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WHAT IN PERSON I GUESS
WHERE The Park
WHEN THIS IS DAY 10 BECAUSE I SAY SO BUT TIME IS IRRELEVANT SO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT

[ The sun is shining and the birds are chirping and you can tell that summer is coming! In fact it's the perfect temperature for a picnic. Who doesn't love picnics? The citizens of Quiet Mounds have in fact also had similar ideas.

You may find yourself drawn to the park. Which is decked out for a picnic even. There's a buffet of food -- hot dogs, chips, so forth and so on. And then a series of blankets strewn about for you to take your food to. Plastic SOLO cups, 2-liters of off-brand sodas and some really really really bad lite beer if people are into that.

Maybe you just enjoy yourself, sounds fun, right? Maybe you discover that you like vegetarian hot dogs! Maybe you like real sausage. Maybe you sit down on a blanket with someone else and find that you are physically incapable of leaving -- well, until a secret is shared.

If you need a hint about how to leave your blanket, there may be an 'instruction guide to making friends' pamphlet tucked inside the folds of soft, perfect to sit on, picnic blanket. But if you just like floundering. . . well, flounder away. ]

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[mindinthegittern]

Please stomp it with just as much aplomb, if it does.

[abardacttofollow]

I'll certainly try!

Medren, this is all okay, right?

[mindinthegittern]

Am I the arbiter of justice, now? I mean, I think it's fine. Weird, but fine.

[abardacttofollow]

You're someone whose opinion I trust very much.

[mindinthegittern]

Well, I do think it's okay.

[abardacttofollow]

I'm happy?

[mindinthegittern]

You're allowed to be happy. I officially give you permission.

[abardacttofollow]

Well, that's a weight off.

[mindinthegittern]

You're welcome~

[abardacttofollow]

I appreciate you.

[mindinthegittern]

Luckily, since you're stuck with me.

[abardacttofollow]

You say that as if it's not the other way around.

[mindinthegittern]

I don't know... I expect I'll be seeing less of you for awhile...

[abardacttofollow]

I've wondered, but does this make me your uncle through ...well, not marriage, but...

[mindinthegittern]

[loudly]

Nope.

[abardacttofollow]

Well, if you think about it...?

[mindinthegittern]

I'd rather not!

[abardacttofollow]

[laughs] It'd be really strange.

[mindinthegittern]

You were my near-brother long before you were my near uncle-by-marriage, thank you so very much, I call dibs on keeping the longer-standing family tie.

[abardacttofollow]

[goes wide-eyed and quite redfaced] Oh...

[mindinthegittern]

[reaching over to tug his hair]

Don't look so shocked.

[abardacttofollow]

Well, it's not as if I've had any family...!

[mindinthegittern]

Secretly, it's been this way all along.

[abardacttofollow]

Well, other than my having considered trying to seduce you, it's been the same for me.

[mindinthegittern]

It's a good thing I'm not shaych! Imagine if I'd ended up feeling a rival to my Uncle Van. My poor ego.