Little Alec/ OC/ Bar of Many Places

[mm_kippur]

Shared birthdays are never fun. This is why Alec has taken the moment to steal into the bar. He doesn't know if anyone will join him for food and things, but he does know that he is going to get some! He talks to the wait rats and asks for lots and lots and lots of sugary foods that he wasn't normally allowed to eat

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[lockedupwithme]

There's another boy watching Alec with wide eyes.

That's more sweets than Walter's ever seen in one place before.

...Heck, that's more sweets than Walter's ever seen, period.

[little_troven]

Sensing the other boy's stare he looks and gives him a friendly ^_^.

"Do you want some? You can have some. I can't eat all of it!"

[lockedupwithme]

Caught out, Walter's ears turn red.

"If you d-don't mind..."

[little_troven]

"Course not!" Alec waves him over and offers him a cookie with nuts on it. "It's my birthday today," he says confidentially.

[lockedupwithme]

Walter takes it, hesitantly. "Happy birthday."

Being social isn't really Walter's thing.

[little_troven]

That's okay, Alec's insanely sociable. "Thanks! I'm Alec, what's your name? Do you want anything to drink? I've got milk, but you can have something else if you want."

[lockedupwithme]

"Walter...I'm fine. Thanks for the, the cookie."

He's been admonished (not gently) before about imposing on others and their generosity.

[little_troven]

"Hi Walter." Alec looks frowny and confused. He's never met an abused child before. "Do you want something else?"

[lockedupwithme]

"Uh, hi. I'm g-good."

He's still holding the cookie, but not taking a bite.

To be fair, Walter is a little bewildered. He's never met a nice kid before.

[little_troven]

"You're supposed to eat the cookie... unless you don't like cookies? Where are you from?" Alec will prattle happily and friendly like. "I'm from Quarim and I'm a wizard. I'm almost as good as Jono, he's the best in my class and my best friend even if he is stupid a lot of the times."

[lockedupwithme]

He fiddles with the cookie, awkwardly. He's good at awkward.

"New York?" he ventures.

Quite frankly, he would be content for Alec to babble.

[little_troven]

"I've heard of that. I've never been there before. It's supposed to have lots of tall buildings, right?" Alec is quite content to babble. "And lots and lots of people live there all crammed together like wheat in a barrel."

He takes a large bite out of a cookie like Walter's.

[lockedupwithme]

"Yeah."

Beat. "Yeah."

Walter takes a much smaller bite of his cookie, since Alec is eating.

[little_troven]

It's a walnut cookie.

He devours the cookie and is completely heading for a massive stomachache.

"We don't have a lot of tall buildings. Though there is the council building which looks like a blue funnel with the small part on the bottom. And there's the library. It's supposed to have every magic book ever!" He says this proudly.

[lockedupwithme]

Walter is pretty sure magic is frowned upon in his neighborhood.

"Neat," he says anyway. Because Alec is nice and stuff.

[little_troven]

Magic is most definitely not frowned upon in Alec's neighborhood!

"Yeah, though I don't like books that much. Reading's hard."