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[tower_bound]

[Okay, you can do this, Rapunzel, you can do this. Just follow the directions, it can't be hard. Well, maybe not the saying hello to people part, though successfully turning on the odd communication... thing... is proving to be quite the challenge.

In fact, it may or may not have taken her tripping over her own hair to hit the correct button; inattentive pacing isn't conductive to grace, but it seems to do the trick in terms of technological difficulties.

She sits up and takes a moment of looking quizzically at the device, turning it around, peering at the screen from every possible angle. Behind her are trees and grass; it should be pretty clear she's calling from somewhere in the park.

But is it on? What is it doing? Does she have to press anything else? She talks now, correct?]

Am... am I doing this right?

Hello?

Comments

[doublebladed]

Well...what do they look like?

[tower_bound]

Hmm... let's see... Mother usually wears a red dress, and she has defined cheekbones and curly black hair. Flynn's a brunet, and he wears a blue vest with buckle clasps.

[doublebladed]

Huh. Can't say I've seen either of them around. I'll keep looking though and send them your way if I do.

[tower_bound]

I didn't think they were here already... but thank you for keeping a lookout. I know Mother is probably worried sick and Flynn... well, he's probably happy to be rid of me.

[doublebladed]

What? Why would you say that?

[tower_bound]

Because... I might have blackmailed him just a tinsy bit. I needed someone to show me the way to the city and back home so I could see the floating lanterns before Mother returned from her trip.

[doublebladed]

It was that hard to find a map instead?

[tower_bound]

I... didn't exactly have access to a map. Mother never kept any in the tower; she didn't need them.

[doublebladed]

...really? Your mother was that smart? [That's sort of impressive, and kinda weird.]

[tower_bound]

Well... I don't think she traveled too terribly far. Mostly she just went to... someplace or other to buy food and whatever else we needed. Every couple of years, though, she'd make a trip that lasted a few days.

For the most part, she was never gone very long, though.