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(rolling for Anming/Minkowski)

Kathryn winced as the cat hissed at her before she managed to place it on the ground. She watched the creature scramble underneath the table before she turned her attention back to the bright object in the sky. It was getting nearer and nearer. Kat rounded the table and quickly picked up the cash box from the beverage table. She was worried. The table had been under her watch and she didn't want to lose any profits for the DCAC.

As Kat clutched the box to her chest she began to look around for Regina. The cash would be safer with her rather than to be left unattended. It was at that moment that the meteor made it's impact. The vibrations from the impact shot through Kathryn's feet and made the girl stumble. The cash box slipped from her grip and fell to the ground opening on contact. "Oh s**t."

Kathryn surveyed the ground in the dark and groaned. How could she explain this? Grabbing what she could see Kat pushed everything back into the box and closed the latch before standing straighter. Hopefully she didn't miss anything. Kat walked slowly through the crowd towards the area that she was hearing Regina's voice. The mishap needed to be brought into the open. Kat bumped into one of the telescopes and knocked it over but continued on her path. She neared Regina's position and looked at the forested region beyond. The lure to find the meteorite was strong but Kat had another mission now. "Regina?"

Connor smiled as his black-headed companion joined him on the grass. What better company than his best gal-friend. They sat for a few moments in silence, just watching the stars. While Hayden was a tad apathetic towards it all, Connor actually secretly still believe in this kind of stuff. After a while, he grabbed her waist, scooting her close enough to touch, then put his hands back on his lap.

"Didn't peg you for a starwatcher," he said with a grin, glancing back out at the crashed meteor. He flinched a little from the nudge, but he said, "Look's like something's happening out there." Something exciting.

He rubbed the back of his neck, leaning back on the other hand. "I know this sounds cheesy, but what did you wish for?" Lots of people were talking about the crashed meteor, but Connor didn't really pay attention. He could care less about some great rock hitting the Earth. He was still alive, so how much less could he care?

Lily shook her head at Alex, "who knows maybe he's not maybe he was just trying to get me out of the car, although it didn't really work." She grinned, eyes bright, "still we have to try and see if we can get him to do it again. Maybe get it one tape."

She giggled at Alex's contradicting hopes, "I don't think you can wish for you dog to be normal and not to have an interest in gardening. Dogs love to dig, it like sort of what they do, although its more anti-gardening until you get them trained. Still they will probably still do it from time to time."

She nodded at the comment about names to faces following Alex to the blankets to get settled in. She managed to get settled in time to see a head of blonde unruly hair pointing and squealing making her look up.

"Oh," was all she managed before looking to Alex, "look at that thing." She looked in awe even if she had seen and experience more awe inspiring things.

The meteor hit, Lily felt the vibrations, making her have to grab hold of a slightly panicked Eamon, who tried to bolt.

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Eliza was the head of unruly blonde hair that was pointing excitedly and squealing, or at least that how some would describe her enthusiasm. "Look look, it getting close. This is so cool," she exclaimed wanting be closer to the action despite the possible danger.

Eliza grinned feeling the vibration of the meteor hitting the earth and her excitement only increase. She couldn't say much other that the night was so so cool. She wanted to find the thing, but of course that seemed like it definitely wasn't going to happen.

[Roll for Gigi]
Gigi peered out into the darkness at the sound of her name. He was hard to see after staring at the bright lights, but the ‘miss’ was a bit of a giveaway, as was the long dark hair.

”Ariaaaan!” An enthusiastically waving arm shot up from the little blanket tent, disrupting other stargazers as she immediately beckoned her friend over. “Isn’t it awesome? Here-” she shook off the picnic rug in a tangle of pigtails and smoothed it back onto the ground so Arian could join her if he wanted.

When she looked back to the sky, the meteor was very close indeed, like a 3-D movie, pulling scare tactics on the audience. But there was no screen to this show. The teen found herself inching backwards on the newly-spread rug, though obviously it was perfectly safe. The city council wouldn’t have allowed a whole picnic thing if it wasn’t *safe*. She shot another glance at Arian to see if he was worried.

Oh, it was breaking up. Oh, it was… so close! The impact startled her almost to her feet.

“Omigod. Was that supposed to happen?”


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In his anxiousness to find a seat for the meteor display, it seemed Tomlin had missed a vital part of the proceedings – people brought dogs to parks. Dogs that would, through no malice or ulterior motive (or any higher intelligence) chase a cat like him. The sudden barking was some way off, and he tensed, looking for the best out. Back onto the table still seemed like a good bet, though the women in charge were still nearby. Fortunately, it quickly became apparent that the pup was both leashed and well-attended. The cat’s sharp eyes noted the blond head, but ultimately there was too great a distance to go investigate, too many picnickers, and perhaps most importantly now he was paying attention, other dogs about.

He paced beneath the table, wary, but it seemed no-one was intent to drag him out, and the dogs remained under control. Above, the bright meteor was still falling in full splendour, pieces breaking off. For some reason, the beautiful sight suddenly made him uneasy.

Despite the dangers of being seen, the guardian cat slunk out from beneath the tables, between human legs, his furry head turned up, gaze not wavering from the shattering meteor above them. There was something more to it than rock and gas and fire. He felt it but couldn’t name it, and the short ginger fur along his back ruffled up in concern.

“How have you been?” Luckily for Arian the girl under blanket was his curly-haired friend from school thus sparing the dark-haired teen the sort horrendously awkward embarrassment that went hand in hand with mistaking total strangers for someone familiar.

At Gigi’s offer to share her picnic rug, he called out “Just a second” and took a few moments to retrieve the blanket and the remaining brownies before spreading it out next to her blanket. As he sat down he responded to her earlier statement “It looked almost magical with them...” voice trailing off as he looked up to see one of the meteor’s breaking up before feeling the vibration in the ground as it made impact. Arian couldn’t help let a surprised “Wow” quietly escaping his lips, staring at Gigi before adding “No I don’t um think so.” Meteors hitting the ground was kind of something that happened in films or stories – not real life.

"No, if he were trying that it filed. Though I'm sure it was worth it really, considering you seemed to have enjoyed your time back in the car." Shaking his head, a smile in place. "Or on video, you could of course post it up on youtube, like how many other people do." He added with a bit of a shrug. "It might even get a lot of views." Though with how many similar videos were up on the site it may not.

"That would depend on ones definition of gardening. Making holes doesn't count, unless it's followed by planting a plant or seeds and caring for them. I have to hope he doesn't decide to anti-garden by digging up plants." Though thankfully most of his plants were in the green house, which he could keep Cadha out of it the pup proved to be an anti-gardener.

"I don't want the work I've already started putting into the garden in the backyard being dug up. I have to go plant shopping as soon as the nursery's start getting plants, I think I have an idea of what I want to do with the flowers beds I've put down. He'd already gone to work, once he'd moved in, on cutting up a design for flower beds. he just needed to wait for spring to fill them with flowers.

Glancing up, his thoughts pulled away from where they'd been wandering. "It's close...I think something is wrong." He said suddenly worried and yet unsurprised by this turn of things. "It's going to impact..." He whispered sure of his words. And then it did and the vibration went up his body, making him want to run off toward where it had landed.

"I think we should get the dogs in the car and come back and see what's going on. But just in case...for the dogs." Cadha didn't seem as affected as Eamon, though it could be that he had Cadha in his arms tightly held.