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Everyone had surprises, didn't they? Chin tossed an impressed look at Len, then grinned, noticing the smile. Deimos had mentioned something about alignments before - it might be the same thing. Still, she didn't think she'd ever get used to it.

"Same here." Making a few calculations on her fingers, she laughed. "We know...I think...nine people?" She was struck by how pathetic it sounded when actually put into numbers.

That was all she had time to say. The toddler's angry shouts were cut off by the sight of the plastic spinning inches past his head to soar off to the other end of the playground. The feeling the magic gave him was an unpleasant shock. Sense went straight out the window at that feeling - the anger was back in full force and more. A push with his hind feet shoved him into space, claws spread for the fall, not a single thought of missing Len and going splat on the ground in his head.

In fact, he'd rather splat than miss.

What the -- He JUMPED! Seeing her "baby" about to suicide, Chin was certain she screamed, and the words a person could make out were highly child-innappropriate. She crashed right into Len on the way to the rescue and didn't notice. That was where he should end up. Or else nobody was going to be there to catch him. He jumped! Sabriel, you idiot!

Not gentle at all. The wind hurt, gusting up between his sensitive paws. It slapped his own tails against him once or twice. Sabriel pressed his ears flat and bore it with gritted teeth, and when it dumped him into the snow, huddled up in a battered lump of fur.

"You idiot." Chin whispered aloud. She was shaking. "Thank you so much, Len." When her legs worked again, she lifted the toddler up - one of those rare times where he didn't care at all, only buried his nose in her shoulder and rumbled, trembling all over. If she had a guess, it wasn't from being scared.

Turning back to Lenore, she managed a weak smile. "I-I think we'd better get back. M'sorry about all this. I think peace and quiet left town a long time ago." Calling up strength from somewhere, she added a bit less contritely, "And you can bet he'll wish he'd never been born, once I'm through with him. We'll see you later?"

As if Lenore ever wanted to see either of them again after this. Picnic? Yup. Not likely.

Green hummed quietly to her self as she entered the playground, pushing the stroller that held Rose ahead of her. So far it had been an incredibly long, tiring day and the young, blonde woman wanted nothing more than to put her feet up and relax.

The bunny child nibbled on the head of the kangaroo plushe she'd grown so terribly fond of, as her little mind replayed the events of the day. Her eyes swept across the playground, in search of somebody to play with.

Green was too tired to be startled by the girl's sudden appearance. They were in a playground, after all, and children did tend to spend much of their time in playgrounds.

She smiled sleepily at the girl and introduced them, "I'm Green and this here, is Rose."

She gestured to the bunny child who was currently beaming up at Lenore, pleased to see a new face. The kangaroo plushie was momentarily forgotten at her side, and the baby reached out towards the older girl with impatient arms.

Rose giggled and waved back at the girl with a chubby hand. Her ears twitched against the side of her head and mumbling something incoherent, Rose shoved one of them in her mouth and nibbled on the end.

"Nice to meet you to," Green nodded and then yawned in response to Lenore's question, "We are new, yes. We spent the enter day exploring the grounds. I'm very much exhausted."

She sighed and impatiently plucked the baby's ear from inside her mouth. Annoyed, Rose peered up at Green and then pointedly stuffed the tips of both ears into her mouth.

Green studied the mountains and the forest with stunned eyes. They'd appeared over a period of months? Really, now, that seemed incredibly unlikely.

But, she'd been a witness to stranger things.

Wondering if Lenore might have an explanation for the sudden growth spurt she asked, "Do you know what happened?"

"A tour would be wonderful," she grinned at the girl and then began to count the various members of her family in her head.

"There's... let me see... Nyx, y'hm and Marie and Eve... So, including Rose and me... that's five."

Rose wasn't at all bothered by the fact that she couldn't partake in the conversation. The baby gurgled happily and rediscovered the kangaroo plushie she'd previously tossed aside. She nibbled on its tail while she watched and listened to her mother speak with the new girl.

A couple of seconds? Impossible! Green gaped at Lenore, completely awestruck. Usually, it took thousands of years for mountains and forests to grow. If the girl was speaking the truth, which Green had no reason to doubt, something else; something amazing was at work here.

She took a few more minutes to study the area, taking it all in and registering it to memory. Perhaps a bit of research was in order.

"I'd love to meet your mother," she grinned.

"Well, they've all been good to her so far. But, I'm not sure how long that'll last," Green chuckled, "Sisters tend to fight a lot. When Rose grows... things might not be as peaceful."

Little bits and pieces of their conversation were begining to register with Rose. The mention of her sisters peaked her interest and the bunny child's ears twitched.

So far, she liked Nyx the best. It had been she who'd given her the kangaroo plushie, after all.