Black Mage Hatchling Trading Trip!

[mage_hatchlings]

Ten little hatchlings maneuver a garden cart into the Nexus. It's loaded down with tubs of strawberries and raspberries, jars of raspberry and strawberry jam, raspberry and strawberry shortbread cookies, and of course those softball shaped vanilla cakes

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[vicioussweetie]

Strawberries! That gets a bit of a smile from Ali; the hatchlings, even moreso. And Alured's just a happy baby.

"I like strawberries best, and cherries. Ooh, are those vanilla cakes I smell?"

[mage_hatchlings]

"Uh huh!" says Teo.

"We made them this morning," Tavi adds with a nod.

"Strawberries are very good," Mistral says.

"Mr. 33 says we've had a lot of strawberries this year," comments Lono.

[vicioussweetie]

"So I see! They look very yummy." She sits, settling Alured in her lap so she can get things out of her bag. "Let me see what I've got that you might like..."

Out comes two boxes of crayons, two pads of drawing paper, a blank journal a leather cover, a notepad full of recipes she's copied down for them, and a bag of marbles.

[mage_hatchlings]

Wow! Wide glowing eyes look at all the fun things. They'll happily trade for things like those!

"What do you want?" a hatchling says, willing to let her pick whatever she wants off the cart in trade.

[dantespet]

Al looks curiously at the hatchlings.

"I don't really have a favorite kind of berry. I'm not that picky about them."

He considers the jars of jam for a moment or two before digging around in a bag of things he acquired in the shopping trip he was heading home from.

"Think this would be enough for a jar or two of jam?" he asks, offering a standard shrink-wrapped package of 250 sheets of paper.

[mage_hatchlings]

Oooh! Paper!

"Ok!" a hatchling chirps happily.

[dantespet]

Al hands over the paper and takes one of each kind of jam, putting them carefully away. "That should last you guys a few hours. Hopefully."

[mage_hatchlings]

"Thank you, mister," Luca says.

[thebasi]

A little human girl of about seven sees them and is Very Curious! So she heads over. No Heartless with her, though she does still look like Basi, and her shadow is a little more active than she is. 'I like strawberries and cherries,' she says, and looks into the cart. Oooo, berries and cakes~!

[mage_hatchlings]

"Hello!"

She looks familiar to them, but so far none of them have quite placed why. A few of the hatchlings stare at her shadow, curious.

"Strawberries are good," Lono says. "Mr. 33 says we've had a lot of strawberries this year. More than last year."

[thebasi]

She turns away from the cart, beaming at the one who'd greeted her, and at all of them in general. 'Hello!' And a pause for listening. 'Mister Thirty-three? Who's that?' She doesn't say it's a strange name - her perception of that has changed liek whoa in the last few days - but she looks bemused.

Her shadow moves almost like water as she moves, but less physical, rippling around her feet.

[mage_hatchlings]

"Mr. 33 and Mr. 111 take care of the garden and the animals," Kaze says.

"I help with the garden sometimes. I like the garden," says Lono.

"And I take care of the chickens," Mistral adds.

Teo and Tavi, curious, try to poke at the moving shadow.