[Shieba]

Even the areas close to most of the exits of Terrace Park were currently rather empty. Everyone was searching for eggs or waiting for slots near the table which was used for signups. So when a portal opened up at what was pretty much the opposite side of the park, there was no one around to notice. Morwena, naturally, went through it first to make sure it was safe to use before her Dear followed her. Seeing the blue sky and green grass again, she quickly exited the magical gateway between worlds. "Oh! It looks like really close to no time has passed! How remarkable!" She was glad to be in a more colorful world again, that was for sure.

"Indeed. Let us hope that our internal clocks are not too much messed up." Bentner had enough sleeping problems, the last thing he needed was his sleeping cycle in disarray. He followed Morwena through the portal and then turned around, waiting if Tia or Yoshi would follow through.

[MillietheWarrior]

Tia stepped first through the portal, her arms folded serenely across her stomach, and her face, or what little of it was visible, impassive. The portal she’d managed to open (With quite a bit of power draining on her part, she’d have to add, but would never admit aloud) was in a relatively secluded place. Either that, or there just wasn’t anyone visiting this area of the park. Being that she’d had to force the portal open, she didn’t have much control over where it had opened at so she was grateful that there wasn’t anyone around to see it. She turned, partially, to the smaller figure that scuttled out after her, big blue eyes wide and round as she surveyed the park. Yoshi had been adamant about coming along to visit the human world, but Tia was fairly certain that the child-like Hollow had more up her proverbial sleeves than that. Well, she reflected, at least she looked relatively normal, so she wouldn’t draw any suspicion. Tia glanced at Bentner and Morwena; these two would draw enough attention to themselves just based on their clothing, so Yoshi would be second fiddle to any curiosity.

“Wow, Halibel-sama. Look at how big this park is!” Yoshi, of course, hadn’t traveled to this particular place before. She’d been to a lot of strange places and worlds, but of course, she’d be amazed at a park, of all things. Tia resisted the urge to roll her eyes, but smiled nonetheless. “Indeed.” She turned towards Bentner and Morwena, and nodded at their hands, where the bracelets hung. “What I said holds true; should you need our assistance, you need only ask. I hope that I have brought you to an adequate distance from your home here in Evelon.” Yoshi bounced around, her arms out at her sides as she twirled and laughed in the sunlight. “I am afraid it is time for me to take my leave. I am not entirely welcomed in this world, so it’s best if I don’t linger.” Her eyes shifted meaningfully to Yoshi, but she said nothing more as she inclined her head and stepped back through the portal. Yoshi bounced up to Morwena and Bentner, taking one of each of their hands in her own and lifting them to wave goodbye. “Bye, Halibel-sama! See you later! I’ll look after them, don’t you worry!” She glanced up at her two unwitting ‘victims,’ and smiled brightly. “So, where are we going first?”

[Shieba]

Bentner inclined his head at Tia, ignoring the cheerful Yoshi for the moment. "Thank you so kindly for all you have done and offered for and to us. We are deeply grateful. It is rare to find such hospitality and friendship from someone one just met." He was about to add a goodbye when he suddenly got his hand grabbed by Yoshi. Morwena, on the other side of the girl, just giggled and waved, while Bentner had to suppress a sigh. He hadn't expected Yoshi to stay. Right now, he just wanted to go home - the day had been so far draining and unplanned enough for his tastes, no matter how good the outcome had been.

Morwena could, as always, tell in what mood her Dear was in. She, too, was surprised that Yoshi was staying, but she could also guess that her Dear wouldn't want to bring Yoshi back to their world right now. There was no question that the girl would show up sooner or later anyway, but there was no reason to actively encourage her to cling to the two of them. "Well, deary, there is a supermarket not far from here. If my suspicion is right, we should be able to get your silver foil there, maybe even quite a bit. I can show you and if I'm right, you'll then know where to get all the foil you want in the future." If they managed to get Yoshi enough foil, there was a good chance that the girl would go back home and decorate her whole room with it, as she had announced before. Morwena beamed when Bentner nodded at her, very much approving of her plan.

[MillietheWarrior]

“Of course,” Tia replied, her eyes crinkling in the faintest of smiles as her gaze darted between the three of them. “Look after yourselves. We will be…checking in, so to speak, from time to time.” Her gaze landed on Yoshi meaningfully, as if to say that Yoshi would be the one ‘checking in’ and chuckled. She lifted one hand in a wave as the portal closed before her, shutting off Hueco Mundo from the rest of the human world and leaving behind Yoshi and the two travelers. Meanwhile, Yoshi was still giggling, right up until the moment Morwena mentioned tin foil.

