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The Leaves (4) : With the changing seasons, there are piles of leaves all around Destiny City. It’s a difficult job to try and keep up with them all, and sometimes the allure of these leaf piles is impossible to ignore. Who doesn’t want to relive the childish joys of their youth? And no one’s around to see, right? So why not jump into a pile of leaves? Oh–because, when you do, you jump through one pile and come out of another somewhere else across the city. The leaves all seem ordinary, but there’s a few odd seconds between when you jump into the leaves and when you jump out; it feels like falling, tumbling, somersaulting through the air. It’s not scary, just odd. You see walls of leaves–brown and orange and yellow and red–and they crunch magnificently. Overall, it doesn’t seem menacing, just a bit of trickster fun. If you try to jump in a pile of leaves again, you might wind up somewhere else entirely–or right back where you started.

With classes winding down and nothing else going on for the moment, it made tonight a night to walk about and explore this city. After making sure, for the fifth time since that last weird glitch, that her gps was behaving, Chillingham shot off a text to her number one best alibi and foodie friend.



With that sent, she then remembered to add hurry up and add the address of the park she was going towards, which she had seen surrounded in trees that were primed and ready to drop all their leaves with the weather changing.

It wasn't too far as she hurried that way, but she was wondering if it might be a good idea to get a scooter or something instead of walking or taking the bus. She'd have to bug Freddy about it, then mum too. Maybe after the semester ended, she could show off her "good" grades and convince them it was for getting to extracurriculars.

The idea of it and how much faster she could pop to and from concerts, even the diner, or any drive-in movie, filled her head and the time as the minutes and blocks passed her by. With any luck, she would be right about the leaves.

"Oi! Hii!" It took a second to see Monch behind the clouds of sugary goodness, but already she was happy to have her friend out tonight. It was going to be awesome.

With a wide smile at the offered cotton candy and at the perfect alibi for Freddy, she then took a chomp out of the cloud. It was tooth-rottingly sweet, not that she minded, but she could hear her brother telling her it was too late to eat stuff like that.

"Oh?!" Following Monch along, she watched and mimicked things. Clapping was a little hard while holding the cotton candy, but it was fun, and she was excited to learn more of the cha-cha slide.

The leaves that were scattered all over the ground made some of the sliding steps a bit slidy-er, but in her opinion, that was making it more fun.

"One hop this time!" Calling out as she laughed alongside her friend. This was loads more fun than staying home with Freddy and working on homework.

She'd been laughing when the leaves swirled around and everything felt like it was tumbling. But then she blinked and looked back at Monch before swirling around on the spot to see that they were someone completely different.

"Whoah... was... was that weird, spooky magic?" Looking down at the leaves that were sticking out of her shoes before pulling one out of her hair, everything looked normal enough.

"Are you okay?" Stepping through the leaves carefully, everything looked fine, so maybe this wasn't bad magic? There was still a bit of a smile left on her face as her thoughts leaned towards the more optimistic route.

"Yesss! Let's go!" Following suit and nomming another chunk of sweet, glorious sugar cloud, Chilly was more than ready to see where they'd pop out next.

Hurrying along, she nodded and leapt into the pile, remembering this time to close her eyes just in case the leaves smacked her in the face this time.

More and more tumbling, making her feel like she was rolling down the hill back home in Leeds. "Amazing!"

Popping up with what was left of her cotton candy, she looked around for Monch as she realized this time they were by the college, honestly not far from where she usually played guitar outside some nights.

"WOW! So far! This is amazing!" And one hundred percent, the kind of awesome fun magic she wanted to deal with instead of all the gross skeleton magic that she had.

Clapping her hands again as the music continued, she figured she was getting the hang of things.

Again and again, they popped out all over the city, each time with the vaguest idea of how far they actually were from the starting point of the evening.

And she was really about seeing how many new places they could see as she finished off her cotton candy within the last two jumps. The sugar was fueling the excitement, but when they popped out, somewhere not fun, she looked over at Monch while still laughing along.

While the idea of being in a spooky place like this might have been fine before, she didn't exactly like it at all now that she'd been stuck cleaning up all the bones and labware on her wonder.

Looking for another pile to jump in, before things set in too much, she hopped forward and waited to see where they'd go next. But this time, the leaves just scattered upwards before floating back down. "Aw..... cripes."

Looking back at Monch, she still smiled and jived along with the music as it started to fade into a song that felt fitting too.

They did the mash~ It was a graveyard smash~