Who: 'Nitsa, Zhar'ptitsa [the Firebird/NPC] and Open! Where: Central park, near one of the east entrances to the park. When: Easter, midday. Warnings: 'Nitsa.
'Nitsa perched with legs drawn beneath her on a small bench, her dear friend, Zhara, perched equally daintily on 'Nitsa's thin shoulder. The sun was out, somewhat, and the air with a touch of winter remnants. Miss Midday idly chewed on a baby carrot, wide, cold eyes narrowing as she people-watched. Children were prancing around with baskets and bunnies and stuffed things, chirping about the Bunny, oh the Bunny, the Bunny came and it was amazing. Miss Midday did not like rabbits. If her spite for them were any worse, you might even consider it a fear. She loathed this whole holiday, disregarding completely the Christian component of it and having instead for decades, with disgust, focused on the flagrant bunny worship. Bunnies and their twitchy little noses. 'Nitsa shivered.
"Lady, you seem disgruntled," a little voice sing-songed in her ear. 'Nitsa glanced at the little green and blue canary on her shoulder, who had spent the last hour hopping back and forth between the Lady Midday - her mistress -, the bench, across the sidewalk, and back again, singing, delighting children, causing random mishaps like making children drop an Easter egg that had not been properly hard-boiled, only to crack and reveal a bit of good luck within - chocolate! Zhara was good and bad luck and adorable, all piled into one unfortunate canary shape. She'd once been grand, afire, a phoenix, unattainable, elusive. Now, well. There were pigeons more lucky and beautiful than Zhara.
"Oh, Zhara. I just, you know. Hate today. They're all so... oblivious. Except for those old men over there," she gestured idly to some men playing chess some ways away. They knew what this world was about, those ones, piecing it together pawn by pawn. She took another bite of a baby carrot, sighed, and continued people watching, feeling particularly forgotton. All Hail the Bunny, she thought, inwardly, and snickered quite bitterly.