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Things Reborn, Sunday

Ben set up a display in the store with the sign: "LAST MINUTE CRUISE WEAR: 20% OFF!"

Between some of the goofy-looking Hawaiian shirts, the vintage swimwear that was still on display in the window, and the like, Things Reborn was pretty well stocked for people going on the trip.

And tomorrow, Ben would need to take all of this stuff down because it was still February out here.

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"You're impossible," noted Daisy, admiringly.

"I prefer 'exceedingly difficult,'" Ben said. "But that's just because two words are better than one."

"I'm a bit of a fan of brevity, to be honest."

"To be fair, I do like to talk a lot," Ben said. "More words help me with that."

"Can't argue that," Daisy allowed. "I've noticed that liking to talk is a common trait around here."

"Of course. What would we do all day if we didn't have conversations to keep us entertained?" Ben asked.

"Chinese checkers?" offered Daisy.

That was starting to become her solution to everything these days.

"That could work," Ben said. "It wouldn't have been my first choice, but it works."

"What would have been your first choice, then?"

"Interpretive dance," Ben said. "If you're good at that, you can say just as much but without any words at all."

"I'd ask if you were any good at interpretive dance," said Daisy, "but I have a feeling that there's probably a reason you like talking so much."

"I actually used to be really shy and didn't talk much at all," Ben said. Okay. Technically that was Peter. Peter had been much more social by the time Ben was cloned from him. He was running with it anyway. "But then once I started, I found it very hard to stop. I blame society."

"Blame?" asked Daisy, laughing a little. "But it's a good thing! Sure, the shy, quiet thing can be really cute, but it can only get you so far if you don't talk."

"You just described my life through the first year of college," Ben said.

"Awwwww!" said Daisy, chuckling, because how could she not be expected to think that was just the cutest thing ever?

"What'd you go to school for?"

"I was a science major," Ben said. "It's kind of a jump from science to thrift shop, I know."

"Just a little, yeah," agreed Daisy. "Can't imagine you get to use that a lot around here."

"Not really," Ben said. "But if anyone ever needs an expert in both chemistry and vintage clothing, I'll be ready."

"And I'll know where to go should I need one."

"I'm completely open for police consulting gigs on either of those fronts, by the way," Ben said.

"I'm sure the vintage clothing bit would be especially helpful there,"Daisy joked, her grin wry, before she lightly shook her head. "But, really, I'll keep that in mind, if there's ever really anything that would call for it to happen around here..."

"I think I can guarantee that it won't be this week," Ben said. "With half the town gone, it's going to have to be dead at the station this week. If you need Chinese checkers to keep everyone entertained, I think I have a set somewhere."

"I'm half hoping," Daisy admitted, "that some trouble might spark up because the trouble's been waiting for a quiet week where it won't be expected. And I've got my own Chinese checkers, but thanks. Isn't there always a risk that not all the pieces will be there if you buy 'em second-hand, anyway? There's always some missing."

"Are you suggesting that I'm trying to sell an incomplete product?" Ben asked, his face showing how SHOCKED he was at such an implication.

"Of course not!" Daisy responded. "I'd never. I'm simply implying that there's just a way with these sorts of things, is all. Something far beyond anyone's power to prevent."

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