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[tookfoolery]

Pippin blinks as the door swings open. Merry has gone back to Brandy Hall and he is alone today, which is why he pauses in the door a moment. He glances over his shoulder, appearing uncertain. Looks at the bar

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[wyrd_fox]

What ho? 'Tis a hobbit!

In honor of the cousin who makes a brief cameo in The Fellowship of the Ring, a certain kitsune has come to investigate.

And maybe make off with a 'shroom or two.

In any case, there's a red fox leaping up on the stool next to Pippin. Doesn't he look positively starved?

[tookfoolery]

Pippin starts to see a fox out in broad daylight, much less leaping atop a stool inside a bar.

"I don't think you're supposed to be inside," he tells it cautiously.

[wyrd_fox]

The fox's ears twitch indignantly. Who says he can't be inside?

Then he goes back to the unashamed begging. You've got a lot of shrooms there, hobbit. Can't you spare one for this poor, starving creature?

[tookfoolery]

There are enough dogs in the Smials that he recognizes perfectly well what the fox is doing. He frowns, surreptitiously pulling the plate closer. "Do foxes eat mushrooms?"

[wyrd_fox]

His lower jaw drops in a fox-grin, and he nods vigorously.

Wait a minute! Do foxes back in the Shire nod like that?

It seems this fox does...as well as being a mushroom connoisseur.

[tookfoolery]

... No, no, they don't.

Pippin's eyes widen.

He looks between his plate and the fox, and then he selects the smallest mushroom and hesitantly tosses it to the fox.

[wyrd_fox]

And the mushroom is deftly caught between shiny, white teeth.

There's a distinct glint of laughter in the fox's eyes as he munches happily.

[tookfoolery]

"That," says Pip, impressed, "was an excellent catch."