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Magic Box, Friday, 9/02

Okay. So Tara knew stuff at the shop would have changed while she took four months off. She just wasn't prepared for every single spell ingredient to be locked behind some kind of safety latch. The crystal display had changed too -- it was moved higher and with the crystals swaddled in bubble wrap. And while the candles were still where they always were, the lighters and matches sold with them were locked up and the few ceremonial weapons the shop carried were missing entirely.

Had there been an influx of evil sorcerers nobody had told her about? If there had been, it seemed as likely the sorcerers had put in the protective measures to flummox every witch on the island as it was that another employee had done this stuff to make the shop safer.

Tara went to find a stepladder in hopes of getting the Magic Box back into Wiccan-friendly conditions. Well, at least it wouldn't be a dull first day back...

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Who is having a strangely hard time finding scissors to cut open the wrappings.

It was a little difficult to get finding what you needed like this, wasn't it? Locks and packing material everywhere you looked.

Kate peered at a few things, then turned her attention on Tara. "What's with all the bubble wrap?"

"I know, it's horrible," Tara said apologetically (though with an undertone of irritation at the situation in her voice.). "I have no idea. It was just kind of ... here when I came in."

She sighed. "Um, the candles aren't wrapped. And the books. The books are fine."

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Kate nodded, glancing around the store. "So now, probably not the best time to restock?" she guessed, holding up her shopping list of basic herbs. She had a bit of a thing for being prepared for all eventualities, and things were dipping below the level she like.

"Not unless you can be really patient about all the locks and everything," Tara said. "I don't think there's a way to magic them off, so ... what do you want?"

She wandered over, trying to glance at the list.

She offered up the list. "Rosemary, water lily, knot weed... They're the main ones." Her all purpose defense back-up, because Kate was the paranoid sort when it came to keeping the bad things out of her space.

"There are probably ways to break the locks," she considered. "But you might not like what that'd do to your cupboards."

"Nice list," Tara commented, eyebrows darting up a bit. "Are you Wiccan?"

Rosemary for loyalty, water lily for persuasion, knotweed to bind someone. Her first thought was a love spell, but they were all fairly common elements.

She glanced over to the cabinets, still thinking about it. "I can probably get them all without wrecking the shelves," she said. "Give me ... five minutes? And, um, sorry if I curse. It's kind of annoying."

Kate found all of them worked their way into her wards in some form or other, or replenished what she kept on her for on the fly magical needs. Magic on the move, totally a legitimate need.

"Magical, not Wiccan," Kate clarified. Religion had never really sat well with her, she didn't like the idea of putting her trust in gods and goddesses. If you picked the wrong one, things could go bad fast. "And you can swear as much as you like. I would have started already if I was you." And she wouldn't have apologized for it either.

"You are Wiccan?" she guessed after a moment. It was the sort of question that made you assume as much, at least.

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Tara nodded. "I am, yeah. And there was swearing before I got a customer." Though not much; Tara wasn't really the type.

She was reaching over her head to fight with the locks on the herbal cabinet -- with only a little swearing under her breath -- when she added; "By the way, I'm Tara. You're ... new? New-ish?"

"Kate," she offered, wandering closer to peer at what Tara was doing. She had to smirk a little at the muttering. "Consider me one customer not put off by cursing."

"And more ish than new now," she replied. "Beginning of the summer."

"I was away all summer," Tara explained, as she pried off the seal around the lid of the rosemary with her fingernails and passed the jar down to Kate. "Before that ... I'd been here almost two years. Since I was a sophomore."

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