#bergen_county

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The lake seems to have missed people!

It glistens with the warmth of a Jersey summer, which despite what you will hear, is just as good as a new york summer

But that's not where we're focusing right now...

meanwhile.. at the apartments

Gerd walks up the steps with Dagmar "Thanks for patrolling with me, Dagmar... and giving me an excuse to drop off this food"

Gerd's back pack is stuffed to the gills with food and supplies

"Satyr on the roof, huh? Must be a new tradition..."

"Sounds like a musical." SHe says and starts to move quietly

Dag follows, less quietly

And sure enough as the step up... the rustle of wings and... Dagmar sees her over the slightly shorter Gerd's shoulder. Feathered wings and off she goes

Age is hard to determine exactly, she she looks in her late teens. This satyr

"We brought food, yo!"

"And we didn't fuck with it. Big blue word of honor."

Gerd calls out "We're good guys..err gals... "

"I say leave it. She can take it or not."

The figure swoops around and lands on the far corner of the garden area , as far away as she can be without leaving this roof again and stairs at the tall wilders

"Hey. I'm Dag, this is Gerd."

"We ain't gonna narc on you, but we brought food."

Dirty and bedraggled, the girl stares, then says "What the fuck are you?" She says

Gerd says "She just told you. This is Dagmar. I'm Gerd. It's cool. You looked down and we thought we'd help"

Brow-furrow. "Have you been doin' this on your own?"

"Doing what? Going bonkers? Insane? YEah... I guess it's just you me and the mad hatter..." She says "I can't go near people... the grays sap it out of me.. it's like fucking wrong in the air about them... sometimes I see shit..crazy shit... so you two? I figure you're just ... you know, a sign further I'm going deeper in the rabbit hole"

"No. Okay, so first, you aren't crazy. I was a regular teenager two years back, until everything exploded and went weird."

"Let me guess - nobody else sees the hooves and horns? The greys are cold, they hurt. Sometimes, you remember stuff you shouldn't. Sometimes, your own memory gets fuzzy."

The young woman says nothing but her eyes widen showing that Dagmar's dead on.

Gerd says "I see them too"

"Man, doing this alone had to have been fucking scary as hell. We're supposed to rescue each other, help each other out."

"Is this hell?" The girl asks "I saw the angel."

"Hell?" Gerd says "No, that was Sparrow"

Blink. "Hell? No, but, like, New jersey is arguably close.."

She laughs at that

"How long you been living on the edges?"

The girl closes her eyes "Uhm..I think..like, since May 5th?"

Gerd blinks "you've been on your own for a month?"

"I guess..." SHe says

"Well, you aren't alone anymore."

"I'm sure you've seen the other folks here with goat legs - there's what, five of them?"

"What others?" A confused look

"Etsie, the twins, Lyron, and Piper just moved in..."

"Below, in the apartments. Part of why this place doesn't feel so grey."

The woman shakes her head "I just .. it was warmer.. in both senses of the word. Nobody came up here until she did" A look at Gerd "And.. Sparrow." The girl admits "I swear... Sparrow messed me up. I almost flew into the fucking building she was so .. no pretty isn't the right word. Perfection. That's the word."

"Yeah, she's a sidhe. They can be a lot."

"She's a sidhe, you're a satyr, Gerd and I are trolls."

"I know she's a she, hence part of the attraction" the satyress says

"We all are... well, we're what's called changelings. Mythic souls in human bodies."

A laugh. "Oh, that too. But I am not gonna risk my girlfriend's wrath by sayin' that."

Gerd says "It's a Celtic thang.. S-i-d-h-e."

"Uhg, yeah, welsh."

"So... I