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[element_wizard]

Alec has been quietly busy.

Bopping in and out of places within time and between.

To do what?

He's found an unused shop of his own and has been renovating it.

For a given value of renovate.

There's junk all over the place. Odds, ends, odd ends, things and whatsits, lots of books, shiny objects and everything else.

Come check it out

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[watsonyourmind]

Watson can't help but be intrigued by junk shops. They always contain the weirdest things. As soon as she wanders in she can smell that familiar smell of old things, yellowing books and darkening wood and who knows what else. The scent of age.

She wonders, for a moment, if she dares to touch anything. Sometimes you got 'bargains' in normal junk shops that ended up being old, dirty, broken, or dangerous. What if she ended up picking up someone's discarded spell and got turned into a rabbit for the rest of her life? That wouldn't be good.

"Hello?"

Maybe she should see who is running this place, first.

[element_wizard]

There's baskets marked "other One Rings" filled with golden rings that seem to glimmer with an unearthly and unreal shine. There's swords marked with different labels - a bunch of katanas of various state of special lookingness - and a fabulous pink sword that claims to be a singing gay sword.

Other brickabrack include rabbits feet, books on all sorts of things of all sorts of sizes and conditions, dice, a few funny lamps, hats and sparkling clothing shiny rocks...

"Hey!" Alec appears... as in sticks his head up as opposed to teleporting... from behind the counter.

[watsonyourmind]

"Oh hey!" she said, relieved to see a familiar face. Some of the denizens of Fairy, she wouldn't trust to hand her a glass of water. But Alec was probably okay, if a bit weird.

"Quite a collection you have going here," she said, poking the spine of the book with a cautious finger.

[element_wizard]

Yes. He's very weird. But generally harmless. For a given value of harmless.

"Oh yeah. You get around as much as I do, you tend to really collect a bunch of junk."

[watsonyourmind]

"Where could you possibly keep it all? People don't just carry around a shop's worth of junk."

When the book doesn't bite, she pulls it off the shelf and begins to wipe off the dust.

[element_wizard]

"Around. I have places where I can keep stuff." Don't ask where.

Then he snaps his fingers as he remembers something. "Oh! I should show you that sword!"

[watsonyourmind]

Jane laughs. "I'm afraid of what she'll say." She was dressed, plainly and warmly, in an oversized coat and blue jeans.

She'll follow him, though.

[element_wizard]

"It. It's a sword."

He jumps over the counter and walks to a stand full of weapons. After rummaging for a moment he pulls out a long sword. That is very pink and gaudily decorated.

Flicking the blade he says "Oi. Wake up."

The blade shimmers and then a voice says. "Oh. It's you again. I see you still haven't changed your ghastly way of dressing. What are you thinking wearing that coat with jeans?"

[watsonyourmind]

"Yeah, well, you're not wearing any clothes," Jane answers, feeling oddly snippy considering it's a freaking pink sword. A glittery pink sword. Did anyone actually ever fight with that? That is, use it as a weapon. She was sure plenty of people fought it.

[element_wizard]

"I," the sword said archly, "Am a sword. I am not supposed to wear clothing."

Alec grins at her as it talks.

[watsonyourmind]

Jane shakes her head. "I don't know how you ever managed to sell it to anyone," she said. "A very stylish knight?"

[element_wizard]

"Very desperate mercenary captain."

[watsonyourmind]

"That sounds like a fantasy novel in the making," she answered, imagining it. She took a long glance around. "So... do you have anything less... rude here? Show me something interesting."

[element_wizard]

"Have you ever read the Lord of the Rings?"

Now watch a possibly terrible idea in the making.

[watsonyourmind]

She thinks about it. "Yeah, I think so. At least part of it. Lots of dwarves wandering around, yeah?"

[element_wizard]

There's a twitch on Alec's face. The sort that a fan gets when a non-fan say something incredibly stupid.

"No. That's the Hobbit."

[watsonyourmind]

Jane is cheerfully oblivious. "Oh, right. Well, you know, dwarves, elves, hobbits, wizards, right? Standard fantasy fare. I know what you're talking about. I think I've met a few of them, come to think of it."

At least, that's what she assumed about that one bartender in the pointy hat. Otherwise he was making a really poor fashion choice.

[element_wizard]

Alec's inner fanboy is just screaming in incoherent rage. Blithering around and foaming at the mouth.

"Something like that," he says in mostly polite tones of voice. "I'm a wizard myself."

Walking around to a bowl of rings he fishes a few out. "In the Lord of the Rings there's a magical ring of power that can control all the other rings of power. It's called the One Ring. Inventive? Anyway these are the Other One Rings."

[watsonyourmind]

Well, that doesn't seem to make much sense. Watson takes a look. They're pretty, at least? She doesn't wear much jewelry, but there are a couple that appeal to her.

"They're the other rings of power, or other rings that control rings of power? What are rings of power, anyway?"

[element_wizard]

"The Other One Ring of Power. Capital letters, there. And how to explain this. Um. Every write fan fiction?"

Hello and welcome to this conversation taking an odd turn.

[watsonyourmind]

"I've read a bit," Watson admitted. She didn't spend a whole lot of time online, as a general rule, but after her injury, when she was holed up in bed healing, she had discovered all number of timewasters on the Internet. Including fanfiction.net. That was an interesting experience.

[element_wizard]

Ah, the pit of voles. Alec knows you well.

"And I'm sure, then, you've read those stories about the girl who finds herself in this world that belongs to her FAVORITE book, television show, movie etc and she's able to beat up the guy who's been a warrior for longer than she's been a live and she's got all those MAGICAL powers that really shouldn't exist...?"

[watsonyourmind]

"The girl who always has a suspiciously similar name to the author?" She laughs. "I thought about writing one of those once, but I think I missed the window."

[timegirl]

Mary is still completely enchanted by everything in Fairy, and this place is full of so many old, intriguing things that it gets her attention immediately. Each thing has such energy, such life, such history.

She can't help but drift in, quiet as ever, and start gazing around at the vast collection.

[element_wizard]

History is definitely something to be applied to the object's he's found. Tacky. What the hell is that and No. Really, someone actually made that. Are other things.

"Hi!" Alec calls out from behind the counter. "How are you?"