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Open RP -- Rukia skips rocks

Rukia didn't often go down to the river except when she needed to bathe, but today was an exception. The little shinigami was desperately bored, and she'd ultimately taken to skipping rocks on the water's surface, and watching the ducks scatter when one got too close (she actually tried not to aim for the ducks and for the most part she succeeded, but occasionally, one went astray).

What was frustrating was the way some rocks skipped gracefully across the water, some skipped one or two times and then stopped and some fell into the water with a plunk almost as soon as they left her hand. Rukia was sure there had to be a trick to it. She just wished she knew what...

((Anyone who wants to come talk to her, give her pointers, feed the ducks, etc., is welcome. :D))

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Lilly liked to walk along the river, because despite what anyone else may think, she does occasionally think about things, and liked a bit of nature to help her do it. Right now, she wasn't thinking about much beyond how weird it was that she used to be dead.

She was broken from her thoughts at the sound of a rock splashing into the water. When she looked, she was greeted by a small girl attempting, and failing, to skip rocks on the water.

Well, why not. I'm feeling charitable.

"You need to wrap your finger around it, like this." She said, picking up a rock. "With the flat side down." She demonstrated: index finger curled around the rock. "Then throw it sideways, in an arc," she pulled back, and threw it, watching the rock skip across the water.

Rukia turned at the sound of a female voice, jumping a little. The normally observant shinigami had been lost in her rock-skipping, and the voice that drew her back to reality startled her. The girl it belonged to looked normal and friendly enough, though, so Rukia gave her a small smile.

She watched intently as Lilly picked up a rock and tried to show her how to throw it.

"Like this?" she asked. She picked up a rock, wrapping her finger aroudn it, flat side down, as demonstrarted. But when she tried to throw it in an arc, she ended up hurling it high into the air.

It went sailing several feet before it landed in the water with a splash.

Lilly laughed softly at the resulting splash. "Not quite," she said picking up another stone. "Throw it lower, closer to the water. And make sure you throw it sidearm." She demonstrated by moving her arm in an arc, slower than she would if she were really going to throw it.

"And, when you do let go, snap your wrist, so the rock has some spin to it." Again she demonstrated the wrist movements.

"And that's all there is to it." She threw her second rock and counted out five skips before it sank.

"Throw it sidearm," Rukia murmured to herself out loud. That sounded simple enough, really. She made a few decent-but-not-great sidearm gestures without the rock, first, to make sure she had it. "Like that?" she asked Lilly. She wanted to do it right, this time, and she was going to do it right if it took all day! Now that someone had witnessed her doing it wrong, learning the correct way had become a point of honor.

She watched Lilly's rock go skipping before she gave a little, impressed, "Ah!"

Lilly nodded. "That's not too bad. You're still a bit too jerky, try doing it all in one smooth motion."

She laughed at Rukia's expression. "I've had lots of practice. You'll get it eventually."

((Let me know if this isn't a good place to interrupt.))

Una watched the two girls skipping rocks from a short distance away, smiling in amusement. She recognised the blonde from Logan's party (and it must be either Lilly or Veronica, from Logan's tale of woe); the smaller girl was a new face.

She strolled over, hands in pockets. "Hallo there. How's the rock-skipping conditions today?"

((It's fine with me if it's fine with Lilly-mun!))

"Oh!" said Rukia, nodding a little in comprehension when the other girl explained the proper way to go about throwing the rock. "Like this?" Her throw was better than before, although it still left room for improvement. This time, the rock skipped across the water four times before going under.

At the sound of Una's voice, Rukia turned to look in other woman's direction. "Hello," she returned the greeting. "They're all right. I'm kind of new at it... but I'm learning." Rukia smiled at Lilly.

((Works for me))

"Not bad!" Lilly said with a huge smile. "The record's something like 40 or 41*, but that's just crazy."

