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[neverplays]

Who: Mindy & ANYONE
When: No this is not horribly backdated. February 29th.
What: Leap Day turned Mindy's ROOM into a ballpit.
Where: Mindy's Room in the castle.



[HALP. Okay, not really help, but Mindy has lost everything in a sea of colored plastic balls. You might be able to see discernible landmarks of where her furniture used to be, but for the most part the floor has dropped seven feet and the ceiling has been lowered. It's just... a ballpit of doom.

Minus the doom. If you walk past her door, you might notice that the lowered ceiling also has knotted ropes, swings, ladders -- anything that might save you from drowning in the sea of colored balls.

She might throw one at you as you walk by. She's eleven twelve a kid. She can do these things.]

Comments

[whatialways_do]

[452 very nearly missing getting hit with one of those flying balls, and ... she can't help but investigate. Her head pokes around the doorway, and when she sees what's there -- well, she isn't entirely sure what to think]

[neverplays]

[Mindy pops her head up out of the balls.]

SORRY!

[whatialways_do]

[peers around the corner and looks over the balls]

What happened to your bunk?

[neverplays]

I have no clue, but it's a lot of fun. Come on in!

[whatialways_do]

[she hesitates at first. It doesn't seem ... safe. But she's too curious to say no, so she inches closer until she's standing at the edge of the pool.]

Do I just ... jump?

[neverplays]

YES. Jump in! [Whoever you are!]

[whatialways_do]

[nods and then does as she's told, jumping in and landing in the cushion of the balls.


... and there's a sound that might be a giggle.]

[neverplays]

[Mindy dives and swims through the balls, resurfacing a foot from the girl.]

It's awesome, right?

[whatialways_do]

[nods]

Yeah, it is.

[neverplays]

I'll race you! [And Mindy tears off to try and swim through the balls to the other end of her room.]

[whatialways_do]

[a little competition is always a good thing Max grins and starts to kick her feet to start to get across the room]

[neverplays]

[It is not as easy as it looks, and Mindy mostly wades through them, but she tries either way and makes it to the other side.

Popping up she looks around.]

Where'd you go?

[whatialways_do]

[pops up a little while later]

I'm here.

[neverplays]

[laughs]

I'm Mindy, by the way.

[whatialways_do]

[smiles back at the laughter, but hesitates. She knows that social convention requires that her name be given as well. She just didn't know what to do when she didn't have one, beyond what her sibs gave her.

She still isn't sure that this isn't a Manticore trap]

452.

[neverplays]

Your name is a number?

[whatialways_do]

That's my designation.

[neverplays]

Like military?

[whatialways_do]

[just nods]

[neverplays]

That's cool. My dad was a cop. He wasn't in the military though.

[whatialways_do]

We didn't talk much to the leos.

[they weren't allowed to. They asked too many questions]

[neverplays]

Who are the leos?

[whatialways_do]

[there's a frown. everyone should know that term]

Law enforcement officials.

[neverplays]

Oh. Yeah, my dad was a cop, but they were just cops.

[whatialways_do]

[brow furrows]

But that's what a LEO is.

[neverplays]

Oh. I guess we just call them different things.

[whatialways_do]

I guess.

[neverplays]

C'mon, let's forget about cops and play!

[whatialways_do]

[grins at that, before nodding]

Okay.

[and with that, she'll dive back under the balls]