Yup! There's a bunch of purples over there playing with a device that pumps water uphill and has a lot of buckets and strainers and things attached with strings to it for playing with the water, and there are greys and more purples clambering over the play structure thataway.

Play structure seems funner than weird device! Even if she misses swimming.

She runs over to the play structure.

She can be pretty easily absorbed in a game of PIRATES.

(All these children are about the same age.)

Pirates!!! She wants to be the SEA MONSTER!!!

(The age thing is weird! Maybe next time she's out of sight she should adjust her age - is she weirdly between ages or about right for the clusters?)

Gosh, a sea monster! That's a good idea! They will defeat her with swords! (She looks almost exactly right for this batch; she'd be too old for the next youngest cohort who look about two or three.)

Sea monsters can be defeated with swords! She will dramatically pretend to die when fake-cut.

And then she will return from the deeps and say that since the pirates beat her in combat she wishes to swear her tentacles to their service! Then they can plunder WITH the sea monster! 

(And oh good, changing her apparent age always feels weird.)

They accept her service! She can help them defeat other boats.

She is a very fast sea monster who can run between boats! 

(She remembers not to bring out the actual tentacles only by dint of long practice.)

Eventually all the kids are called home to dinner.

She says bye to all her pirate friends, then goes to eat snacks and nuts with her mom. 

Anna is now thoroughly exhausted. Does the park seem like a decent place to sleep? (She's not sure she trusts Bright not to wander off while she's sleeping, but maybe if she gets a tentacle around the kid and tells the kid to go to sleep too...)

It quiets down, and empties out, apart from a few people on evening strolls.

Then she'll wait for Bright to crash before suggesting they sleep for a little bit on this here out-of-the-way bench.

(Anything that looks stealable - namely their backpack - is arranged so it's apparently underneath Anna's head, though it actually is part of her body, and she's a light enough sleeper she should wake if anyone approaches.)

They get woken up at three in the morning by a grey.

"Sorry," Nausicaa says since her mom still doesn't know the language. "I didn't notice the sun going down..."

Most cities don't like homeless people, so.

She's watching the grey a bit warily.

"Time to get along home," says the grey.

"Yeah!" She gets up and takes her mom's hand, pulling her in a non-park direction.

The grey doesn't take it upon himself to follow them.

She is rested enough to stay awake now, at least.

When Bright starts yawning again she scoops up her child and repeats her theft routine from the night before. Different stores this time, though.

The different stores are closer to the middle of town and have security cameras.

She is unfortunately only familiar with the long-exposure type of camera that no one installs outside of stores.

She'll still stay away from anywhere that looks up-scale or peopled, but she's not being cautious about cameras like a modern citizen would.

Then when she hits store number 2, a pair of greys on very fast scooters with enough room to stuff a prisoner each in the backs corner her.

What, her, the extremely fast shadow rushing into an alleyway and up the side of a building? Those scooters don't look like they can climb.

(This is a disaster but she doesn't know how they caught her, so she gets on a roof and starts sneaking away. Towards the city edge, she didn't have this problem there.)

"- Alien?" calls one of the greys. "Uh, Ms. Alien? We just want to talk -"