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Characters: Rapunzel & Open
Location: Foyer, around Dollet
Rating: PG at most I'm guessing. Can edit later if needed.
Open/Closed/Finished: Open!
Summary: Rapunzel had asked on the BBS who wanted to come explore Dollet, and she had earlier arranged to do a field trip of sorts with Damian, intending to make the most of the break and new environment.

Rapunzel fully intended to make the most of this trip and the break from classes while they were at Dollet. She had barely traveled back home, only having been from the tower to Corona before arriving at the Garden. To find that the Garden could move like that was just amazing and the implications of seeing so much more of this world excited Rapunzel nearly beyond words. There was so much she could see and learn and do here. She had her hair braided and hanging down near her ankles so it wouldn't be as much of an issue at least, and was waiting at the foyer for those who had mentioned wanting to explore the town while they were here.

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"It...it wasn't so bad. I mean, Mother kept telling me how scary it was outside, but when I went out of the tower it wasn't so bad at all." Well, there were some less enjoyable parts, but overall Rapunzel had found that she believed Gothel was wrong about the world, that it was not all that dangerous and scary.

"As far as I am aware though, the flower was kind of unique."

"That's always how it happens, parents worry like crazy about their child leaving the nest, so to speak," she said, seeing nothing sinister about it all. "Like we're just going to curl up and die, or be attacked by a hundred monsters!"

"You think so?" Rapunzel guessed she wouldn't know, it was hard to imagine what other mothers might be like. They probably all were protective of their children to an extent, but possibly not quite to the extreme of keeping them locked away in towers. From what she had gathered, at least.

"Or ruffians and thugs? But the ones I met didn't seem so bad...."

"Well, around here we have to worry about the monsters more and thieves less, outside of town. As you may have noticed," she added with a smile. "Did they have cars where you came from?"

"Well, yes. But I haven't gone too far from Garden yet. They didn't have cars in Corona, no. But I've seen one. The big metal boxes with wheels that stop at those lights, right?" Rapunzel remembered seeing them and staring with Merlin at the new and strange sight.

"Those are cars, unless they're very large and long and are meant to carry a lot of people. Then they're buses. You're going to learn to drive one, you know," she said with a grin.

"I...I am? They're so....big! We didn't really have anything like that back home except perhaps carriages?" Rapunzel exclaimed, a little nervous at the idea but excited to learn something new all the same.

Maria nodded. "As soon as you take Defensive Driving. So long as you don't let yourself get intimidated by them, you'll do fine, though. Driving isn't anything to be afraid of."

Said the teenage girl quite accustomed to it existing...

"Right. I guess I'll see when I get to taking that class at some point." She still wasn't quite sure about it, but it did not seem she would have a choice if it was in fact a required class at the Garden.

She was a bit worried she'd scared Rapunzel just a little, and quickly tried to reassure her. "You'll do fine, don't worry. Driving is like any other physical skill. It's all a matter of practicing until you don't need to think about the intermediary steps any more."