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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 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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