She’ll be safer if she’s at her brother’s house. Laura hops off the bench and leaves the park. It takes her a few moments to get her bearings, but she eventually determines where she is and heads for her brother’s place. Her stomach rumbles as she walks. The cape, which she’d liked at first, now annoys her how she had thought it would when she put it on. And most uncomfortable to her at the moment, the training pants under her clothes don’t feel anything like underwear. She can’t even pretend she’s not wearing them.
As she walks, Laura second-guesses that move, to put on training pants. Yes, it’s what a preschooler would wear, but it’s not evident by looking at her that she’s wearing training pants. She would have been fine wearing regular underwear. The only reason a stranger would know she was wearing training pants would be if they were checking her for an accident. Which won’t happen.
Laura turns a corner. She can see her brother’s house. Her pace speeds up. Before she can get there, however, someone grabs her arm. She looks up at the person accosting her. It’s a young woman in a daycare uniform.
“Well, hello there, superhero!” the woman coos. “You ran off to go save the day, huh?”
“I-” Laura starts.
“You can save the day at preschool, buddy,” the woman says, guiding Laura away from her brother’s house. Laura’s eyes widen. She’s being ushered towards the daycare and preschool by her brother’s house, Little Forest. How could she have forgotten that she’d walk past it?
Laura only has a few moments to make a decision before she gets stuck in preschool.