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Turtle & Canary; Thursday [ 11/29 ]

As delicious and poisonfree as it had been, Turtle Wexler was determined to not let anymore more surprise cakes slip under her radar. Before opening the store, Turtle had re-angled the the security cameras to certain, helpful angles and fed the feed into her laptop so she could see all of them at once while at the counter.

Also, the "Help Wanted" sign had promptly been replaced with one that read "Now Hiring."

No one could ever accuse Turtle of never learning from her mistakes.

Today's Squishy flavors: Pumpernickel, Pony Cake, Grape Judas

Turtle & Canary is open!

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There for the modding.

If you can get her to stop watching the video feed, but at least that means that she does know you're there.

She didn't need cameras to tell when Jeff was in the shop, really. The dashing and the loud "TURTLE!" tended to help quite enough in that regard.

"I brought sandwiches!" Pause. "...Are you watching me?"

Oooh, sandwiches. There was a little lift of Turtle's eyebrow in indication of her satisfaction with that offering, although her eyes stayed trained on the laptop for a moment. "Well, technically," she stared, attempting to drag her eyes away, "I'm watching the store. The fact that you're in the store," she finally managed to get her gaze away and settled on Jeff, "means that, currently, yeah. I am watching you."

He put the sandwiches on the counter-- meekly. "...You're a secret watcher?" Jeff asked, nervously.

"Obviously it's not secret," Turtle offered, "if you know that I'm doing it. It's just so that no one trying to secretly leave cakes again."

"There was a secret cake?" Funny how all of these questions were coming out in the exact same tone of voice. "Did you eat it?" Jeff was serious, now.

"Some of it," Turtle gave a small nod. "It was a big cake. I made Apu eat some it first, though, to make sure it wasn't poisoned."

And this talk of eating things had Turtle eying the sandwiches on the counter.

"You ate the secret cake." Jeff, on the other hand, was entirely distracted from anything sandwich-related and leaning with all due worry on the counter. "Are you all right?"

Turtle frowned at Jeff. "Yeah, I'm fine," she said. "I had Apu test it; it wasn't poisoned or anything, and it's not like it's even that random. I mention wanting cake all the time on radio..."

"Are you sure?" Because what this shop needed was more paranoia. "It's a secret cake, Turtle," Jeff went on, unconsciously pushing the sandwiches further onto the counter, "Even if it's harmless, that means someone's done something wrong. People never give secret cakes for no reason."

And that push toward more paranoia had Turtle's stomach starting to hurt a little bit, but, of course, as she frowned and her hand drifted over it, she didn't think it was the paranoia so much as perhaps the cake after all. "But..then...if they already did something wrong, what is there to worry about? It's already been done?"

"But what if it's something really awful?" Jeff had his own ideas about what 'really awful' entailed, but really, 'awful' was awful, one way or another.

Turtle was quiet for a moment, as she was thinking. Sure, she mentioned the cakes and ponies on radio before, but it had to be inspired somewhere. She knew there was a reason; she just had to remember it and then she'd probably know what it was. For now, she still frowned at Jeff. "What do you think it might have been?"

"I don't know," Jeff offered, helplessly. He sagged a little on the counter, which meant the sandwiches had suddenly become an entity in his field of vision again. "Have you said anything weird to anyone lately? Has anyone said anything to you that's-- off? Looked in your general direction? 'Cos sometimes that's enough cause for secret cakes."

He was the king of paranoia.

Turtle's eyes shifted a little to the side, her frown taking on something more sad than worried. Yeah. She could only really think of one thing that'd really been off in the past few weeks, and he'd gotten a pony cake for Rikku, too, hadn't he? That's what gave her the whole idea, when she mentioned it. She drew in a breath, shaking her head lightly.

"I really don't think it's anything you should be worried about, Jeff. Really..."

"Are you really, absolutely sure?" he repeated, with a sense of urgency. "'Cos I'm sure there's somewhere you can hide."

Turtle nodded slowly, but confidently, although the downcast eyes remained. "Positive. Really, Jeff."

He nodded. Just as slowly. "...Sandwiches?" Jeff offered, non-sequituring in tone as well as subject as he hopped straight back to 'enthusiastic'.

"Sandwiches," Turtle agreed with a nod of her head, before it then shook slightly as she reached for one to unwrap it. "I swear, you're like the poster boy for bipolar, Jeff..."

Jeff paused. "Is my head being round again?" he asked, worriedly. "'Cos I thought it stopped doing that when I hit my growth spurt last year."

Turtle's mouth opened to respond, but then it closed when she realized she didn't exactly know how to respond and she just shook her head. "...What?"

Sometimes, it really was just best to ask. Then again, this was Jeff, and she realized that asking didn't necessarily mean getting an answer that was any easier to understand.

"You said I was bipolar," Jeff explained. Helplessly. "...You said bipolar. Sorry, I thought you might've been referring to the ice caps." He laughed nervously. "Easy mistake. My head isn't round at all! It's sort of..." Pause. "...Oval."

Turtle blinked; ohhhh! See? It did help to ask. She nodded a little. "Hard to tell with the hair, but, yeah, I'd say oval, too. Definitely not round," she said with firm assurance.

Another three to midnight shift tonight, so SP after three is love!!

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