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You know what Atiqua loved? Getting free stuff. Free broken stuff. Why? Because not only was it free, but it could be fixed. Any you know what was the best to get? Free, broken food. Broken food because it didn’t look good enough for some trolls higher blood or lower. Shops tended to give away free food if you went at the right time and told them you could fix their problem of having broken looking food out. It was usually the lowblood shops that she could trick, and even as a child, her blood let her have a bit of leeway. Just how she managed to walk away with a box full of faygo in cans. Dented cans, but hey, free dented cans. She also scored some slightly burned meat baskets. Delicious meaty goodness in a warm flacky crust usually, the top crust was slightly charred. She could pick that off. No problem.

Her challenge however, would be keeping it from any passing grubby fingers. She tricked those flubbing fools on her own and like hell she was going to just randomly share her sweet loot with any nooksucker. Waiting on a bench for seadad to come back from where he was, Atiqua hissed and glared at every other troll kid that passed. A few older trolls of lower blood too. Mostly she just huddled over her loot like a tiny angry lusus.

Stealing her s**t? Talk about rude. As some larger redblood got up close, it took a lot of willpower not to just hiss at her and abscond. Leave behind a really nasty burned meat baskets to maybe hold them off while she fled but no. Her meat baskets, even the burned ones. The fur was new though. New and soft and no. No. Distracted. Her loot, not your’s. “I don’t remember you.” Eyes narrowed as she looked the older troll up and down. “And if we’re friend how come you don’t remember me? I’m Atiqua. If you can’t even remember my name maybe you aren’t my friend after all.” She huffed, scooting a bit away, still huddled over her loot.

Her meat baskets.
Hiss hiss.

Scoot. Sccoooooooot. Atiqua was quickly running out of space. And by quickly she was considering her option of going in the ground... even if that would be dirty. And risky. He food might get dirt and who knew what else in it. "I.. guess?" The teal was reluctant to agree to being friends just like that but- this was a red blood. She'd be fine. Sorta. "So Magild."

Her thoughts were winding back over to the fur. Fingers petting it. All she normally got to pet was seadad, and those were scales. Scales were not soft and fuzzy. "You Lusus made it? Hrmmm." Orange eyes went to the boot. "You ever think about selling them?'

And then marketing them as high low-blood fashion?

Dang, she could have made some sweet beetles with some high low-blood fashion scam. Well, maybe she could. It would just be a lot of work if she started with nothing. Maybe she's just take high blood stuff and reverse market it to low bloods. Yeah, less risky too. Never knew when a higher blood would snap after all.

"Nevers is a pretty long time. I'd just say until next week. Because then who knows? It is a great mystery." Fingers wiggled, before going back around her bags. Well one hand at any rate, the fur was soft, and the troll couldn't deny if felt nice. Looking to the red blood, then to where she was looking. Atiqua's eyes narrowed. Nope. New friend or not, no freebies. "You wanna buy a meat basket? This one's got real hoofbeast inside."

The kill ended with Atiqua at the end of the bench, wide eyed. She was going to be culled, she just knew it. Culled by some redblood over some meaty meat baskets. But maybe... Maybe... "Yeah, we're friends." Giving a smug look, she pulled out the meat basket with the most burns she could find. "But friends don't always cut friends deals you know. Sometimes friends make a trade."

She looked at the fur boots. "I don't want you to starve but I had to get these all on my own. Friend or not, I can give you one-" she offered the black rimmed hoofbeast pie, "-But any others we need to work out a deal."

Starring at the redblood, Atiqua had never worried about being eaten before. Now she slightly did. Some people chewed their food, others swallowed it whole.

And scared sane trolls like herself.

"Huhhhhhh." keeping the other meat pies to herself, the teal nodded her head. "Friends are nice. You don't eat friends." Hopefully. "Wait. Bearmom?"

She wasn't sure if she wanted or not.

Well, that was good. Friends don't eat friends. Bless you Magild, bless. This teal would not fear so much for her young life. "It's Atiqua. An-tea-quu-wah. I have Seadad. He's... well he's a fishy thing so probably not good for friends with your bearmom." Fish and bears were bad combos.

Unless you were the bear.

"Shout though? Like Ahhhhhhhh?" It wasn't very loud at all. More like casual shout. If a shout could be casual.

Magild would learn her name.... one day.

One day.

The yell has Atiqua freezing in shock before rubbing her sound lobes. "That was... ow." It hurt being so close. If anything the red blood had a set of lungs on her.
".....If I gotta try-"

Taking a deep breath, the teal troll called out with not quite all her might.
"BEARMOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmm????" It trailed off, ending in a question. Looking to Magild, she hoped that she hadn't just insulted some lusus with such a weak summoning.