Pixie Dust, Tuesday

[withoutverona]

They were, apparently, in France, a hundred odd years after Romeo had last been there.

This called for a special. He poured himself a snifter of Grand Marnier (it tasted like oranges, which made it an acceptable morning drink) and set a sign out front of the store reading:

SALE!
FRENCH DESIGNERS
20% OFF
Nous avons les meilleures modes moderne.
ENTREZ!

Pixie Dust was open. Frenchily.

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Mod your shopping [5/20]

[withoutverona]

C'mon in.

Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

Entertain him when he's not in class.

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Could you please direct me to the costumes, or the styles from other worlds perhaps, Romeo?"

Normally, he only came by the store at all to say hello to the other boy, but today he had a mission so, forgive him, he was a bit brusque.

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

Romeo had to consider that for a moment. It wasn't really Tink's area of interest, or his own, but he knew they had a few wizarding cloaks and the like. "I think they would be on those racks, to your left," he directed, pointing. "And if you show me what you want I might be able to find more."

[OOC: Link me to the kind of thing you want and I'll do my best? Or just mod.]

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He nodded, gave a somewhat sheepish smile of thanks, and ducked into the racks.

"I should be able to find it," he said from behind the row of clothes. "But thank you. I'm sorry to be rushing. I've just had a bit of... a change in plans forced on me and I'm a little flustered."

He pulled out something that was almost there (http://images.broadwayworld.com/columnpic/ndwicked%20wizard.jpg) but not quite. Not bright enough.

"How are you, Romeo? If you don't mind me asking. I haven't seen you for a time."

His focus was on the clothes, but it was obvious that he did want to know.

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

"I don't mind working speedily," Romeo assured Liir as he assessed the outfit he was holding up, then rummaged in the rack. "What about this, or this, or even ... well, this is certainly bright, if nothing else."

He gave a tiny shrug at Liir's question. "I was called home last weekend. Family business."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Something like the last one," he said absently. "And would you happen to stock bags?" He'd need a carpet bag to keep his change of clothes and a couple of supplies.

To the answer, he nodded.

"I'm heading home myself. Family business also. Certainly understandable."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

"We have it in yellow, blue and red as well as the green," Romeo told Liir. "Not so sure on the sizes, but one should suit you."

He moved his mouth to the side, considering. "We have purses, nothing much larger," he said apologetically. "The general store might be your better bet for a suitcase, as much as I hate giving up business."

"I hope your visit home goes well."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"The blue might be the best bet," he said with a faint nod. "And I'm sure I can do a bit of a quick fix if there's an issue with fit."

He breathed out.

"And thank you for letting me know where I might find what I need."

He leaned against a convenient wall.

"I hope so as well. It will be my first time back since I came here."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

Romeo took the blue suit in his best guess at Liir's size to the counter to wrap. "It was my first visit home as well," he said, skipping over the whole banishment part. "The astounding part was how much hadn't changed, compared to the few things that had. One thinks things will fall apart in one's absence, yet the void of any one man is filled quickly enough."

He was talking too much. "Though your experience may differ."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice hesitated by the doorway. Pixie Dust, one might expect that it sold large amounts of various concoctions and elixirs, ones with arcane and magical purposes. From the looks of it, it was rather a clothing shop.

She entered, staring at the many strange and colorful tops and bottoms and dresses. Perhaps her first impression hadn't been so far off. Clothes were rather transformative.

Curious, indeed. She offered a hesitant smile to the boy at the counter, and tugged slightly on her pinafore before remembering not to fidget, and clasping her hands behind her.

"Hello," she smiled. "I believe I need your assistance."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

"Hello indeed," Romeo smiled at the girl, ignoring the pinafore for the moment. "What sort of assistance would you like?"

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice remembered her manners, then, and dropped him a proper curtsy.

"I'm horribly out of date," she explained. "Which is to be expected when one is moved a century or two at a moment's notice. I don't object to being anachronistic, and I shouldn't like to traipse about half-nude as it seems a number of people here enjoy doing."

