The Magic Box, Wednesday

[iceolatedqueen]

Elsa still wasn't completely certain how she'd gotten herself talked into this. Rinoa, her manager, was apparently some force of nature unto herself, and after a single conversation, suddenly Elsa had found herself agreeing to take a job. In a magic shop, of all places

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In the months that Cecil had lived here, he couldn't recall seeing a magic shop before. So, since he was at loose ends, he decided to stop in and see what they had.

"Oh!" He smiled, knowing the girl behind the counter. "Hello, Elsa."

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Cecil tried to remember. "Most of them, I think. Glitter seems fairly popular."

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"I suppose I can't blame them too much," Elsa decided, thoughtfully. "It's certainly eye-catching. Though I'm not entirely certain I want to know how glitter led to goats at that last dance."

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"Oh, I'm pretty sure the goats were Loki's idea!" Cecil tried to remember. "His brother has some, I think?"

Because really, "Loki" explained so much.

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It really did. Elsa was some variation on 'Norse,' herself, after all.

"And the Loki that's a student here... his brother is Thor," she remembered, though it still seemed odd to say. "I think the goats that were at the dance were a little small to be Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóst, though."

But then, what did she know? Maybe they just came back a little smaller after Thor devoured their flesh every day.

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"I wouldn't know," Cecil confessed apologetically. "I've never really been much of a goat person."

Literally or figuratively.

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"That would actually make two of us," Elsa admitted with a little duck of her head. "I've never really had much experience with livestock."

It was a princess thing.

"How is your search for bloodstone polish going? If we don't have any, I can probably talk to Rinoa and get her to put some on the next order."

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"Oh!" Cecil shook himself and laughed. "I haven't been looking; I've been talking." He turned toward the stones and peered at them. "I don't see any off-hand..." He tried peeking behind things carefully.

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"Is there a particular... label or something that it might have?"

Elsa slipped from behind the counter and walked over to the shelf as well, crouching down low to see if maybe it was somewhere near the bottom.

"Something to keep an eye out for, aside from its purpose, perhaps?"

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"Usually a big eye?" Cecil shrugged. "I don't see it, but I can just get some from home, I suppose."

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"A big eye," Elsa echoed, and then frowned and shook her head a little. "I can't see any of it, either. But if you can get some from home, bring in the bottle and I'll make a note of it, and we'll be sure to keep it in stock from now on."

At least, she was pretty certain that she could make it work that way. It wouldn't do to be a retailer of magic supplies, and then not have something as basic as, er, rock polish.

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"That would be great!" Cecil smiled. "I'd really appreciate it."

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"Then I'll see what can be done for you," Elsa decided, turning a smile up at him from where she was still crouched. "No sense in making you travel every time you want to polish your bloodstone, right?"

And what good was a magic shop if they didn't carry the one thing Elsa's only customer so far had actually come in looking for?

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"Oh, I wouldn't travel. I'd just have ♥Carlos♥ send me some. But still, I appreciate it."