InsaneJournal

Tinkering
Who: Mel and Colin
Where: City Hall
When: Mid-day

Mel was going stir-crazy with nothing to fix and nothing to build. Once the initial shock of their arrival had worn off, Mel's fingers had started to itch...and her parents had learned early that when Mel's fingers were itching, something was bound to end up in pieces.

With no other project to focus her attention on, Mel had decided to take apart the large clock set in the wall of City Hall. It wasn't that she had noticed a problem with it -- it was just that clocks usually possessed such an intricate system of gears... Once the image of so many little pieces popped into Mel's head, she could scarcely think of anything else.

Tools in hand, Mel had settled on the stairs outside of City Hall. Her long hair was pulled back into a hasty bun behind her head, and it was already beginning to slip free of its confines. Mel was so intent on her goal that she scarcely noticed: the large face of the clock sat beside her, and she balanced the backing on her knees. The round pane was easily three feet across -- and although she could not even begin to examine the components in the top half of the clock, her eyes were currently drawn to a nest of gears at its base, all ticking tirelessly away as she carefully worked around them.

Cripes, but this clock needed a good cleaning... It was probably a good thing she came along.