[Action] OTA
[Rapunzel's sitting outside on a bench near the Joe West building, hair loose but she's sectioned some of it out and is slowly braiding it, eyes locked on her work and the deliberate motion of her hands. The note from her mother is sitting in her lap.]
[It's hard for her to accept that so many people left because of the Black Mist. Not that they were "taken" as she's heard is possible, but just... left. Miss Lieutenant, Mr. Milo, that Kuzco person... her mother... It's strange. It feels like there's a weight in her heart that she can't do anything about, an ache that won't be relieved. She can understand the reasons they all had, that they gave her. But that didn't make it any easier to simply accept.]
[Her eyes shift slightly to look at the note. It's short and simple, ended with a tender I love you as her mother always reminded her. Somewhere in her mind - in her heart - she thinks that this is maybe a good thing. That it means her mother trusts her to take care of herself at last, that she can stay here in the school with her new friends - and with her mother's permission! So that's good.]
[...Right?]
[She feels Pascal press himself soothingly against her neck and she glances at him with a tiny smile.]
It's all right, Pascal... [Then she looks back at her braiding with a sigh] It's all right...
[It's hard for her to accept that so many people left because of the Black Mist. Not that they were "taken" as she's heard is possible, but just... left. Miss Lieutenant, Mr. Milo, that Kuzco person... her mother... It's strange. It feels like there's a weight in her heart that she can't do anything about, an ache that won't be relieved. She can understand the reasons they all had, that they gave her. But that didn't make it any easier to simply accept.]
[Her eyes shift slightly to look at the note. It's short and simple, ended with a tender I love you as her mother always reminded her. Somewhere in her mind - in her heart - she thinks that this is maybe a good thing. That it means her mother trusts her to take care of herself at last, that she can stay here in the school with her new friends - and with her mother's permission! So that's good.]
[...Right?]
[She feels Pascal press himself soothingly against her neck and she glances at him with a tiny smile.]
It's all right, Pascal... [Then she looks back at her braiding with a sigh] It's all right...