characters: April and a mean old guard, and Jake Hale setting: The Marketplace, Wednesday, November 29, 2017, mid-morning summary: April gets in the way rating: TBD, but probably Low
April needed a coat. It was November already, and she didn't have a good coat for the winter. The problem was, she needed more than one coat. The same coat she could wear now would not do when she was little. She'd counted the money left over from her monthly stiped about six times before hiding it securely in her pocket and made the short trip to the busy little area. She suddenly regretted buying all that candy earlier in the month. It was delicious, but it was a lot of money she'd wasted on something silly. She would do better next month. Maybe, hopefully.
While she'd only lived on Destruction for three months, April had learned several very valuable lessons in that short time. Lesson #1: Don't lose your money! Sometimes people are mean and want to steal it, or get you to give it to them by tricking you. Lesson #2: Always be nice. If you were nice, odds were, most people would be nice to you in return. Like the nice lady who showed April how to make macaroni and cheese. And most important: Lesson #3. Don't get lost. Unfortunately, April was still working on that one.
April planned to go to the little clothing shop. She'd looked in the window and saw lots of nice things, and they had grown ups and kids clothing. It would be the perfect place to find a coat. But now, standing in the middle of the Marketplace, April had no idea where the store was. Standing in the middle of the walkway was probably not a good place to get one's bearings, but there April stood anyway, looking around like the lost little thing she was. Until a guard walked into her, far more forecefully than necessary, and sent her tumbling to the ground with a little squeak. "Get out of the way," the man barked at April. Scrambling to her feet, April brushed herself off and stepped out of the man's way with a little pout. "Do you happen to know where the clothing store is?" It was probably not a good idea to ask the person who just knocked her down for no reason, but April needed to work on her problem solving skills.