Her eyes grew steely and determined, her face shining with surprise and delight. “Oh really?!” she cried, sounding far too excited about foil than was possible. “YAY!” She abruptly released Bentner’s hand and tugged on Morwena’s with both of her own. “Let’s go, let’s go! Do you think they have a store just for tin foil?” Her eyes shone with ideas. “If they don’t, they really should start one! It would be such an amazing place! But then, I can’t see why anyone would sell their precious foil. It should be HOARDED AND KEPT FOR ALL TIME!” The last sentence was said with such assuredness and conviction, that it was almost intimidating.

[Shieba]

Bentner had no doubts that at least Yoshi would be checking in quite a bit - which could really turn out to be a blessing or a curse. Having a powerful, ancient being with an extensive collection of magical items as a friend would be truly beneficial, but having said being disturb their routine at the oddest of times would be bad, especially since he and Morwena had to keep a low profile.

Morwena was glad when Yoshi released Bentner's hand - her Dear didn't like to be touched much - and then kind of struggled for words. Yoshi was very adorable in her own way, but also pretty scary. "I don't think there's a store just for tin foil, but maybe someone in the store knows where it is made? There has to be a place like that - where all the foil is and from where it then get send out to all the shops. But really, first we have to find the foil. Let's go, deary; I don't want you to explode with excitement. We'll see how much it costs when we find it."

Bentner nodded at them. "I shall remain here until you return." Hopefully, 'you' would only mean Morwena. "It's best if we keep a bit of a low profile even here, after all, and stay apart from each other in crowds." Keeping a low profile with Yoshi in tow when searching for foil was seemingly impossible, after all.

"Of course, Dear!" Morwena nodded. One reason more to hurry - she didn't want to be away from her Dear for long. "Come on, deary!" She kept Yoshi's hand in hers and turned towards the exit of the park. There weren't many trees there, so that the stores on the other side of the street were already visible, even from a distance. "See the one there which says 'supermarket'? With the red sign? I think we might get lucky there."

[MillietheWarrior]

“Do humans explode with excitement?” Yoshi asked immediately, a mental image of a human blowing up like a bomb from being too excited over tin foil running through her mind. “No wonder you live such short lives.” She was distracted from her amusing mental imagery when Bentner spoke. “Oh yes, you old humans need your rest.” She patted his hand, as though comforting him for being so old and wanting to stay behind. “You rest your old bones, and we shall find foil,. And bring it BACK TO SHOW YOU!” She jumped on the spot, pumping one fist into the air determinedly.

But her free hand was still caught in Morwena’s, so when the woman took off, she was dragged haphazardly along until she managed to gain her footing. “Supermarket?” Yoshi repeated. “So it’s a market. But it’s super. As opposed to an amazing market? Or an adequate market?” Her blue eyes were wide with intrigue as she took in the sights of the town, zeroing in on the supermarket where the precious foil was kept. Oh, she could already see the shiny-ness she would enjoy once she was able to get all that foil in her grasp. “How do you get tin foil, Miss Morwena? Do you buy it? I hear humans use money. I don’t have money. But maybe they’ll donate it to us!”

[Shieba]

"No, deary, but they can faint if they get very overwhelmed with feelings", Morwena explained. "Like when I saw my Dear for the first time!" She sighed, lost in the memory, until Yoshi actually called Bentner - who just very slightly narrowed his eyes - 'old'. "Deary! My Dear is not old! Old humans sit around all day, unable to move anymore and they drool on themselves and ramble about bygone times! My Dear does nothing of that sort! He isn't that old! Just a bit older than me!" Morwena told Yoshi with the same conviction and assuredness that the girl had shown before when it came to tin foil. "Besides that, after drinking the potion you gave us, my Dear will now still live a very long time - for a human, that is." She beamed.

Bentner just sighed at them both. "Just go, the two of you. And get that...foil, I suppose." A few minutes of peace and quiet would do him good. There was only so much time he could spend around hyperactive children and Morwena, who was just as bad, without needing a rest.

