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It's disorienting, to go from one's comfortable home in the forest of the Grotto with it's thick, tall trees and unending number of hiding spaces, and then suddenly be somewhere else.

Especially when somewhere else looks like this... once you replace all the buildings aside from the arch with rubble.

Despite the silence that she moves with and that her new place is completely effective in hiding every inch of her, it really won't be hard to find out where she's gone: follow the claw marks, in the ground and in the rubble.

She'll be watching.

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Penance isn't the only one who leaves claw marks in the landscape.

When Lucy's out flying - and she often is - the arch is a nice place to land for a while. Tall. Lucy likes tall places.

Possibly the landing of a long-limbed, skinny sort-of-dragon with glossy black scales on that arch will provoke interest.

Possibly not.

No, no, don't sell yourself short, Lucy - she's watching.

It's kind of cute, actually, the way Penance slowly crawls from the rubble, just enough to peek up and up and up at the bird-dragon-thing sitting on the arch. Her reaction can only be described as such:

*headtilt*

But there's more innocent curiosity than fear.

Stretching her wings, Lucy peers down over the edge of the arch.

A strange red person!

This calls for humanity.

She flaps once, twice, and dives neatly, landing about twenty feet away (you can never be too careful; it would probably displease Clark if she ATE this girl).

Downshift to human, and: "Hello?"

Look, she's being friendly!

Eep!

The strange red person jerks back into the shadows, blue eyes open wide. She doesn't seem to notice when her hair slices into the rubble, sending chunks of concrete falling to the ground around her.

Then again, she hasn't retreated all the way in either, just watching Lucy carefully.

...Huh.

Lucy headtilts.

Someone else who doesn't speak much!

:D!

Hesitant wave.

Penance continues staring for several minutes before lifting her own hand in a tiny wave.

:|?

More cement chunks are falling with that wave but there are more important things to worry about now! Like PERSON. Dragon-Person!

Lucy grins brightly.

Penance is her kind of gal!

She has an apple in her pocket.

...And she starts eating it, because the objective here is to not munch on the interesting stranger.

Apple! Apples are nice! Penance likes apples! Jono gave her apples! Jono is also nice!

And thus, Lucy is suddenly far more likely to also be nice.

There's a bit of scrabbling as Penance inches her way forward, still watching Lucy warily - as much for her own safety as to make sure Lucy wants her closer.

She saw what happened to the concrete.

Lucy shifts up to the other self, tosses down the rest of the apple (they are yummy!), and digs another one out of her other pocket, holding it out.

Friendly smiles don't look good on dragon faces, so she keeps her teeth covered. But the headtilting is vaguely cheerful!

Penance is far more relaxed with dragon-Lucy, though human-Lucy is still kind of on her mind.

And then there are APPLES and Lucy is awesomest ever! Penance's headtilt is cheerful right back and she reaches forward to carefully pierce her apple with one finger.

Then it is time for om nom noms.

Om nom noms are good!

Lucy can't help but grin.

And wonder what sort of crazy person is more relaxed when she's all claws-and-wings-and-tail.

Possibly the same sort of person who can cut concrete with her hair. Maybe she's like Clark!

...This requires testing.

Lucy reaches out tentatively with the aim of nudging Penance's hand with the back of one claw, although of course if there looks to be jerking-away-from she will pull back.

There is no jerking away, but Penance does stop attacking her apple, most of the core still hanging off one finger. Those wide blue eyes are flickering between Lucy and her claw, watching warily but making no move to stop her from touching.

Hand-and-claw make a funny little ticking sound when tapped together but Penance's hand doesn't seem to suffer for it.

Neither does Lucy's, for that matter.

She beams and taps Penance's finger delicately with the point, this time.

The total lack of ouch from the other girl's direction results in much dragonish grinning.

And hee, funny ticking sound!

Penance seems to understand that Lucy is grinning and not trying to eat her face. Lucy gets a small smile in return, one of those scissor-fingered hands to allow her to continuing tapping where she likes. She's not quite sure what the dragon wants, but she seems to be enjoying herself!

Lucy is totally ~~regretting not having expression icons for her other self~~ enjoying herself, yes.

Satisfied that she's not going to end up hurting the funny red girl, she beams again and finally quits tapping her.

A small step back and a downshift, for the sake of introducing herself (talking is difficult with draconic vocal equipment).

"I'm Lucy."

She shifts back up pretty damn quick, though. Penance seems to like her other self better.

Penance flinches a little at the shift but relaxes once Lucy-dragon is back. The name only gets a headtilt in return.

