The Magic Box, Friday

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Well, this was it, then. For better or for worse, Agnes would be going home soon, and this was her last day in the store.

She'd brought with her most of the things she'd bought from the store over the past few months, and spend the morning logging them back into inventory and putting them neatly on the shelves. After that, she wrote up a nice little note for Mr. Sunstrider thanking him for the job and asking that any unpaid wages she was due should be donated to charity or somesuch. After that, well... She busied herself by dusting. A place like this was ALWAYS in need of dusting.

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Karla rarely came into the Magic Box, but Zack had mentioned the possibility of getting spidersilk here and her stash was running low.

"Kiss kiss, Agnes," she said cheerfully, ducking into the store. "You're productive today."

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"Kiss kiss," Agnes replied with a smile. "I figured I might as well be productive today, since I won't be coming back. It's time for me to go home."

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Karla looked troubled. "Already?" she asked plaintively.

Karla, you're the one who arrived in May. Not Agnes. "But why?"

Someone had missed all the departures. She'd been a cat, then gone, and she hadn't really known any seniors anyway.

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Agnes shrugged. "The summer's over, so this is a good time for it. I've been here for over a year, after all, and there's a village back home that needs me."

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"I can understand that," Karla said quietly. "And you've got to go when your people need you."

That didn't bring up any issues for Karla at all...

"Do you think you'll be back for a visit?"

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"I... don't honestly know," Agnes answered. Then she gave a bittersweet smile. "I'll miss you, too."

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"I didn't say that!" Karla protested, but from her smile and the way she reached out to clasp Agnes's hands, it was obvious that she'd meant it. Agnes was the best person to argue with that she'd found in all of Fandom.

"I hope you'll at least come back for Homecoming," she said finally. "Remind me that I'm being too flashy."

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Agnes grinned and squeezed Karla's hands. "We'll see. You're not PLANNING on being too flashy at Homecoming, are you? Try not to overshadow everyone else."

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"Well, I'm not planning anything yet, but if that's what it takes..." Karla said, grinning. "I can handle overshadowing for an evening, if it's for a good cause."

After one last squeeze, Karla pulled her hands back and glanced around. "Do you carry spidersilk?"

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"We carry just about everything," Agnes answered. "Are you asking for... a fabric made from cobwebs? I think that's over against the wall there."

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"Spidersilk is usually milked directly from the spinnerets themselves. It isn't a fabric, it's the actual threads. I use it to spin my tangled webs," Karla explained with a smile. "There are people back home who make their living breeding and milking huge colonies of spiders back home."

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Agnes shuddered. "I suppose it's an alright profession for some," she said. "Thread should be next to the fabric. If you don't see what you need, I can order it."

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"If you order it, does that mean you have to stick around to get it delivered?" Karla teased as she made her way to the wall Agnes had pointed to. "Cause, if so, I'm not seeing any."

That might have been more believeable if Karla had actually made it to the wall before saying that.

As it was, there were several boxes of spidersilk, in varying colors even. Odd. Karla grabbed all of the undyed silk--which meant that Agnes would have to order more anyway--and, after a moment, grabbed a few lengths of the colored silks as well. Who knew if they'd have an effect on her webs or not? And, if nothing else, it didn't matter what color stitches were.