Unwilling Trip
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1231
:: The kidnappers’ plans seem well thought-out. Toddlers, however, can wreck the most carefully planned events. Part of the Unfair Trades story arc in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::
:: Pay Special Attention: While the topic of stranger abduction is a hot button grooved into the psyche of everyone in the Western world over the age of five, the danger to the children is in the moment minimal, and in the long term, will not be swept under the rug. Play therapy, changes in routine and security, and so forth, can be incorporated without adding to the twins’ trauma, and will all help reduce the effects of the incident in different ways. ::
With nothing left in the balloons, Ladon tucked the wadded up strings and caps in his pants pocket as he pushed the stroller through the one-way gate into the wide sidewalk that faced what seemed to be an acre of paved, well-maintained parking lot. The two paths parallel to the sidewalk marked off a total of four rows of angled parking spaces, and lollipop trees, bland and commercially landscaped, sat in the islands at the ends of the rows. Each tree was protected by thick wrought iron grates, peeking through a round center less than a foot across, and several muddy tire tracks over the outer edge of the nearest grate revealed that some drivers were either impatient or inconsiderate.
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