"My HAT!" exclaims the tiny winged lion.

"There are lots more hats where that came from! Join us!" exhorts a little human-looking girl.

It eats hers, next, and starts heading for the treasure.

"Why won't it be a pirate?" wails the girl who is spearheading the recruitment effort.

"It's DEAF," says a little centaur. "We have to be LOUDER."

"COME BE A PIRATE," yell all the children, some with variations.

Little kids are so cute sometimes. She allows this to work: the kaiju tilts inquisitively at them, returns the hats, and puts on one of its own.

The kids whoop and enlist the kaiju in their improvisational piratical schemes!

She hangs out and pilots the cartoon kaiju for a few hours; it takes up too much of her attention for her to try anything else really fancy.

Eventually the children wind up riding it.

She conveys them around the park very carefully. Maybe with a little more practice she could make it more fun but she hasn't actually done this before.

They think it's moderately cool but move on after a minute. They aren't pirates anymore, they're safari explorers.

She clears up the cartoons; this was fun, but she's done for now. She does linger for a minute in case any of the kids want to talk to her before she goes.

"Hey! My sword!" cries the satyr.

- sorry, kid, here's another one. It'll only last until the end of the day, though.

"Like Cinderella's pumpkin," he says.

Yep! But she can make him another one if she sees him again, no problem.

"Okay!"

Enjoy it!

Next - hm. She doesn't really want to go back to the park, maybe she'll go hang out by the restaurants for a while.

There they are. People are eating at them, some at tables "outside" - these are more common in the Avalon because it means that different eateries can overlap more in footprint.

Is anybody doing anything interesting that she might wander over and ask about?

Mostly just talking and eating. In one case a little girl has a car she is rolling back and forth on the arm of her chair while she ignores her burger.

She'll set up camp at her own table, then. She has a book to read but she also sets up an elaborate marble-run-slash-kinetic-sculpture that goes for a few minutes every time she drops a marble into it, which she does every couple pages.

Girl with car sneaks over and places her car in the marble run about halfway down.

The car gets stuck, until Dusk looks up and notices the problem, at which point the run adjusts to unstick it. It takes a few more adjustments, including one to flip it over when it lands on its roof, but the car makes it the rest of the way down.

The little girl watches this all very seriously and then puts it up again.

It doesn't get stuck, this time, and a few new bits appear on the track ahead of it as it goes - one that plays a little xylophone tune when the car goes over it, one that waves a series of tiny flags, one that releases a marble into a new, simpler track.

This is enthralling.