"Uhm..." When it came to the supermarket, Morwena had very little ideas herself why it was called that. "I'm not really sure myself, but maybe humans call it that because there is a super-huge amount of different things in there that you can buy. In the larger ones, at least. And well, I have a bit of money, so if the foil isn't all that expensive, I'll buy some for you. After all, you gave us such wonderful items, so the least I can do is to repay you. These supermarkets have usually a lot of humans inside since there are so many different things that one can buy that getting the foil donated might be difficult there, at least at this time of the day. But once we figure out where the foil is kept and how it looks when packaged, I'm pretty sure you can just open a portal into the supermarket when there are fewer humans around and get your donations." Really, stealing anything with Yoshi around would probably result in them getting caught and Morwena didn't want risking that, given how close they were to Whisper Forest and the therefore larger chance that someone from Pandovia might be around.

Morwena walked into the supermarket with Yoshi in tow, looking around. It was indeed rather crowded. "Here we are, deary. Now we have to see if we can find your foil here somewhere. I'm not shopping in Evelon often, so I'm not really sure in which section they would keep it, so let's look around." Hopefully there was foil here in the first place - and hopefully, Yoshi wouldn't find a million other things that intrigued her as well.

[MillietheWarrior]

“Oh. What’s it like to faint?” she asked, clearly curious. “O, Miss Morwena. All humans are old to me. But if you say he isn’t old, then okay. I’ll believe you.” She giggled girlishly, her smile as wide and gleaming as it always was. She followed along obediently, keeping her hand tight on Morwena’s lest she get lost. Just because she was an ancient entity, didn’t mean she wouldn’t start crying like a child if she happened to find herself without her ‘guardian.’

“But what if there is only a moderate amount of different things to buy? Do they call those moderate markets?” She pondered the idea, and wondered how humans could be so inept at naming things. Really, couldn’t they think of something more clever than a ‘super market?’ That just sounded so silly, to Yoshi. She had a super large amount of books in her library, but she didn’t call it a ‘super library.’ it was just the ‘library.’ And her collection of artifacts had an amazing amount of things, but she only called it her ‘collection,’ not an ‘amazing collection’ (Although some might argue otherwise). “Once I find out where this tin foil store is, I’ll have no trouble getting donations on my own, Miss Morwena. So don’t you worry about it at all!”

She didn’t understand why people didn’t just get donations all the time. Really, what good was money? It made no sense to her. Donating was much more fun. When she was dragged into the market, she looked around with wide eyes. “Look at all the humans here!” she exclaimed, clearly having no concern with keeping a low profile. “But where’s the foil?” Morwena didn’t seem to know either, so Yoshi took it upon herself to prod the nearest person in an apron. “Excuse me, moderately overweight old human. Please tell me where I can acquire tin foil. It’s a foil emergency!”

The woman looked offended at first, but as Yoshi’s conviction grew, she seemed to grow even more adorable, and the woman was soon smiling and gushing over the adorable young child, going so far as to smile at Morwena and proclaim “Your daughter is absolutely adorable!” Even if her manners could use improvement. “It’s on aisle seven. At the very end,” she instructed, smiling sweetly. “You can’t miss it, dear.” Yoshi nodded resolutely, and tugged on Morwena’s hand. “I have the information! We must seek out aisle seven!” she proclaimed, pointing one finger dramatically into the air.

[Shieba]

"Hm, it is a bit like going to sleep, except that you are not tired beforehand and you don't drift off - it's really sudden." Morwena blinked at Yoshi, a bit confused. "Deary, how does it make sense that all humans are old to you, yet compared to you, we live short lives, as you keep saying?"

Morwena, being a mage and not a language master, really had no idea how to answer the girl's questions and so, she made stuff up. "Well, you see, the owner of the markets have to insist that their market is super, even if they don't have many things to sell. If they would just name it 'moderate market', no one would go there if there are supermarkets around, yes? So they all call them supermarkets, by unspoken agreement." She chuckled. If Yoshi ever found a tin foil store or a tin foil factory - the second one being highly more probable - Morwena had little doubt that the girl would change into her dragon form to be able to carry all the foil and basically raid the place.

Morwena watched a bit surprised when Yoshi suddenly started talking to someone else, inwardly cringing and happy that her Dear wasn't there - she just knew how much he would have been displeased by all the attention Yoshi raised. Morwena forced out a bit of a strained smile when the woman called Yoshi her daughter - Yoshi looked nothing like her or her Dear, after all - and only nodded in thanks before leading Yoshi away before even more people started to stare. "Deary, you shouldn't ever refer to a human's weight, especially towards females and if they are at average weight or above. Finding mates is very hard for girls when they are overweight, so being remembered that they are makes them really upset."

