A lot of worlds have playgrounds. The apparatus is always a little different to account for whatever species mainly inhabits the world, but there is one consistency usually there. Slides. Swirly slides, half-frozen straight slides, slides with rectangular chutes, other chutes shaped triangularly with rounded edges, slick rubbery sloped slides, all manner of distances between the slides’ exits and the playgrounds’ grounds.

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  Kaia made a point to try them all, in both her fox form and her natural blue-skinned redhaired yellow-eyed bipedal default. Her favorites were the slipperiest. The ones that opened out into sand, which crunched in colder climates.