Houses houses bus stop church houses, signs for something called "the snake zone", apartments, swimming pool, gym associated with swimming pool, houses, elementary school with playground, park.

She peers curiously at the swimming pool, and rests for a little while in the gym, curled up in a changing stall. When she gets to the park, she decides that it's a good enough place to stop and sleep, behind a bush with a cartoon blanket over her for camouflage and a bit of protection.

Putting a cartoon blanket over herself diminishes her access to her unreality spell, though it doesn't nix it altogether.

That's fine. She doesn't need it for much while she's asleep anyway.

Nothing disturbs her sleep for the next few hours.

The sun rises in the morning.

She rolls over slightly and pulls the blanket up over her face, and sleeps on.

A soccer ball lands on her hip.

She jolts awake, silently, and lies there frozen in place for a moment before realizing where she is and that she should find out what's going on.

A soccer game is going on. A little boy is jogging in her direction.

Okay. Okay. She can do this. She dismisses the blanket and phases in to pick up the ball so she can hand it to him when he gets to her.

He's startled to see her. "Whoa! Magical girl!" he says, accepting the ball.

Yeah, she is. And she's a secret, okay? For important magical girl reasons.

"Okay, magical girl!" says the boy, and he runs off, kicking his ball in front of him back to his friends.

Okay, good, that probably won't be a disaster. She needs a better hiding place, though - anything she can plausibly get to without being seen?

In her immediate vicinity there are more shrubs, and some trees; the playground for the school; the school itself, buses pulling into its drive and disgorging children a bit older than the boy with the soccer ball; a bunch of houses, one of which has a shed she can see; a gas station; and beside the gas station an auto shop.

Even at a distance, the kids getting out of the busses are far enough over the amount of people she's used to to be a little overwhelming. She can't help staring, for a minute or so.

She's definitely not going that way, and she doesn't think she can get to the houses or anything without attracting attention. Up a tree is her best bet; time to find out if these wings are functional, as soon as it seems like nobody's watching.

Moth wings - nope. Doesn't work. She can flap them, but if she does it hard enough to get any lift they hurt.

That's fine, honestly, she's really not a flying type of person.

It takes another bit of thinking before it occurs to her to manifest a climbing net between the ground and the tree branch she wants to be on, like she's seen in playgrounds on TV. She tests it to make sure it'll hold before climbing up.

It holds fine. Now she's up a tree.

Not bad. Maybe she really can handle being out on her own.

She repeats the trick another few times, until she's satisfied with how hidden she is, and then puts a denser net between two branches and curls up on it to go back to sleep.

She and her hammock are undisturbed except by squirrels. The squirrels chitter at her and at one point throw a nut shell at her.

She's properly phased out, this time; the nut shell goes right through.

She's next woken by the sound of after-lunch recess at the school, but she feels reasonably rested, so that's fine. She sits for a bit, enjoying not having anywhere she needs to be or anything she needs to do, and then climbs down a few branches to check what's going on in the park.

Person sitting on park bench reading, mom with a baby in a stroller, picnic, Frisbee with a dog, that's all she can see from here.

If there's a search party lurking around looking for her, everyone's awfully calm about it; that's good enough for her. She returns to her nest and plays with cartoon constructs, trying to get a better feel for what she can do. Like: Can she make machines that work - something like a jack in the box? A helium balloon? A lamp? A TV? A tablet? Do things have to look like the things she wants them to work like in order to work? Can they make noise? (She's careful to check this very quietly.) How about cartoon physics bullshit, portable holes and invisibility paint and so on? Outright magic, an endless decanter of water or a wand that gives a squirrel a beak when she waves it at it? Can she put an electrical outlet on the tree and have it power cartoon things, if they don't work without being plugged in?

She can make a jack in the box and a cartoon balloon. Her lamp doesn't light; her TV and tablet don't work. They can make noise; whether they have to look like what they are depends on what she tries. She cannot currently do portable holes or invisibility paint or real water or a magic wand. The outlet in the tree will make her lamp work but doesn't help with the TV or tablet.