Una had one up on Lilly, as she had never even heard Una's name. Still, she smiled and waved. "They're pretty good." She laughed sarcastically, "it's always a beautiful day in Creepy-Ass-Fake-Disneyland, after all."
*((The current record is 51 skips (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07273/821782-85.stm), but it was 40 at the time of Lilly's death))

Una chuckled. "I don't know about you, but I'd do almost anything for it to rain just once." She picked up a rock and tossed it from hand to hand before sending it out across the surface of the water, where it skipped four times before sinking with a plunk. "Where are my manners? I'm Una Persson."

Encouraged by Lilly's smile, Rukia bounced a little. Upon being told the record was 40 skips, she frowned a little. It did sound pretty crazy. "I don't think I'll try to get that good," she said sensibly. "It seems like a lot of time and effort for something that's ultimately a pointless diversion."

Rukia's first instict was to bow when she introduced herself, but Una looked like a Westerner, so she curtsied instead. "Nice to meet you, Una," said Rukia. "I'm Rukia Kuchiki, and this is... this is..."

Only then did she realize she didn't know Lilly's name.

"Lilly Kane." Lilly skipped the curtsy, but she did offer a friendly smile.

"A pleasure to meet you both. Been needing to get out and meet more people here, really."

A quartet of ducks flew down and settled on the water a short distance away. "I suppose it would be rude of me to aim for the ducks, wouldn't it."

"A pleasure to meet you too." Rukia looked like her own feathers had been a little ruffled when Una suggested aiming for the ducks. "I would think so," she said. "Personally, I find them rather cute."

"And they are completely inoffensive," Una said. It hadn't really been a serious suggestion anyway. "Have either of you noticed if there's any other wildlife here?"

((AFK for ... well, a while. Feel free to chat between yourselves and just assume Una is listening interestedly. ^_^))

Lilly shook her head. "I've never seen anything. Not even, like, ants or flies. It's creepy."

"Neither have I," Rukia admitted. "The only animals I've ever seen have been the ducks." Briefly, she looked thoughtful. "Are ducks this plentiful at the real Disneyland? I've never been."

Edited 2007-12-16 00:32 (UTC)

Lilly nodded. "There are more than a few. But you don't really notice them as much, since there are squirrels and bugs, and other things, too."

Rukia nodded. "So why would the ducks stay and not the other animals?" she wondered. She had a thought, and started to say, "You know..." but finishing the sentence creeped her out, so she stopped.

"No, come on," Lilly said, never one to leave things alone. "What?"

Rukia knew Lilly had not been at the town meeting, although she wasn't sure if that was because Lilly wasn't interested in that sort of thing or because she hadn't been in the park at the time.

"There was a town meeting a month or so back" -- or so Rukia estimated anyway; keeping track of time in this place was difficult -- "and we were voting on whether or not we should have a police force. And one of the men arguing in favor of the police force, a tall blond guy named Leon, said that he suspected people who disappeared were actually turning into ducks."

Lilly made a face at that suggestion. A face that seemed to suggest extreme disbelief. "And how would this Leon guy have come to that conclusion anyway? What, did he, like, count all the ducks and all the people every day? And if he did, that then raises the question of why?"

"I'm not entirely sure," Rukia admitted ruefully. She found the theory a bit farfetched herself, and was pretty sure she didn't think that was really what was happening. (She would have been absolutely sure, but that she'd accepted since coming to Disneyland she couldn't be absolutely sure of anything regarding the mysterious inner workings of the park.)

"What I got out of it," she told Lilly, "was that he was investigating the disappearances in an attempt to find a way to get out, and in the process, somehow came to the conclusion that everyone who had vanished was turning into ducks."

Edited 2007-12-16 01:35 (UTC)

"So what you're saying," said Lilly, suppressing a laugh. "Is that every so often people just vanish?" She couldn't hold it back anymore and let out a small laugh. "And the current running theory is that they turn into ducks?"

Una had been listening to the conversation with interest and some amusement. She picked up a stone and slung it out across the water for seven skips.

"Considering we've got a Greek goddess walking around here, I wouldn't write anything off as completely impossible," she observed mildly.

"That," Rukia said to Lilly in a very dry tone of voice, "is precisely what I'm saying."

She turned to Una and nodded a little. "It's possible," she conceded. "Around here, anything's possible. The real question is, is it likely?"

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