in the rain staring at the paper as though she were magically going to understand.
In her case, that was possible. One day she would look up and she could understand the complete works of William Shakespeare and give a lecture series on Steven Hawkins, but it wasn't really likely. There were some things that her brain apparently wanted to get on its own...for whatever reason.
Either way, it was raining and she sat there staring at a sheet of dry paper, looking for the meanings of the ages in the printed sheet. Something said that this was important...a lot of people had this same sheet of paper, so it had to be important right if they gave it to everybody. Getting up, Mia decided she needed help, yes as usual this was a decision that practically had to pass committee in order to get her to get up and go find a person, not even a person she recognized, and touch them before trying to hand them the piece of paper.
"Help me?" That wide helpless look in her eyes made it hard to say no to her, but some people could.