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[lightupthedevil]

WHO Eddie and Paul, Romana, Hope and anyone else who would like to run into him.
WHAT Eddie out and about
WHERE Around town. I can get Eddie just about anywhere you might needed him.
WHEN This week. Lemme know the day in the tag line

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Saturday, in a dollar store?

[lovesaroman]

Back in England, Amy had gone to places like Poundland, but this place seemed to go by the almighty American dollar, so she was walking the tiny aisles of a "dollar store," looking at the cheap knockoffs and smiling to herself.

She reached out to pick up a plastic package containing something akin to a My Little Pony, but the precarious stacking meant about five tumbled down onto the floor.

"Bugger," she muttered to herself, bending down to pick the brightly colored ponies up and put them back.

[lightupthedevil]

Eddie was out picking up odds and ends. Doing odd jobs wasn't bad for cash, but he certainly apperciated being able to pick up half his supplies for a buck a piece.

When he saw the pile of ponies crumble on the young woman, he managed to contain a smile, stooping down to help her grab them. "They're trying to escape bootleg retail."

[lovesaroman]

"Think they've the right idea," she quipped, smiling up at him as he offered his help. "Thanks." The ponies safely returned to the shelf, she shook her head. "Can't expect the employees to care about how they stack these things. If I worked here, I'd toss them on the shelf all willy-nilly too."

[lightupthedevil]

I can't imagine working at the dollar store is a very profitable, emotionally fulfilling experience." He laughed, setting the ponies up much more carefully then they had been in the first place, twisting one in his fingers so it pranced a little as he set it down.

[lovesaroman]

"Probably not," she agreed. "But some have to do what they can to get by, even if they don't like it. Which leads to toppled ponies, I guess." She shrugged and set her hands in her pockets, eyes moving from the ponies to other cheap toys.

[lightupthedevil]

"You buying ponies for anyone particular? Or just...a pony enthusist?"

There hadn't been a lot of kids running around, but that didn't mean they weren't around somewhere. Kids had a way of not being seen if they diodn't want to, and he couldn't blame them for not wanting to be seen around here.

Or, she could have just wanted a pony.

[lovesaroman]

"Neither," she answered with a chuckle. "Just mucking about, waiting for my boyfriend to get off work." She might buy a pony as a gag gift for a friend, but not seriously.

[lightupthedevil]

"Does he work here?" Eddie glanced to the clerk, hoping he hadn't stuck his foot in it somehow with the comment about the job...well, blowing. But the clerk was a middle aged woman, and he doubted there was a stocker lingering around back.

[lovesaroman]

"Oh no, he works at the Hostel clinic," she explained. "I just decided to go out shopping instead of putter around there. Just wanted a change in scenery, y'know?"

[lightupthedevil]

"Oh, is he a doctor?"

That had to be damn useful around here. Any sort of medical skills, really.

[lovesaroman]

"A nurse," she clarified. "But he's quite good and he wants to be a doctor someday."

She poked at some toys on the shelves, not really finding much of interest.

"Sometimes you strike gold in these places, but I don't think today is one of those times."

[lightupthedevil]

"Well, unless you have a really undiscerning seven year old girl to shop for." he chuckled, before extending a hand. "I'm Eddie Dean, by the way."

[lovesaroman]

"Unfortunately, I don't have that excuse." She laughed, removing her hand from her pocket to shake his.

"Amy Pond, pleased to meet you."

[lightupthedevil]

"Pleased to meet you as well, Miss Pond. You're a cast away here, am I right?" He asked, arching an eyebrow. He wasn't positive, but most the people he meet...there seemed to be a difference.

[lovesaroman]

"That's a good word for it. We're stranded, so we are a bit like castaways." She bobbed her head though, confirming that she was, in fact, one of the ones the city had picked to suffer there.

[lightupthedevil]

"It wouldn't be so bad, really, if there wasn't this feeling of waiting for the other foot to fall." Because some cosmic force didn't just pull you into other worlds for shits and giggles.