II A For those few afternoon hours her mum can spare to sit out on High Street, Nel is there with her and keeping an eye on her only younger sibling. Those individuals that cross the street to avoid the stand instead have to face a pair of cute children, one of whom has a mess of long, wavy red hair barely contained in a ponytail and a clipboard ready for signatures. Standing up on a bench to make up for her stunted stature, she speaks to passersby while her sibling is in charge of handing out stickers for those that sign the paper while seated next to her. Nel had raided her own sticker collection to help, and anyone that signs has their choice of quite an array of adornments to wear on their shirt for the day as a mark of their support. She even brought the sparkly stickers! Who can say no to sparkly unicorns?
Holding up a pen tipped with dyed feathers and wiggling it beside her own face, she’ll call out to anyone that comes close enough to hear her, “Hallo! I bet you’re probably very busy, but if you could spare a few seconds to sign, you’ll save everyone in Moss Manor a lot of time! They’re talking about closing our post, and we want them to know how much we appreciate having their service close by instead of needing the bus to send a letter or a bill. Oh, and if you sign, you can have one of these stickers! They’re all very lovely.”
Nel is content to stay on the bench and request this simple action, but anyone that makes a real show of trying to ignore them might very well be tailed after.
B By the time the protest on Saturday has started into the speeches, Nel is a little bored with the whole affair. She understands how important it is, and had plenty of fun helping make up the posters that went up on the streets to draw attention to the issue. So while she has the opportunity to look at other people paying attention elsewhere, she’ll take advantage of the time and pull out her sketchbook. Making life sketches of people on the go is still too hard for her, but trying to sketch people lingering in a crowd is manageable.
Anyone attending the protest might spot the redhead seated nearby looking at them or another person intently for several seconds before her hand moves on the paper in her lap to mark lines. The longer she’s allowed to work, the further she gets along in the sketch.
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A
For those few afternoon hours her mum can spare to sit out on High Street, Nel is there with her and keeping an eye on her only younger sibling. Those individuals that cross the street to avoid the stand instead have to face a pair of cute children, one of whom has a mess of long, wavy red hair barely contained in a ponytail and a clipboard ready for signatures. Standing up on a bench to make up for her stunted stature, she speaks to passersby while her sibling is in charge of handing out stickers for those that sign the paper while seated next to her. Nel had raided her own sticker collection to help, and anyone that signs has their choice of quite an array of adornments to wear on their shirt for the day as a mark of their support. She even brought the sparkly stickers! Who can say no to sparkly unicorns?
Holding up a pen tipped with dyed feathers and wiggling it beside her own face, she’ll call out to anyone that comes close enough to hear her, “Hallo! I bet you’re probably very busy, but if you could spare a few seconds to sign, you’ll save everyone in Moss Manor a lot of time! They’re talking about closing our post, and we want them to know how much we appreciate having their service close by instead of needing the bus to send a letter or a bill. Oh, and if you sign, you can have one of these stickers! They’re all very lovely.”
Nel is content to stay on the bench and request this simple action, but anyone that makes a real show of trying to ignore them might very well be tailed after.
B
By the time the protest on Saturday has started into the speeches, Nel is a little bored with the whole affair. She understands how important it is, and had plenty of fun helping make up the posters that went up on the streets to draw attention to the issue. So while she has the opportunity to look at other people paying attention elsewhere, she’ll take advantage of the time and pull out her sketchbook. Making life sketches of people on the go is still too hard for her, but trying to sketch people lingering in a crowd is manageable.
Anyone attending the protest might spot the redhead seated nearby looking at them or another person intently for several seconds before her hand moves on the paper in her lap to mark lines. The longer she’s allowed to work, the further she gets along in the sketch.