Custody

[P. J. UMBERMAN]

It had been eons since PJ had really played on a playground. Well, at least while he was using the equipment as intended. He had an odd habit of climbing things, as if he had a natural compulsion to be higher up. It may have contributed to the slight fear of his to be out of shape. He could feel his body and see the bare outlines of it when copying textures, but what did he look like in the flesh? Not like he would ever know, but he desired to be in the best shape possible. In saying this, it wasn't rare for PJ to be upside-down on the outer rim of the monkey bars doing sit-ups for ridiculous amounts of repetitions. But the seesaw? When was the last time he was on one of these things? Probably in his elementary school days during his first few years at Circo. Would he break the thing if he got on? He hoped not.

"Gosh, it's been so long since I've played with someone here. You might want to hang on real tight! I don't want you to fly off when I sit down." He warned her with a lighthearted chuckle. On any case, PJ took off his floating backpack and placed it on the ground next to him to get rid of extra weight. To anybody else now, he was indistinguishable. He sat down on the seesaw carefully, nearly falling over as he instantly plummeted to the ground. It was uncomfortable with how large he was in comparison to the equipment, but he had to make sure Raisa was having fun.

"Woah! Better think of something quick princess!" PJ was quite creative, so could he help her in thinking of something? What was built well-enough to sit down and hold on to something? Hm... "What about a baby panda or something? Or maybe a baby Pegasus? Those are kind enough, and weight just enough to let you sink." Were these suggestions good? Probably not, but he really didn't want her to think of something like a chimpanzee. Those were highly dangerous, and PJ really didn't feel like getting his non-existent face ripped off today.

[RAISA GARCES]

She wouldn't even remember his first suggestion. "A baby Pegasus?" It was a little scary to be way up high, and only her power was going to get her down safely, but she started laughing hard. "They don't have hands! It- It'd fall off and," She laughed a little harder, hiding her face. It was a sad thought, something with thin legs like that easily broke them, but children didn't normally think about that. She saw the silliness in it, a little horse trying so hard to stay up on the see-saw before falling. Besides, it couldn't get too hurt, right? The little thing did have wings.

"I'm not special enough for one anyway." Only god-children were allowed to have one, she had seen the movie. Was he trying to make her break the rule? She needed to think about something else though, before she accidentally made a pegasus anyway. What would help her play right? PJ wasn't super heavy, she'd seen people with huge muscles and stuff from powers and was honestly scared of being squished, but he was much heavier than her. What would balance it out? Another kid playing with them would balance them nicely but she'd never tried to do a person before.

And people were scary. She never knew what they were going to do next.

So she had to do an animal, something that would stay with her and be able to stay up. Something that wouldn't get all mad and destroy anything. She still didn't know how to control the things she brought to life.

What if... What if she made a little baby dragon? Big dragons were scary, but little ones weren't. Little ones could be tamed and rode when they grew up. She wanted to ride a dragon. And they had such pretty scales. She wanted a dragon who's scales shifted in the light, like a rainbow... And so her mind created it. Ever so slowly her side began to sink, her clothes in front of her pressed strangely as if something was curled up around the handle in front of her. The soft hiss of scales, a strange airy sound as the dragon's wings shifted, the animal had come to life.

But she had made it a friendly dragon. While her eyes were strangely unfocused she seemed to see just fine. She looked to the air in front of her, the skin of her palm pressed against something most couldn't see. A perfect little dragon curled up before her, it's scales creating pale rainbows in what little light was left. "Yay... you get to play with us... Just sit still, please? You won't get hurt, promise. It's fun."