And a smile.

Very, very carefully, Penance lifts a hand and wiggles her fingers curiously in Lucy's direction. Should she be tapping back? Would that be a fun game?

Possibly!

Lucy touches a hesitant claw-tip to the pointy end of one of Penance's fingers.

...The ways dangerous people amuse themselves are often bizarre.

Penance continues to glance nervously between Lucy's gaze and her claw, and gives a very gentle tap to the claw tip.

DID IT HURT? WAS IT OKAY?

Dangerous people are occasionally utterly adorable.

It was okay! (Ticking noises and everything!)

Lucy goes :D!

...given how her face is shaped, it's really more like B=8D, but. Details, details.

This whole tapping thing is totally a revelation!

Penance is stunned.

And then Penance grins and it's such a slow, awkward expression, she's obviously not used to it. Lucy is tappable! She can touch her and no one dies! This is BEST EVER.

*taptaptaptaptap*

Penance is absolutely in love with this new development.

B=8D!!!!

*taptap*

There is much dragonish beaming to be had here, ohyes.

*tappity-taptap*

Other hand is taken up with the eating of apple, nom nom nom. At least until the core is nearly bare on her finger.

Then it is time for great sadfacing. Oh apple, why?

Headtiiiiilt.

Tentative wing-flapping, which is meant to convey I could get you another one!

There are totally orchards nearby. (For a definition of near that works for a girl who flies regularly to Hawaii for pineapples.)

Wings are kind of neat. Paige had wings once. She didn't get any delicious things for Penance, though.

Lucy, it seems, is way cooler.

Penance smiles and taps a few more times before sitting back, head tilted. Assuming she understood right, she should be getting some yums in a minute.

Flapflapflap.

She goes.

She comes back.

With pears! And a pineapple. But mostly pears.

There is beaming, and handing-over of fruit.

This thing is new but it kind of smells like an apple. Penance tilts her head far to the right to inspect it before trying to pierce it with a finger.

squish

It's much softer than an apple. Penance has juice on her face and looks utterly surprised to find it there.

Dragons can't giggle.

Guess what Lucy is doing regardless!

Penance does not like being giggled at!

Oh wait, yes, she does. Or at least she doesn't seem to mind, looking up at Lucy with juice dripping down her nose and smiling when the pear isn't taken away. It attacked her but it could still be delicious.

And, upon further exploration including lifting the pear and some very careful nibbling, it certainly is.

Pears are delicious, it's true.

Lucy, unfortunately, doesn't have quite the right oral equipment to enjoy one at the moment, but watching Penance eat is almost as fun! B=8D!

Penance enjoys the act of Penance eating, too! It really is quite enjoyable.

But eventually the pear is gone and her hands are sticky. And while the red girl doesn't seem particularly put out by this, she is looking up at Lucy from her crouch with a shy smile.

Shy as much as it's lost, anyway. Delicious fruits aside, she still has no idea where she is.

Lucy has been pondering a similar quandary, actually.

She steps back a few feet to downshift and speak.

"Want to come home with me?"

And back up to the other self, to wait for an answer.

No longer startled by the shifts, Penance is still finding them pretty odd. She tilts her head again when Lucy turns human, but has no response for the dragon.

Other than blinking and a smile, anyway.

Hmm. Well.

Still holding the lone pineapple in one ~~hand~~ claw, Lucy-dragon shrugs a glossy black shoulder and starts walking Kansaswards, in a very come-follow-me way.

It can't be that far, right? She can fly it in no time!

More headtilting but... Lucy has a pineapple. Logic leads Penance to believe this pineapple is also delicious.

Plus, Lucy is nice.

Very slowly, and some distance away at first, Penance begins to follow, preferring to crawl over and under the rubble than stick to clear streets.

Lucy stays in the open areas for the most part. It's the wings. They take up space. And walking is strange, so there's a lot of tiny little flights to be had, and many lookings-back at Penance to see she's still following. Occasionally a wave.

Occasionally Penance waves back. More often than not, she's ducking into the rubble because the lookings-back are a bit nerve-wracking, but there are also waves.

Eventually, she gets more careful of that, too, because the falling concrete is kind of a slipping hazard when it comes out of nowhere.

But she's certainly following.

Eventually Luce gets used to listening instead of looking.

Also, eventually, there is stopping and holding-out of pineapple.

It is delicious! Penance should have some!

Lucy is seriously reaching BFF status here. But Penance doesn't want to be rude.

ksshh!

There! Now they both have half a pineapple! Om nom noms!

B=8D!!!

Om nom noms.

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