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Arkady of the FreakAngels (justalilmental) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2010-03-21 23:57:00

Entry tags:

arkady, mary

Who: Arkady & Mary
Where: Central Park
When: Late afternoon
What: Random meeting
Warnings: Arkady's not all there, but there shouldn't be.

Arkady was standing in the edge of the duckpond, ankle-deep, the edge of her patchwork skirt drifting across the surface now and then in the intermittent breeze, she was barefoot, and through the filmier swatches of fabric on the skirt it was apparent that her legs were bare. She was wearing a jacket, at least, and staring off at some unseen point in the middle distance.

Judging by the fact that the ducks had surrounded her again, she'd probably been standing still for quite some time, the oppressive cloud cover that had been rolling over the city for most of the day finally broke, letting down a sheet of rain, none of which seemed to touch the girl in the pond.

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	virginal_ 2010-03-22 07:06 am UTC (link)
	Mary had been cutting through Central Park on her way home from getting groceries. She had her tote bag that she used as a purse and a cloth sack filled with food - she liked to walk to get groceries, no reason she couldn't get exercise and multitask! - when she saw the girl in the pond. She wandered over to her and smiled, not wanting to interrupt. (Reply to this)

$Arkady of the FreakAngels: rain \o/$

justalilmental
2010-03-22 07:09 am UTC (link)

Arkady tilted her head up, apparently enjoying her dry spot in the middle of the sudden downpour, but she let it go again a moment later, letting the rain sweep over her as well, it was a warm, spring rain, not like the icy cold London rain she'd been carting around for a while. Probably she had no idea that she'd even changed cities.

The ducks had scattered again at the first splash of rain, and when Arkady realized it she sighed, shaking her head and turning to step out of the pond and onto solid ground again, which was when she spotted Mary, "Oh." That was a 'hi', really.

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	virginal_ 2010-03-22 07:16 am UTC (link)
	"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make your friends leave you!" Mary fished around in her purse, finding a plastic Baggie filled with raspberry-white chocolate cookies, handing it over to the girl. "This looks like your flavor." She had a knack for this sort of thing. (Reply to this)

	justalilmental 2010-03-22 07:18 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, it's alright, they don't like the rain." She said, and just like that, the two women were in another circle of calm, though the rain was still going on around them. Arkady blinked at the cookies, then she beamed, giving Mary a quick, if soggy, hug, "Thank you!" She blinked then, tilting her head and squinting one eye, "Have we met? Sometimes I forget things." (Reply to this)

	virginal_ 2010-03-22 07:20 am UTC (link)
	Mary smiled at the dry, shaking out her hair and then grinning and returning the soggy hug with one of her own. "I don't think so, I'd remember you if we had, you're really pretty. My name's Mary." (Reply to this)

	justalilmental 2010-03-22 07:23 am UTC (link)
	"Ohhh." She nodded, "That explains it." Just what this explained was anyone's guess, since she followed it up with, "Where are we right now?" Her accent was distinctly London, and more than that it was Whitechapel, which was some variation on Liverpool. (Reply to this)

	virginal_ 2010-03-22 07:28 am UTC (link)
	"New York." She shrugged a little. "It's easy to get lost in the park, it doesn't seem much like New York at all!" (Reply to this)

	justalilmental 2010-03-22 07:35 am UTC (link)
	"It's not the same as London either." She agreed, "And I'm pretty sure that's where I was this morning. But maybe not, sometimes I forget that too." (Reply to this)

	virginal_ 2010-03-22 07:37 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, it's okay, it happens to all of us." She smiled and sat down on the grass, sorting through her shopping. Nothing cold, mostly veggies, so she had time to chat. In her purse, she had some graham crackers, so she started to munch on those, offering crumbs to the ducks. (Reply to this)

justalilmental
2010-03-22 07:44 am UTC (link)

She actually smiled at that, flopping down as well, just settling crosslegged, she didn't mind the mud, or the fact that she had pond muck still ringing her ankles, she laughed at the ducks being confused by the edge of the rain without any sort of overhead cover.

It wasn't long before they had a group of the braver ones all settling down on the grass around them, which just made Arkady grin again, "Silly ducks."

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	virginal_ 2010-03-22 07:45 am UTC (link)
	"I always wonder why they're so brave. They have teeth, sure, but they're really really brave." She pulled out a baggie filled with old bread that she carried just for ducks (she really did cut through the park a lot) and handed Arkady some if she wanted to feed them. (Reply to this)

	justalilmental 2010-03-22 07:48 am UTC (link)
	"It's because they don't have claws like the squirrels do." She said, as if this made perfect sense. She grinned again as she accepted the bread, tearing off small pieces and doling them out to the ducks easily enough. (Reply to this)

	virginal_ 2010-03-22 07:50 am UTC (link)
	Mary held them out in her palms, smiling as they sweetly took them out of her hand, not a one nipping too hard at her. She even managed to sneak a scritch on the back of the neck of a particularly pretty and gutsy duck, giggling when it squawked indignantly. (Reply to this)

	justalilmental 2010-03-22 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	That made Arkady smile as well, her sour mood from earlier already forgotten. She was easily distracted, after all, laughing again as more ducks attempted to sneak into the dry spot. (Reply to this)