fandomtownies | The Magpie Emporium; Friday [05/02].

Today, the Magpie Emporium's best customer was going to be the person who was working there. It was Graham's last day, and he was going to take advantage of it before he left to stock up on all sorts of things he'd been eying. He had a list. He was going to have to go back and get Triumph to help him carry all this stuff back with him. But he had a lot of great plans for his little knightly tabletop group, and some board games for when the guards had downtime (ha! Bored games!), some to bring home to his sisters that he thought they would like, too...

And it was a little sad having to think that his little return had come to its end so quickly again, but he was really, really excited about what lied ahead. Who knew? Maybe even King Edward would like a board game or two, or some shiny dice, or some cute little plushies. If they had a war board, he could populate his ranks with awesome minis!

Finishing one chapter was always a little sad, but the nice thing was that there was always another chapter following it, and who knew what one would find in those next pages?

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"Sir Knight," Belle said solemnly. "It has come to my attention this may be your final shift."

"How are you celebrating your final day in the shop? Adventure games? Pocket potatoes? Games about potatoes? Those exist, surely?"

"My lady," said Graham, giving Belle a small, somewhat sad smile back as he ducked his head and doffed his cap. "There's no may about it. It is my final shift. I'm mostly just stocking up on things for home. And there actually are a lot of potato games! There's of course the classic Mr. Potato Head," which was more of a toy than a game, but that was beside the point, "but there's games you can play with potatoes, like Catch or Bobbing for Potatoes or carving them, too, or, ooh, some sort of version of Pictionary, but with carving answers out of potatoes. Potatoary! Spud-rades! Let's see," he tapped his chin a little, looking around the shop, "there's Because Potatoes and there's Math'd Potatoes, there's Patata! and you definitely can't forget Potato Pirates! There's even a Potato Man! And probably a lot more than I'm forgetting."

The fact that he even knew so many potato games, though....

"Whatever will I do without you to introduce me to such things?" Belle asked, a little sadly but still smiling.

"Perhaps should we play a potato game? Or something more adventurous?"

"I don't think it gets much more adventurous," Graham pointed out, leaning forward with a little bit of an eager grin, "than Potato Pirates. It's a card game, too, so it's pretty easy to play and get into, if you really wanted to play something. It does sound like a good way to spend my last day here at the store. Or I could whip up some kind of potato-centric one-shot! Maybe there's a kingdom that needs saving from a plague of potato bugs!"

"I would be honored to save the Kingdom of Spuds with you, " Belle told him. "But I don't want you going to extra trouble on my behalf."

"Not at all!" Graham insisted, and he was already pulling some dice out of a pocket. "It isn't any extra trouble at all! I love making up this sort of thing on the fly. And it's not like I have to worry about not getting any work done. What's the worst that could happen?" He gave her a crooked sort of grin. "Steph fires me?"

"You might be forced to leave in disgrace!" Belle cried in mock dismay. "That would be terribly unbecoming of a knight."

She smiled back at him.

"We'll simply have to create some sort of ruse if she comes in. Perhaps pretend I'm a customer and you're explaining a game to me... perhaps trying to get me to purchase some dice?"

"I don't know how convincing that would be," Graham said with a chuckle. "Who needs to be convinced to buy dice?"

This man had a problem, and half his visits back to the island would be because he was just jonesing for shiny new math rocks.

"I might need persuading," Belle said. "You never know!"

The Magpie Emporium; Friday [05/02].

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