Allumins eyes drifted over the various festival booths, and he found himself drawn unerringly to one selling fish tacos. Not exactly the most romantically inclined food, but it was hardly something he could resist. Allumin ordered two, then sat down on a bench with his newest familiar. Baron, as he knew was going to be his name, sniffed at the air hungrily. Allumin carefully picked out a small pile of lettuce, onions, and tomato bits from each of his tacos, set them on a napkin, then laid it on his shoulder where the jackalope could easily get at it. The nixie sat, eating his tacos, with baron nibbling his pile of vegetables, and watched the people passing by. Once the food was gone, Allumin carefully wadded up the paper and tossed it in the trash. As he did so he blinked at the glint of something gold inside. Wrinkling his nose, Allumin fished out a lovely gold and red heart locket. "Who would throw something so pretty away?" He asked Baron, to which he received a small head bunting as a reply.
On his way back to his booth for another check in, Laurel found himself being drawn in by another jewelry stand. It was decorated similarly to the one with the bracelets, but had smaller boxes with impossibly cute rings in them! He couldn't possibly say no to rings with little heart shaped holes in them, could he? The short answer of course was no, but the long answer was certainly not!
"I'll come back soon for the purple one, I have to restock my plushies first!" He beamed, slipping the pink ring on his finger and jogging toward his booth. He couldn't believe how suddenly it had gotten busy! He had to start making more plushies right now! (117 words)
Despite both of them wanting something savory instead of sweet to snack on, neither Valerian or Viveka could resist the pull of the pull of the chocolate boxes. It was something about the bite sized chunks of sugar and nougat that you just couldn't fight. Hopefully neither of them over indulged themselves, or they'd be sick with a stomachache when they got back to the dorm!
"I think some of these have coconut in them, yuck!" Valerian whined, sticking his tongue out. "I don't know why I don't like coconut, but it just makes the chocolate taste funny. What do you think, Viveka?" (104 words)
Viveka popped another coconut filled chocolate into his mouth just as Valerian posed his question and found himself freezing for a minute. ... Well, he wasn't fond of coconut, but he didn't hate it either. It was one of those hit or miss things that tasted good in some stuff but less good in others. Chocolate and coconut was something he'd put on the lower side of that list, but coconut shrimp happened to be one of his favorite foods. He tapped his chin and hummed.
"Uhm, it depends for me, really." He replied, tilting his head as he thought. "I like coconut on shrimp and some other stuff, but not as much in chocolate. ... Though coconut milk is super gross. I don't know why people like to drink it. It looks like you're drinking watery milk." (138 words)
Siobhan was thankful that Tyrian had decided that it was snack time when he had. Her little paws were getting tired! The pair happily grabbed their pieces of chocolate cream pie and found themselves somewhere to sit, until Siobhan found a little something crawling beneath the table.
"Aww, poor little Nezubat!" She exclaimed, scooping the blue bat up off the ground. "... I don't think you want chocolate pie. It might be bad for your stomach, but you could have something else."
She reached into her pocket and pulled out a bag of nuts, which she happily fed to the hungry Nezubat, before looking to Tyrian across the way.
"You enjoying that piece of pie, Tyrian?" She laughed. (118 words)
Tyrian, who's face was looking less than glamorous with all of the crumbs and chocolate smeared all over it, peered up and squinted at Siobhan as she laughed. What was she being so cheeky about? He'd earned this damn piece of pie after dealing with her all day, and he could eat it any way he pleased! If that way happened to mean for going silverware and diving head first into it, so be it! It was his pie!
"Oh, hush! At least I'm eating my pie." He nipped, albeit weakly, and went right back to eating his pie. However, as he licked the rest of his plate clean, something else on the ground caught his eye. A single purple rose on a stem? What was that doing on the ground? He picked it up, shrugged, and stuck it behind his ear. "... I kind of want another piece of pie now. That one was so good." (157 words)
Okay, maybe she'd spoken too soon. The stands seemed to empty out just as soon as they'd been filled and her faith in adults and adult-kind alike shattered again. What did it take to fill a sack full of candy around here? Begging? Pleading? Crying enough to fill a stadium? What did she have to do to get her hands on more than just two sacks of candy? She'd do anything at this point! It just wasn't fair! Milo had said she'd be getting candy by the barrel is she kept walking around like this, but there just wasn't any to be found! What kind of trickery was this? (110 words)
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Allumins eyes drifted over the various festival booths, and he found himself drawn unerringly to one selling fish tacos. Not exactly the most romantically inclined food, but it was hardly something he could resist. Allumin ordered two, then sat down on a bench with his newest familiar. Baron, as he knew was going to be his name, sniffed at the air hungrily. Allumin carefully picked out a small pile of lettuce, onions, and tomato bits from each of his tacos, set them on a napkin, then laid it on his shoulder where the jackalope could easily get at it. The nixie sat, eating his tacos, with baron nibbling his pile of vegetables, and watched the people passing by. Once the food was gone, Allumin carefully wadded up the paper and tossed it in the trash. As he did so he blinked at the glint of something gold inside. Wrinkling his nose, Allumin fished out a lovely gold and red heart locket. "Who would throw something so pretty away?" He asked Baron, to which he received a small head bunting as a reply.
