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[girl_unlocking]

Okay.

First things first. Because first things should come first unless...

...I have no idea where I was going with that.

Anyway.

Summers and Elric Muffin Alchemy Incorporated is proud to announce its official opening. We've been kind of open for a while, but we like to think of this as Opening: The Sequel, or---

Um, Dawn, the sign says...

---dangit.

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[Video]

[femininehermes]

[Hermione laughs faintly, amused by the conversation in general.]

I...see. [Though she doesn't.] What are you selling exactly?

[Video]

[girl_unlocking]

Muffins! And alchemical supplies. But not in the muffins, they're separate.
But some of them were made with alchemy!

Are you new? I don't remember you from before...

...uh. The poof.

[video]

[inpiecesofcloud]

Yay! Did you make the pink candy ones, Muffy?

[Which is aparently short for Muffin Girl which is apparently what Yachiru has decided to call Dawn.]

[video]

[girl_unlocking]

[Laughing!]

Muffy? I did! They're not on the menu yet, cause I don't have a name for them, and there are a few kinds, but they're all pink.

[video]

[inpiecesofcloud]

Yay! I get to try them, right?

[video]

[girl_unlocking]

Of course! You can taste test all of them. Oh! And maybe bring some candy, and we can come up with more?

[Anything to stop you from TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS. Even though Trevor kind of knows, now. It's still a little awkward, and not completely gone, and ...well, she just likes giving you candy.]

[ Voice ]

[velvet_zealot]

...Is the appearance of a place really what makes it a home? Like...family?

[ Voice ]

[girl_unlocking]

Not really, no. This place doesn't look anything like my home at ...home, but it still is one.

And it helps a lot when you have a place to put your stuff, and maybe a place to...

...well, to think. Call your own? Read a book without me crossbowing five feet away, or babbling wordvomit all over the Forge?

Al's my family, here. Riza too. It doesn't matter if...

...it doesn't matter if we don't share the same blood. At least not to me. Especially not to me.

[Because her real family isn't really her family either, if you think about it one way. And she's forgotten you completely, Yazoo. That's the tradeoff of her spellfail. Interesting, the way things work out.]

I don't think we've met. I'm Dawn, by the way. Do you have ...family here? Of any kind?

[ Voice to Video ]

[velvet_zealot]

[ ... ]

[ ? ]

[ !!! ]

Yazoo.

I have... [ Does Zack count? Luciela? ] ...some people.

[ Did you get hit in the head or something? You don't seem to remember me. This...may help, then. He turns on the video feed. ]

...Blood isn't important when it comes to family.

[Video ]

[girl_unlocking]

[Headtilt. Does that even sound familiar? Nope. Not a bit.]

Then you're lucky. To be able to find them, have them here with you. It makes it easier.

[But sometimes worse when they leave. Like ...Jason. And Johan. And. No, Dawn. Just stop.]

I have Spike, too. But he's a given. He's from home.

[Kind of, yes! With magic!]

It so doesn't. I'm glad you've got them. [You remind her of Sephiroth, a little. (Which is funny because he reminded her of you and she peed her pants, but she doesn't remember that!) She's cycling through the other silver haired people that have gone. Hope. (God, that one hurts.) Freyadjour. (Maybe if she'd gone and found him right away he wouldn't have been swallowed up by the Mist).]

I...

...I like your hair.

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[manscruff]

[ wow Dawn. you talk a lot. and what the hell are... muffins. ]