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Turtle & Canary; Monday [ 09/21 ].

After the dimension lag that she was feeling yesterday, Turtle had decided (slightly inspired by her chat with Leto) to just take it easy at work today and keep things relaxed and fun.

So she was doing inventory.

What? Inventory was totally fun.

There was also a sale on ice cream, since it seemed incredibly popular lately.

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She's a geek about inventory, sure, but she'd much rather be talking to and helping customers. Or even just catching up with people who aren't buying things, although, really, it's a store, guys. With stuff. To buy.

Sale on ice cream? Hrm. Wouldn't transport well. Maybe some for herself, after she finished shopping.

"Hi," she told Turtle, smiling a bit awkwardly. "This is ... kinda strange, but ... I'm gonna need some groceries."

She glanced around the aisles. "... Make that a lot."

"No problem at all," Turtle said, feeling a surge of excitement for a big sale, but curiosity made her tilt her head. "Why is that strange, though? People gotta eat."

"They're not for me," Elena said, flushing slightly. "It's ... some holiday I can't pronounce, for a religion I don't follow, and ... you're supposed to send food to people, I guess, and I know some people who kinda ... need food."

Yeah. Totally weird, viewed in that light.

"Oh!" Turtle's eyes widened, an interested spark lighting up behind them. "So you're donating them to the needy! If that's the case, definitely. Grab a cart or two, we'll fill them up, and I'll even give you a nice percentage off on it, if it's going to a good cause."

Taaaaaaax write-ooooooff! Well, as a benefit. Turtle did like helping people; she couldn't help that there were just so many benefits to doing so.

"You will?" Elena asked, eyes lighting up. "Do you think you could help me box everything? I'm gonna have to mail them -- so perishables are out, which is a damn shame. Nobody's had fresh fruit or anything like that in a long time, they have to be sick of dry starchy shit."

On the one hand, people that were starving weren't fussy, but on the other, it'd be so amazing to send something like fruit to a dying city like Edge.

She'd had lamb today, and plenty of Edge residents were transplants from the same dark slums she'd grown up in. Having food at all wasn't something people took for granted, there.

"There's always canned fruit," Turtle offered with a nod, already heading toward the groceries with a cart. "Not the same as fresh, but better than dry starchy...stuff. And so we'll have to remember to include some can openers in the boxes, too. We've got loads of packing boxes you can use, too."

"Canned fruit," Elena nodded. "Sounds good, if it doesn't need to be refrigerated. I can try mailing it super-high priority and hope that means it'll only be a day or so, right?"

Now was a good time to fetch a cart. One that had at least most of the wheels pretending to go in the same direction.

"Can't hurt to include some of the dry stuff, too. I mean, it's still better than nothing, and that's what some of these people have."

Reno was walking up and down the streets, handing out beans to orphaned kids. Edge was not exactly rolling in prosperity.

"Nope! No refrigeration needed!" Turtle assured her. "And a variety is definitely what we want. Too much of one thing will be bad for their already poor nutrition. Oh! We should include some sporks, too, to help them eat it!"

"I think we're set, on utensils," Elena said, glancing over the rows again. "More or less. I mean, people had some, from before, it's just the food that's ... missing? I guess it couldn't hurt, though.

Midgar had been the hub for many supply routes. Ones that were not being diverted elsewhere, and not bothering to stop near Edge.

"I'm worried I'm going to ... pick something wrong, have someone get sick, and it'll be my fault for not knowing better."

Elena was not very good at this, no.

"You can't go wrong with more sporks," Turtle decided with a nod.

It was now a thing.

"But what do you think will make them sick? They're getting really quality stuff if they're getting it from here, you know. And I guess if they're not used to quality stuff, then it might not agree with them, but if they're starving, anyway, than no food is still worse for them than potentially sick-causing food..."

Pause.

"Right?"

"Oh, it's not that," Elena said quickly, picking up a box of noodles and tossing it into her cart. "I mean, I know you sell good food here, I mean -- I'm scared that I'll get something that's a little perishable, and then the box gets delayed and bounced around like crazy, and by the time it gets there, it's gone bad. I'm just ... worrying needlessly, about all the stupid details."

The enormity of what was wrong in Edge would do that.

"Well," Turtle said, hoping to sound reassuring, "it should be easy to focus on just non-perishables. I've seen this before, actually. People come from so many different worlds here, and, every once in a while, you get someone who just sort of boggles at how much food there actually is in this one. There's a lot of options, thankfully, and stuff that won't go bad for years. If you still think it'll be bounced around that much, you can always include information. All the food is marked with expiration dates, so you just have to figure out how that'd translate to your own calendar, and then put up a nice warning that's all, 'hey, if it's passed this date, this might not be good anymore, FYI!'"

BOOO MONDAY.

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