She led Yoshi through the store to the mentioned aisle, looking around. There were several methods for wrapping or boxing food around, as well as paper towels. Finally, probably slightly out of Yoshi's line of view, Morwena spotted longish boxes with pictures of a roll of what looked like the silver foil on it. Morwena had only ever seen the foil folded or thrown away and dirty and the roll of foil on the picture was absolutely straight and not-folded, so she wasn't sure. "Here, deary, is that what you want? We sadly aren't allowed to open it before we buy it, so try to judge from the picture."

[MillietheWarrior]

Yoshi giggled. “Oh, you’re all old. In your terms. I’ve never gotten a wrinkle or anything, but humans get them all the time. You’re not old in my terms, but…well, wouldn’t it be odd if I called you all children, even if you were 80 years old? I think it would be. So humans are all old.” She grew silent and thoughtful at Morwena’s explanations. The woman made so much sense! “I didn’t think of that. I don’t think I’d go to a ‘moderate market.’ I’d definitely go to a ‘super market!’ Like we are now! This place is crawling with humans and lots of neat stuff!” She ignored Morwena’s discomfort, and simply allowed herself to be guided by the hand, swinging their joined hands and humming to herself as she skipped along. She looked up at Morwena, confused, as she was lightly chastised.

“I don’t get it. What’s the big deal about weight? I’ve called Apacci fat before. Well, she did get mad at me too, but Mila Rose never gets angry when I call her boobs fat.” She placed a finger against her chin, her gaze troubled and confused. “But she was all old and stuff! She had lots of wrinkles! She probably already has a mate who’s old like her! So I don’t think it matters if she’s overweight, right?” The logic made sense to Yoshi. Humans tended to stay with one mate for a long time, didn’t they? So it made sense that her mate was the same age, and overweight and wrinkly like her. She occupied her thoughts and herself by poking at various objects at her eye-level as Morwena led them down the aisle, even going so far as to accidentally knock over a neatly stacked display of paper towels and squealing happily.

The boy who was working to stack the paper towels said nothing, but the look on his face indicated that he was extremely displeased. Yoshi had no inclination to stop and help pick them up, and seemed oblivious to the entire thing, even as she turned at the sound of Morwena’s voice and gazed up at the boxes on the shelves. Her eyes glinted with steely determination as she reached for them, but was just shy of managing it. “That’s it!” she proclaimed. “Hurry, miss Morwena! We must get ALL THE FOIL AND HOARD IT FOR OURSELVES!” She glanced around conspicuously at the few shoppers in the aisle who were giving her strange looks. “Hurry,” she hissed in a whisper that was too loud not to be heard. “They all want the foil. We must take it with us before they get their greedy hands on it! Hurry, hurry!” She tugged on the woman’s hand, and bounced on the balls of her feet, holding out her other arm for Morwena to pile the boxes into it.

((If she and Lelouch were in a room with bunnies and foil, the world as we know it would be over.))

[Shieba]

"I...I don't have wrinkles!" The mere suggestion that she would have some was horrible for Morwena. "I can't have wrinkles! I must be pretty so that my Dear will find me attractive and lovely!" Ugh, she just knew she would stand in front of the mirror for hours this evening after that comment. Morwena sighed. At least Yoshi seemed satisfied with her explanation about supermarkets. Morwena was half surprised as well that she had actually made sense - maybe she was actually right there?

"Well..." Morwena wondered how to explain it. "Breasts are different. Men love breasts. So having big breasts is a good thing. Having lots of weight is not. And sadly, humans are not like Dracons - or like me. Humans, especially human males, tend to often leave their mates for younger and prettier women. Not all of them, mind you, but it happens a lot, which is why all females try to look as pretty as possible - the ones without mates to attract one and the ones with mates to actually keep their mates. And well...you might be right and it might not matter, but it's still not nice to point flaws out. Weight is a sensitive topic for females because it's important to them. Imagine...someone would just walk up to you and tell you that both tin foil and your paintings are ugly and horrible. You would probably be really upset, too, right? That's because these things are important to you. And even though there are always people who won't like the same things you like, you wouldn't want them to spoil your happiness by actually telling you that, just for the sake of telling." Yoshi had to have at least some social competence, right? After all, she lived together with lots of other people.