Alice was, of course, still very Victorian.

"All the same, I've seen girls wearing trousers, and some very simple cotton blouses with them, and I must admit ..." Victorian enough to blush, at the coming revelation. "They look quite comfortable. Is that really acceptable here?"

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

Romeo nodded his head in a brief bow to match the curtsy. "Aye, leaping 'cross time and space is more than excuse enough for some peculiarities of wardrobe," he said, sympathetically. "We've clothes that would suit the fashion without being overly revealing. Did you want pants and blouses only, or would you like a skirt, or some shorts...?"

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Did you perhaps make a similar jump?" Alice asked, tilting her head at him with some amusement. "You'll forgive my forwardness, but you speak differently than most of those I've met here."

He would sound formal even in Wonderland; perhaps a high advisor of the Queen's, framing her edicts in a proper tongue and carrying them from village to town.

She blushed once more, and felt a bit childish for it. "It seems odd, to be wandering around showing off one's legs. Considering the summer, it may be pleasant, and I don't suppose I'm any great beauty that people would be stopping to stare at my legs to start. Legs are commonplace enough here to escape notice, it would seem. Perhaps some of those, as well, then." If they weren't too terribly short, and if she could convince herself she wasn't wandering around town half-clothed.

She frowned down at her feet. "I might perhaps do well to get new shoes, for that matter." She loved her boots, but they were rather black and large and laced-up, and seemed not quite the thing to wear with a light summery top and some of those dark blue trousers girls had. For one, the boots themselves came to her knees.

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

People in Fandom were mostly so used to the way he talked (or if not, too polite to mention it) that it took Romeo a half-second to remember what Alice was referring to. "Not a different time, just a different place. I'm far closer to the norm than I used to be," he said, with some amusement. "What time are you from?"

As he waited for her answer, he walked toward the corner of the store where Tink stored most of the plainer clothes. "These may suit you," he said. "Or the jeans on those racks. And shoes are in the back of the tore."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"I meant no offense," she said hurriedly, cursing her own tendency to place her foot in her mouth and have a good chew. "I only hoped that I mightn't be the only traveler so thoroughly misplaced. I suppose the aliens have one on me for that, I have at least stayed on my own planet. So far as we know. Considering there seem to be multiple Earths, I may not have."

Alice flipped through the racks, browsing with some curiosity. Soft cottons and rayons, simple blouses with round necks, khaki short-legged trousers and skirts. They seemed so light and easy. She must return, when she had more money; one shift didn't allow her much by way of shopping funds.

"Two weeks ago, I was in an asylum, in England, in 1873," she said, pulling out a dark green short-sleeved shirt which had long white sleeves underneath it. This was very nice, indeed.

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

After third period, Yurika returned with Romeo to the shop, still amused by today's topic. "I am so going to fail this class," she joked, "I just don't blend well."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

"I think the trick is not finding yourself at a children's party or in a group of men," Romeo suggested, plopping their bags of sandwiches down on the counter. "At least Aly didn't tell you to wear more makeup."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I could make you into a very pretty girl," Yurika teased. "A little hair dye, the right top... no one would ever know it was you."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

Romeo pouted at her. "Except that I'm past six feet tall. And are you putting a padded bra on me?"

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Aw, you'd be pretty!" She smiled brightly and poked at his side. "You've got those lovely eyes, the boys would eat you up!"

"Besides, there's tall girls!" she protested, drawing herself up to her full 5'8". "We wouldn't have to give you a heavily padded bra, just enough to hint at something. It's not the dress-up that would be hard, it would be changing your walk."

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[withoutverona]

Romeo turned to consider himself in a mirror. "We'd have to wax my eyebrows, as well as coach me in movement," he pointed out, then flailed a little. "Why are we talking as though I would ever do this?"

Re: Shop with Romeo [5/20]

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Dōjima giggled and grabbed her sandwich. "For Halloween, maybe? I was just trying to help. Honest." Really. Watching him flail wasn't part of it at all.

OOC [5/20]

[withoutverona]

I should be around most of today.