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Just relaxing

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Even immortals need to unwind a little from all the living and not dying.  I may be fast healing, but as Naomi had said several times since adapting to my differences, I need to chill.
So after her pleading and demands, I've decided to go to a local park, have an ice cream and just sit somewhere.  Whoo, fun.

After buying an ice cream from the shops, my favourite at that - a triple chocolate scoop with two flakes, sprinkles, hot chocolate sauce and some crushed nuts.  I can't gain weight what with being immortal and all that.
Now then, somewhere to sit while I wolf down my chocolate overload of a treat.

Here we go, a nice park bench overlooking a lake, there's an old tree standing over the bench and shades it quite well from the glare of the sun, not that the sun can bother me too much other than the sun glare.
Not fussing over it like some do, I sit down and slowly lick my ice cream, savouring the rich, sweet flavour on my tongue, the coldness of the ice cream making my taste buds tingle.  As my lips catch some of the ice cream, the skin tingles in response from the temperture of the treat and I sigh with contentment, bliss.
Although I can't feel the actual temperture of the treat, but I can imagine it which is just as workable.

My eyes take in the surroundings as I indulge myself of my treat.  The grass is a mix of greens, browns and yellows, the brown and yellows mostly in areas where the grass is dying or dead.  I can see the brown soil underneath in some places.
There are areas of flowers planted around in intervals around the park, many different colours ranging from standards like white and red to more lively colours like sharp oranges and sudden pinks.  So many beautiful flowers, so much beauty for the eye to see.

The lake is mostly green and brown, whoever said water was blue clearly doesn't live in the real world.  There are some ducks and a couple of swans lazily swimming on the top of the lake, which is calm and glistening in the sun.  It's a mild day, not too hot and not too cold, just right.
I can hear children playing nearby, their cries of delight and innocence in the air as they play whatever games they are playing.  Their mothers or babysitters are likely sitting nearby, watching over them while chatting about whatever topic they have to chat about.

As I finish my treat, I can smell the scent of the lake and the flowers, I can smell the earth as well.  Even the air itself has a scent of a mild day, the kind of scent that calms and sooths.  Even the grass has a scent if you focus enough.
I listen to the birds above chirping away to one another, going about as nature has intended for them.  It makes me think of some silly joke, birds chirping, cat hunting, birds pulling out guns and opening fire at the cat.  Silly, yes, but I like the image and I chuckle softly to myself as I picture what one bird says "Just try it kitty!" as it pulls out a gun, making the cat dance as bullets hit the ground at it's paws.

After finishing my treat, I inhale softly and exhale, slowing my pulse to an almost meditive state.  As I do so, I can feel my body relax and the air itself even seems to feel different to me.  I feel at peace.
As I take in everything around me, I find myself imagining a scenario where I might be doing this if things hadn't gone the way they had.  I would be a normal mortal, just relaxing on a mild day in a peaceful park.  Although normal itself is hard to define.

There's a bleeping sound in my daydream...no, wait, it's my mobile.  I answer it after taking it from my pocket and flipping it open in one quick move.
"Aye?"  I ask.
"Come see this"  Naomi Watt, a friend of me and my daughter, replies at the other end.
"See what?"
"Just come see"  She hangs up and I sigh, at least it was nice while it lasted.  Back to reality.  Maybe I'll get to do this again another day.
A modified short story I had submitted into a contest in SL, I didn't win though, some anime fan fiction did.

Anyway here's the modified version.

This is set before a short scene in Inconsistent Blame - [link]
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