Again, the tree is sitting serenely in the Nexus, still decked quite beautifully and shimmering prettily with its lights and the glow of the multicolored orbs surrounding it. Today, the game it started on the fourth is continuing and the tree is waiting in anticipation. (Because trees do that, really.) This time, there are red and green cards
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"I brought you a Christmas present!" Ami explains cheerfully. She holds up the actual shopping bag, the name emblazoned on it being a recognizable department store, in Japan of her world at least. It will turn out to be a man's shirt in Pharaun's size, with suspiciously pastel-colored buttons. She did at least make sure the 'buttons' are all the same color.
"Go ahead!" She nudges the bag towards him.
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Come on, Pharaun, don't let her down. She has to get you in that shirt and to the Christmas tree, and she gets bonus points (in her own mind, anyway) if she does it without you having any idea what she's up to. Besides, there's no way you wouldn't enjoy fashion. Or showing off and being admired. And the buttons are totally stylish. Just don't get them wet. Or taste them, although they're remarkably sweet if you do.
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He emerged a few minutes later, carrying the shirt he'd been wearing before. "So, how do I look?"
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"Hey, hey, Pharaun, have you seen the Christmas tree yet?" She smiles and reaches out to hold onto his arm to head in that direction.
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"You're too mean! Are you coming?" she asks.
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Ami pulls out the card she received originally, and sets it back on a branch of the tree. Then, she clasps her hands together in front of her, pointing upward, just as if she were at a shrine.
"I brought gingerbread cookies for the scavenger hunt," she announces to the tree. "And this is mine, too!" A huge grin and a gesture to Pharaun who is, indeed, 'a man with shirt buttons made from candy' at the moment. Just as planned.
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"It's the tree," Ami explains, and she doesn't bother worrying about sounding insane because well, this is the nexus. And Pharaun's used to magic, too. "It's been enchanted to give us scavenger hunt clues." She points towards the card she replaced, which can be read clearly still: On the fifth day of Christmas, the Nexus brought to me/A man with shirt buttons made from candy.
"The buttons on your shirt," she clarifies. "I replaced them with candies from a candy necklace I got at the mall. So you're the man with candy shirt buttons. Like these." She withdraws both tins of gingerbread men, and hands one to Pharaun.
"Give it that and maybe it'll give you the new clue, too, for being a good sport." It really should. Meanwhile, as she offers up her tin of gingerbread men, she sees the card with her name in silver lettering.
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