Not yet, but it sounds like we oughta be getting more stock soon. Ask 'em now if you need anything and we'll see whether they follow through in a couple days.
[evidently they take requests! not terrible, actually.]
Oh, I wouldn't know what to ask for. [A way home would be nice.] And — well, speaking frankly, I'm a little suspicious of receiving too many favours. Do you know what I mean?
Then, without a word, she leans her head slightly over the bar and lifts her hair from behind. A move that exposes the base of her "crown" — made of living thorns, sprouting from the base of her skull, through the skin from deep beneath.
It's a similar situation around her waist, if he cares to look.]
They're sorta... jellylike? Green and see-through. One that we ran into was huge and wide, with a big mouth on its belly... we couldn't figure out at first why it'd be helping us fight it, 'cause it seemed like the stuff it was made of gave us something of a boost, but then we realized a little later it's just trying to make its food tastier to it.
One of them, yes. There are witches too, of course, and then other things. The Gander and the Goose, the Wolf. Those ones are sort of like gods? But, they're also answering to other things.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
[evidently they take requests! not terrible, actually.]
no subject
no subject
[she means that in the capitalism way, right? right.]
no subject
[Sort of.]
I suppose it might be a debt of sorts, but I meant more like. Well. What if the price paid for all this is something we couldn't hope to pay?
no subject
no subject
Okay, well. You've obviously never been cursed.
no subject
[metaphorically speaking, maybe he has been, but literally? no.]
no subject
Then, without a word, she leans her head slightly over the bar and lifts her hair from behind. A move that exposes the base of her "crown" — made of living thorns, sprouting from the base of her skull, through the skin from deep beneath.
It's a similar situation around her waist, if he cares to look.]
no subject
[WELL. he's appropriately chagrined, there, gaze downcast as he reaches up to rub at the base of his neck.]
no subject
Fairies. [She takes a wry sip of her drink.] So powerful and yet so petty.
This doesn't look quite like their usual work, but I can't help being suspicious.
no subject
[it goes to your head, is the thing.]
...can't say I've run into many fairies, though. One or two things that were called fairies, but they don't sound much like the same thing.
no subject
[Says the literal princess.]
That's odd. What sort of "things?"
[She folds her hands neatly in her lap and waits. Please, tell her sir. Tell her a story.]
no subject
[fairies are carnivorous. unfortunately.]
no subject
[Other things did want to but you know.]
That sounds more like a mindless monster than any sort of higher power.
no subject
[huh. obviously they have power, if they did that to her, but the higher powers he's used to are all... well, they're companies.]
no subject
It's all very confusing.