067: (Not)Working Girl

[livingmyths]

I'm at the Library today even though technically I don't have to be here. But I do love it so and if it's a day I'm not scheduled to work then I don't feel guilty when I spend most of the time pulling books down and reading through them or going up on the roof to watch over the City and feel the wind in my hair.

That's where I am now. It's cold, but oh so beautiful, and I'm warm enough to get by and I have some food in my backpack so I can have a little roof picnic and lay back and watch the sky and pretend I'm like a bird and could go soaring against the clouds.

Though maybe I'm more like a mouse, liking to hide away in tiny spaces and watch without being seen, nibbling away at whatever I can find and maybe one day having a little mouse family of my own.

I just wish...

Oh, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, if anyone wants to come have a roof picnic with me I'm easy enough to find and I'd like the company!

Comments

[browning-baby.livejournal.com]

Why would anyone think you were a freak?

[livingmyths.livejournal.com]

Because I can hear what people are thinking.

I try not to, I really do! But sometimes... if they're loud or I get distracted or there are too many... I just know.

And if I concentrate I know what's going to happen sometimes - like right then, not far in the future.

But it scares people and they'd call me evil or a freak.

[browning-baby.livejournal.com]

... huh. Doesn't sound freakish to me. It isn't something I'd want to be able to do, I think, but... it sounds kind of neat.

If you think about it, everyone's weird in their own way.

[livingmyths.livejournal.com]

Here no one seems to mind. Back home... it was very different.

I guess they are. But I think everyone's just the way they should be. Sort of. Do you know what I mean?

[browning-baby.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of different people here with a lot of different gifts, and it's pretty well accepted. Back home, mine was accepted, but I think everyone with any kind of talent or gift finds themselves set aside from everyone else to a point. People are scared of what they don't understand.

I think I do. Things end up the way they should.

[livingmyths.livejournal.com]

I'm glad yours was accepted.

Yes! That's what I meant!

[browning-baby.livejournal.com]

My dad still has issues with it, I think, but that's old news.

I thought so. I think that's why I'm glad I could have time here. I've met amazing people.

[livingmyths.livejournal.com]

Mine too. I finally had to run away.

He was... thinking not right things about me.

I hope I can stay here forever.