Blackstone Foundry and Forge; Wednesday [02/05].

[special_rabbit]

Although Amaya was not particularly a fan of the mushy holiday that she knew was coming up, she was a businesswoman, and knew that it may be mushy, but it could also be lucrative, and so there she was, dragging out the big sandwich board to place out in front of the shop before getting to work on a good, decent stock of what she hoped would be a popular draw for people who didn't want to waste their money on flowers and wanted to buy something cool instead.

No offense, Seivarden.

Flowers fade, but Steel is STRONG!
Say How You Feel this Valentine's Day with Metal Roses!
Bouquet Specials!
Also, it's not too late to get in your SPECIAL ORDERS!
Custom, Unique, One of a Kind Blades, Spikes, Armor, and MORE!

(Sorry, No Anonymous Gifts)

She'd definitely learned her lesson from last year.

And then she got to work with forging and hammering out some steel roses so that, hopefully, by next week, she'd have plenty and, hopefully, by next week, she'll have sold most of them, too.

The Forge is open!

Caritas; Wednesday [02/05]

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Yeaaaaahhhhh," said Summer, "how about we just not talk today?"

Tino may have just tried workshopping his wet sweatshirt idea with Summer, somehow thinking she might be slightly more receptive to the idea than Kitty had been.

"Or," she offered, "how about this? How about today, you just try and see if you can only communicate with me via telepathy? You know, just using your mind. You should try it. I bet you could do it, but you'll definitely need to practice by not talking and just trying to send me mind messages, okay? Worth a try, right?"

She realized that this had the potential to backfire if Tino actually could pull it off, but she was willing to bet, like, several farms that he wouldn't.

Wednesday Jello Shot Special!
Mimosa

Caritas is open!

Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [02/05].

[sake_shinigami]

Apu had been complaining about the Squishy machine not working properly, but Shunsui honestly couldn't see what the problem was.

"Those seem like perfectly normal Squshy flavors to me, Apu-san..."

Apparently, that was the point, and he went on to explain that they shouldn't be, because of something to do with shadows? And the whole thing made absolutely no sense, and Shunsui was starting to wonder if maybe Apu was finally beginning to crack.

"Well," he proposed, trying to sound judicious about the whole thing, "how about, if the..err...problem persists through tomorrow, then I will go ahead and call Movie Class-chan to come have a look at it, neh? You know I am always delighted to have her company, but I can assure you, and I know you'll agree, if we drag her out here to look at the machine and there's actually nothing wrong with it, then we'll have problems far greater than a faulty Squishy machine on our hands ♥."

Which just meant that Apu was tempted to just call Amaya himself, because there was something clearly wrong with it, how could Shunsui not see it???

Today's Squishy Flavors
Grape
Blue Raspberry
Red

Turtle & Canary is open!

Pixie Dust (formerly Demon Marcus), Wednesday

[that_oldsaying]

"It goes on and on and it's all mine!"

Years ago she'd found the paperwork that had revealed that the old name of the shop had been Pixie Dust and while Sparkle had never seemed to mind being named after a demon… Alluka was definitely going with the cuter name which meant that Demon Marcus was out and Pixie Dust was back in.

Alluka set Mr. Bubbles, her giraffe, down on the counter and looked around at her shop with big eyes.

It was overwhelming but in a good way? She remembered Kathy walking her through what money even was, just a few years ago, and now she owned a shop… Alluka looked around at the racks and racks of clothes, at the fitting rooms, at the shoes, and purses, and gloves and just so much more and took a deep breath, feeling both very young and very grown up all at once.

"Okay!" she said to Mr. Bubbles. "We've got a lot of work to do, so let's get started! First we'll start with tea and snacks and then we'll change the sign and then we'll start by giving the whole place a really good clean and then we'll start with inventory…"

Mr. Bubbles didn't answer her but just saying it out loud to him made her feel a bit more centered. While she knew that Dante and Kathy and Ringo would have done anything they could to help her, she'd wanted to try and do this herself, first, so she hadn't told them ahead of time. She'd managed to come up with the plan to buy the shop, pay for it, and get the keys all by herself. She could do this. She could.

"Let's get to it!"

Pixie Dust is Open! (And under new management!)

[And Alluka is back on the island! Open and OCD free!]