Welcome to Gaia! ::

The Through the Looking Glass shop doors were wide open, letting sunlight and the slight cool breeze. The shop got darker the deeper within you went, but there was a large desk lamp sitting upon one of the counters. An elvish woman appearing to be in her early twenties was sitting at the lit counter, flipping through papperwork.

Emme looked up as the woman entered the shop. Ah! A welcome distraction. She closed her book with a thump, straightened her glasses and stood up.

"Yes, can I help you?" She replied to the woman's inquiry, giving her a reassuring smile. She had a feeling that the redhead had been expecing someone else to be behind the counter. "I'm Emme." She said after a moment. "I know where most everything is, so just let me know what I can do for you."

"Ah! sure!" Emme exclaimed. "We've got layaways in the store room. Let me see what I can find. Just a sec." Emme went into the back room and looked through a couple of boxes with lables. Finally she found the name "Huni" in Aurora's writing on a lable attatched to a heavy gold necklace with three blue stones and one large green stone in the middle. She brought it to the front counter, admiring the large gleaming stones herself as she walked.

Sarria entered the shop, hoping to meet up with another Simu or two and smiled when she saw the other two in the shop and was that a Panda Bear?! "Hello Miss Emme!" She greeted the woman she recongized and gave her a friendly wave. Next she gave the one she didn't know a second smile, "And hello miss, is that your bear? She's certainly cute!"

She also wondered if this meant Emme's little Simu was also in the shop. Figuring since he was little and all, or so she thought, he would be near Emme. "Is Ray here?"

Emme giggled as the panda gently took the necklace. "Hold tight, it's heavy." She said, supporting most the weight until the little creature had a good hold of it.

"You've heard the stories about some of our antiques, haven't you?" Emme asked Huni before taking payment.

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Ray sulked upstairs. He really wasn't ready to see anyone. He felt like an entirely different person. And he was still getting used to his scratchy voice... though he still prefered not to talk at all.

He would have stayed home, but Raven was there resting up from his trip to Gaia. Ray just prefered to not be in the house alone with him... though why exactly, was still beyond him.

"Sarria!" Emme greeted, "It's so good to see you again!" She nodded and glanced back at the stairs. "He's upstairs sulking, but he could probably use some outside human contact."

Emme returned her attention to Huni, shaking her head a bit at the answer she'd recieved. "Well, just so you know, our antiques can be a big responsibility." Emme paused for a moment, and continued. "Just take good care of it, as I'm sure you will." Emme felt confident that the necklace had found a good home... they always did, some how...

Either fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how one looks at it, the Amazon teen was already in the store, lazily laying back on an armchair and throwing her throwing knives at a hand drawn target that she had made on the wall across from her. If someone hadn't been watching, the other teen may have walked into the pathway of the sharp flying objects.

Her eyes flicked once over to the extravant teen before she let another small knife fly, not even bothering to send a verbal hello, a simple nod being her only greeting.

The teen's eyebrows seemed to narrow with the once over, widening abruptly when he squealed, shrugging her shoulders absently after a bit as she let another knife fly. "The skirt's from Greece..." She mad a lazy motion to the roughly pieced fur skirt she donned before continuing, "And I grew with this top... Why? Going to give crossdressing a try?"

Even though her tone was a bit snide, she was quite amused by this fellow, eyes flicking to the other red head for a 'greeting' before returning to the taller teen. "The name's Zanna. You are?"

"Well Lordy, I prefer Zanna... Not Z, and most definately not Zan..." Her tongue clicked against the top of her mouth as she stood, moving across the room to collect her arrangement of knives in the wall. "Unless you want me to call you Sam, or even better... Sammy...?"

Once all her knives were collected, Zanna turned to him and gave him a slight smirk while she swiftly replaced her throwing knives in the two straps along her upper thighs, hiking her skirt higher to do so successfully.

"And your guardian's name?" The teen could sense he was a Simu, and most new Simu came with their guardians so she figured it was a safe assumption.

"Alright, a compromise! Lady Zanna or Darling Zanna it is then. And as for how you address me, if you truly insist on Sam or Sammy... be warned that I may not respond as quickly as you would want." he chuckled, running his fingers through his hair.

'She can call me that all she wants but I won't acknowledge her without the Lord or the rest of my name.' he thought to himself.

"And your guardian's name?"

"Oh you mean mother? The medusa back home called her Madam Huni, although she certainly doesn't have the bearing for nobility. But still, she's my guardian so I suppose it's appropriate that she be addressed as such." he shrugged.

"But enough about her, tell me more of this place. Mother claimed I came from a necklace she purchased here. Are you, perhaps, like me? A being -a fabulous one at that- who came from an antique trinket?"

Huni felt it was best to stay where she was, at the shop's entrance. Sim seemed to be handling things just fine, and seeing the weapons Zanna was carrying, she didn't want to risk saying anything wrong. But if worse came to worse, she'd drag Sim out to save his hide.

"With my aim, it's in your best interest to respond as quickly as I would want." Zanna grinned in amusement at the teen as she finished replacing her last throwing knife before reaching over and grasping her spear that had been leaning against the wall.

Leaning against her main weapon, the teen raised her eyebrow once again with the other teen's rant on 'nobility', clearing her throat before responding almost lazily. "And if you just came recently yourself, praytell how do you know that you are nobility?"

Zanna herself was pretty sure that she was a queen, but still hadn't done the research or had the dreams to confirm it yet. "Ah, I came from a mirror... Several months ago, unlike you, who came as a teen... I was a child for a while before I grew."

"From what I gather about the shoppe, is that spirits are locked away in antiques and whatnot, and then with the right guardian, a child or teen is born from them..."

"But then again, I don't talk to colors..." Her eyes rolled openly at his display of 'hurt' by her words, one of her hands running through her hair absently. "I'm sure I could inflict pain far worse than you could fathom..."

Feeling amused, and in a slightly better mood, the teen moved her spear and jabbed his chest with the blunt end of the weapon. "Yes, golden and jeweled... Tis somewhere at home." A few more jabs and then she set the spear back down against the ground and leaned upon it. "You never answered my question from earlier... You trying to get into crossdressing? I could see if the Amazon's had a skirt like this in your size if you wish..."

The smirk was back, her eyes taking in his apparel for most of her talking.