Morwena glanced at the poor boy who had now to stack the paper towels again. She really didn't want to draw that much attention to herself - she was a wanted criminal in a world with a portal close to this place, after all. With a wave of her hand, she summoned a bit of wind magic and stacked the towels like that in a few seconds before turning back to Yoshi. She didn't want to chastise the girl again, though - her Dear would be upset if she displeased Yoshi greatly and the girl didn't mean it in an evil way, after all. Morwena had to keep telling herself that, though, when Yoshi started shouting again. Quickly, she looked at the foil boxes. "Alright, deary, there are eight boxes here. That might not seem like much, but those rolls actually have a lot of foil on them. You could probably already cover a whole wall of your room with them." They weren't particulary expensive, so Morwena simply grabbed them all and handed them to Yoshi, hoping that the girl could carry them all. "There you go, deary. Now we only need to pay for them." Hopefully, Yoshi would be quieter now, since she had her foil. The chances were probably pretty low, though...

((Lelouch would make cute foil hats for the bunnies! 8D Oh, and we should also throw Laksimi and a few ducks in. To make the world really, really end! 8D))

[MillietheWarrior]

“Oh don’t worry,” Yoshi chirped. “You don’t have any wrinkles yet. You’re not an old human!” She was trying to be reassuring, but she wasn’t exactly good at dealing with humans. Her life had been spent with her Hollow compatriots, and sneaking around behind the humans backs. And a library could only teach you so much about the human world; it wasn’t a good substitute for face-to-face interaction. “I don’t see why humans make such a big deal out of things. It makes no sense to me, especially not if someone has lots of weight. I’m big in my dragon form, but no one says they don’t like me because of it.”

Her hair practically stood on end and she hissed, very reminiscent of a cat, when Morwena suggested that someone might tell her that her foil and paintings were ugly. “If they told me something like that,” she replied, her eyes narrowed. “I would kill them.” And she would, too. She meant every word, and she was most likely capable of killing almost anyone who insulted her. She tried to make her hair lie flat again, still looking relatively displeased, when Morwena told her how many boxes were available. She didn’t even seem to notice the magic the woman had used to clean up her mess as the boxes were unceremoniously shoved into her arm.

She had to release Morwena’s hand to carry them all, but her displeasure evaporated, replaced by an almost giddy expression that had her smile stretching wide across her face. “I can cover a whole wall?!” she exclaimed, hugging the boxes happily. “I will have to remember to return to this market of super-ness to get more for the other walls! Maybe Halibel-sama will let me cover an entire hallway with it!” She glanced up at Morwena, her eyes shining. “Let us pay for the foil, so that we may return to your old-friend-who-is-not-old.”

((XD! I totally forgot about that. I'm sure if they tried hard enough, they could rule the world instead of destroy it. Hehe~))

[Shieba]

Morwena smiled a bit forced at Yoshi. It was nice to see that the girl had some social competence, but now Morwena was worried again - she tended to obsess over her looks too much, she knew, simply because she didn't want her Dear to pick a secondary mistress again. "Thank you, deary. I hope that my Dear thinks so, too...I've grown quite a bit older since I first met him. And you are right, we humans are a pretty shallow species when it comes to looks. I think it has something to do with our mortality, though - if someone is overweight, they tend to get health problems and die early. Maybe that's why we instinctively think that overweight people are ugly - because our instincts tell us that picking someone like that as a partner wouldn't be good for raising children. And that is one of the primary instincts when it comes to mortals; to make sure our race doesn't die out."

Morwena was actually close to taking a step back when Yoshi suddenly hissed. It obviously had indeed been good that her Dear and her had gone along with Tia when Yoshi had shown them her pictures before. She would need to make sure to inform her Dear about how sensitive Yoshi was when it came to her drawings and foil. Maybe they would have to put up one of the pictures somewhere... "Yes, see, that's what I meant. Such things upset people. But you know what - if you indeed want to draw the pictures you told my Dear and me about for us, we can maybe put them into the servant's wing of our fortress. That way, not only my Dear and me see them, like we would if we would hang them into my Dear's office, but all the many people who work for us! So you might become famous or something, if you want! And if one of the servants actually says something mean, you can kill him if you want. Everyone who insults a friend of my Dear and me is obviously not loyal enough to work for us anyway because if my Dear is so kind to give the servants some art onto their walls, they better appreciate it!" Brilliant - weeding out potential traitors and maybe pleasing Yoshi in the same turn. Morwena silently congratulated herself to another nice plan.

