Chilly Boulder Ice Creamery - Sunday Afternoon

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora had promised Blysse that they would go out for ice cream together just because she had never tried ice cream and to Sora that just didn't see right! The three of them (Yes three. They couldn't leave Blind Seer out of it) stared at the display case at the vast array of flavors available to them.

If the man behind the counter seemed more than a little freaked to have a large wolf in the shop staring intently at the ice cream, he didn't show it. Much.

"Do you know what kind you might want to try first?" Sora asked, making sure the question was posed to both of his companions.

[Thread with sora for one person. Otherwise Chilly Boulder is available. Firekeeper and Blind Seer modded with permission.]

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[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Firekeeper was frankly... a little overwhelmed by the display. And had no clue what any of the little signs in front of the flavors said.

"I am thinking... strawberry?" she said hesitantly. Strawberries were in lots of desserts, she reasoned, so logically there should be some ice cream of that flavor.

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"Sure!" Sora smiled brightly. "Are there any other fruits that you like? They probably have it in ice cream form."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Blueberries is good," Firekeeper nodded. "Berries and fruits is not very wolfish thing to eat, but human-shape is needing them, so. I eat."

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora nodded agreeing with her. "Yeah... I don't think they'd have any meat flavored ice cream. But... maybe peanut butter?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"What is?" Yeah, she was getting a lot of use out of this phrase.

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"Well.. you're thinking something for Blind Seer right? Well my friend Goofy is a dog and he really likes Peanut Butter. Which is a paste made from nuts and it's sweet and umm... good?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Firekeeper glanced at Blind Seer. "Will try," she nodded, not bothering to point out that Blind Seer was most definitely not a dog.

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora knew that, he just wasn't well versed in the differences between the two.

"Okay, if he doens't like it we'll try something else!" Sora nodded to the man behind the counter who swiftly went around getting what they asked. "How about we try these first and then go back for more?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Sound good," Firekeeper nodded.

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

The man at the counter came back after a moment with a cone each for Blysse and Sora and a bowl of ice cream for the wolf.

"Should we sit down?" Sora asked as he grabbed his sea salt caramel ice cream.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Am thinking Blind Seer is not fitting on seat," Firekeeper said thoughtfully. "But can maybe sit nearby."

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"What about a booth?" He said looking over at the seats near the window and compairing their size to the wolf.

"Or we could jsut sit on the floor with him." Sora was the kinda guy who didn't want to leave people out, or animals.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Is allowed?" she asked dubiously. Not that she minded sitting on the floor, but she knew human conventions well enough to know it generally wasn't considered proper.

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"I think if we're sitting with Blind Seer people won't be questioning us," he grinned and moved over by one of the booths and plopped down on the floor to enjoy his ice cream.

"It's not like we'll be in the way or anything."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Good point," Firekeeper grinned back, watching Sora to see just how one was supposed to go about eating the ice cream.

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora was the kind of person who go for the sides first when eating ice cream, and licked at the side of the scoop while turning the con in his hand.

It was a method he had practiced over the years, though in his youth resulted in many fallen cones and tears.

"So can you understand what Blind Seer says?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Wolves," Firekeeper nodded, watching this process carefully. "Other beasts too, though Cousin-kind is..." she searched for the right word, "stupid. Not having much to say."

With that, she carefully mimicked Sora's method of ice-cream-cone-eating. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "Cold! And sweet!" Theoretically she'd known that's what ice cream would involve, from Sora's description, but when you come from a world without refrigeration, it's something of a surprise.

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"It's good huh?" Sora grinned more seeing her reaction to the ice cream. "It's really good when it's hot outside cause it will help you cool down," he explained and ate more of his own cone.

"So you can just speak their language then? Most of the Animals I know back home can just talk like regular humans so.." He shrugged.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"This, yes," Firekeeper nodded again. "Royal Beasts can learn to understand human words if they is caring to, but not really speak it. Is not having skill to make right mouth-shapes for human sounds."

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"So how do you understand him when he needs to tell you somthing?" He asked glancing between her and Blind Seer.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"He speak how Beasts speak," Firekeeper explained. "I speak this also, so I understand."

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"Wow," Sora said looking impressed. "That must have taken a really long time to learn!"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"I am not remembering time before I live with wolves, so, am not remembering learning how they is speaking," Firekeeper shrugged uncomfortably. "Learning human speaking was hard." And as might be clear from her strange way of speaking, she didn't quite have it down perfectly.

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Well that made sense. Sora jsut smiled and shrugged, not pressing any further since there didn't seem to be anything to tell.

"Do you both like your ice cream?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Firekeeper nodded. "Am," she confirmed. "Do you know how they is keeping it from melting?"

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"It's the coolers," he said pointing to the displays where all the bins of ice cream were. "They use electricity to keep everything cool like ice."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"So many things is different from where I growed up," Firekeeper commented. "There, ice is only in winter season."