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[girl_unlocking]

[Sitting at a small table inside the shop, a small smudge of flour on her nose. A small glass terrarium sits on the tabletop, and with three brightly colored butterflies inside. (Two pink, one teal if you're looking.)]

Just an eff-why-eye that Elric and Summers Muffin Alchemy Incorporated is fully incorporational again. I mean operationalFor those

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[samianscar]

[video responds to tap his nose at her]

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[girl_unlocking]

[Hesitantly tapping back, on the opposite side of her own nose. Is this ...some kind of code?]

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[samianscar]

[adjusts his aim so he's tapping the precise part of his nose where she has flour on hers.]

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[girl_unlocking]

[Taptaptap ...oh.]

I should have known you'd have my back.

Or my nose. It's an either or thing.

[Voice]

[demon_andbutler]

Did you say you have a... "Beef Corner" in a bakery?

[ALSO, NO LOVE FOR BIRDMAN, IS THERE?]

[Voice]

[girl_unlocking]

A Bee. Eff. Eff. Corner. You know, the abbrevi---acronym?

[Oh, wait. This is Sebastian.]

---like best friends forever. Bee. Eff. Eff. It's a corner for friends. There's a footwarmer.

{Which explains everything, right?]

[Voice]

[demon_andbutler]

[That makes less sense than a Beef Corner, actually. But that doesn't surprise him. This is Dawn.]

Ah. I see. I had thought perhaps you'd decided to add meat pies to the menu.

[Sorry, not only is his 19th century showing, his British is as well.]

A Bee-Eff-Eff corner sounds... cosy.

[Voice]

[girl_unlocking]

Meat pies? Well. I guess the blood muffin kind of qualifies, but that's a special item, and I don't---

---do you think they'd sell?

[There was that meat of indistinguishable origin, way back when.]

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[bedsidemanners]

If you're just blond, can you get half off?

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[girl_unlocking]

That's a really good question. I'm surprised nobody's asked that before. Sneaky.

I like it.

Ordinarily, the answer'd be no, but since you brought it to my attention...

...why not!

Free muffins for the blond stranger, going once, going twice. And sold.

Only not because they're free!

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[bedsidemanners]

[That catches him off guard a bit. Enough that he actually grins.]

... Thank you very much. Who do I have the pleasure of speaking to, Summers or Elric?

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[girl_unlocking]

I'm the Summers. My sister's a Summers too, but she's more in the beating-the-crap-out-of-evil line of work and not so much with the baked goods.

I'm Dawn.

Summers.

And I'm gonna need a name! To make it official, put it in the books---

Okay, we don't really have books, but...

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[sucksatkidou]

What kinda muffins?

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[girl_unlocking]

What kind you want?

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[sucksatkidou]

Whattaya suggest?

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[girl_unlocking]

Not the salmon one. Or the one with the asparagus. Unless ...you're looking to chuck something off a roof.

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[maelstroms]

[ From a pleasant visual of butterflies to talk of murder in the span of a single broadcast - how did that happen, precisely?

Anyway...! ]

You're quite generous with your business, Summers-san! I'm sure it will bounce back quickly from its brief hiatus.

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[girl_unlocking]

[Those are sad butterflies, Ukitake. Sad, sad butterflies. Of the original four she gifted, only Riza has hers. Only Riza remains in Anatole.]

Thank you, Ukitake. I think it will, too, but it's nice to have the vote of confidence.

And you know you have carte blanche sitting priviledge when it comes to the corner, right?

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[maelstroms]

Carte blanche?

[ He has that kind of authority over something (sitting privileges in this 'corner'), without having to work for it? Really? Ukitake arches a single, dark eyebrow, blinking once. ]

I do?

[ ... That's. Sort of nice? ]

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[girl_unlocking]

It's only fair. You being one half of the besties, and everything.