She was really glad when Yoshi got happier again, though. Making giant dragons angry really wasn't something she wanted to do. "Oh deary, there are normally at least two or three supermarkets in each town! With your ability, you could just open portals around this world, just ask a human where the supermarkets are and then get all their foil. They normally need a few days to restock new foil, so if you check more than one, you can probably get that room covered in a whole day if you collect enough from various locations. And maybe that hallway, too." Morwena waved her hand and summoned her small bag in which she kept her keystones, leading Yoshi towards the checkout. She grimaced slightly at Yoshi's attempt to call Bentner not-old (and failing with it), but she appreciated that the girl tried. When they reached the checkout, Morwena nodded at Yoshi. "Now put the foil up there for a second, deary. The nice woman needs to look at all the things we are buying to tell us how much it'll cost." Morwena smiled at the cashier. Hopefully, Yoshi would manage to not-insult this woman.

((xD! I actually wrote my Scav Hunt world ruling task with Lelouch. They so could!))

[MillietheWarrior]

Yoshi hummed thoughtfully. “Have you ever tried looking for a potion that will keep you from looking your true age? Not making you younger, but allowing you to keep your youthful appearance? I’ve heard about those, from time to time, but I’ve never needed one.” She smiled widely, her eyes sparkling with child-like amusement as she managed to twirl in place without dropping the foil all over the floor. “I could probably find one for you. You know I’m very good at getting donations like that.”

She hummed a happy tune as she skipped along beside Morwena, garnering strange looks form the market goers for not only her odd appearance, but the fact that she was buying eight boxes of foil. “Oh yes!” she replied happily. “I can draw you lots and lots of pictures then! You can put them all over! And if anyone insults them, I’ll just kill them.” She said it with the carefree abandon of a child stating a simple fact; she most certainly would kill anyone who insulted her paintings. Those were her proverbial ‘babies,’ and making a ‘mother dragon’ mad was a very, very bad idea.

She skipped along beside Morwena as they neared the register, hugging the boxes close to her chest and managing to juggle them with precious grace as she reached the counter. “There are more super markets? I thought there was only one. It doesn’t make sense to have more than one super market. How can they all be so super?” She looked perplexed, but her confusion disappeared in the next instant as she eyed the woman behind the counter distrustfully.

She slowly placed each box on the counter, watching them move away from her down the conveyor belt, and narrowed her eyes. She could just see over the edge, so the woman behind the counter was a bit unnerved to see a pair of angry blue eyes watching her murderously from the other side of the counter. “She better not hurt my foil,” Yoshi hissed, sounding like an overly angry serpent and tugging lightly on Morwena’s dress with one hand. “Or I’ll skin her alive.”

((XD They need to have an RP at some point. Oh the joys and the weirdness. Hehe~))

[Shieba]

"That sounds amazing!" Morwena beamed at Yoshi. "I would love something like that! We have nothing even remotely similiar in our world or I would have gotten it as a donation long ago! If you would get me one, I would be so happy!" This was amazing! If she could get such a potion, her Dear would probably like her much more! This alone was clearly was worth all the getting-stared-at she had to endure right now with Yoshi in tow.

"Mhm~" Morwena was glad that Yoshi agreed. Now she had only to convince her Dear - it would be best to do so when Yoshi would be away because if her Dear wouldn't want that, he could possibly make Yoshi mad with that and Morwena didn't want to fight Yoshi to protect her Dear, in case Yoshi would maybe try to kill Bentner then. "But you know, deary, if we cover whole walls with your art, people might not notice each individual picture anymore. Like...if you have a black wall and a sparkle on it, everyone notices the sparkle immediately and gets interested in it. But if everything sparkles, it's hard to draw interest to a single one." It would, of course, not do if people started to think of her Dear as someone covering his fortress with stick figure drawings...

And they were back at the supermarket discussion again. "Well, deary, humans normally can't open portals or fly or cover big distances quickly. So in the huge cities, if there would be only one supermarket, some people would live very far from it. Getting there would take a long time and carrying all the things they would buy back would be very exhausting for them. Because of that, there are many of them so that everyone can reach one pretty quickly."

"Uh..." Morwena smiled apologetically at the cashier. "No, no, she will do nothing like that, deary. If she would do that, she would be in trouble with her boss, so don't worry, she'll be careful." Or at least Morwena hoped so, otherwise this could turn messy. She quickly got out her money when the cashier, probably just wanting to get over with this, told her the total. "There, thank you. And...a bag, please." Morwena quickly paid and watched how the cashier pulled out a bag as well. "See, deary?" Morwena told Yoshi. "She even gave us a bag so that you can carry the foil easier without any danger of dropping it so that it stays fine." And people would probably stare at them less that way, too.

((XD! Lelouch and Laksimi don't like each other much, but they would both get along fine with Yoshi, I think. xD. Also, note that I have no idea how American supermarket checkout work, lawl.))