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[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

[Anya is sitting behind the counter of the Magic Box, like she does most days. And she's going over one of the ledgers like she has been lately since Giles keeps making her double check everything. But she's still watching the patrons out of the corner of her eye.

If there's one thing Anya hates, it's people who loiter around and never buy anything. They are the leeches of Capitalist society, as far as she's concerned.]

If you don't want to be thrown out of the store, I highly recommend you actually purchase something.

Comments

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

The witch who works here. [Duh :|]

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

... Right. [ Peter now feels... adequately out of the loop. Even though he's pretty darn sure he's never even been here before. ;__; ]

So these are actually real? [ Look, he thought this was just... a magic store. ]

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

[Anya is so offended :||] Of course they're real! Are you accusing me of selling false products? Everything we sell is a hundred percent authentic, okay?

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

[ Great the awkward level just went up exponentially and Peter has to figure out... how to backpedal. ] No, I mean.. [ shit. ] Okay. Got anything for people who can't do magic?

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Not really. I mean, this is a magic store. Why do people coming in her today keep looking for other things? Can none of you read?

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I guess we didn't have anything better to do?

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

That's not an acceptable excuse.

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

Should I come up with a better one?

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

It would be preferable.

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

We got lost.

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

That's a little better. Plausible, at the very least.

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

More plausible than the first one? Really?

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Yes. Really. Getting lost makes more sense than coming in here when you didn't know what magic really was.

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

I know what magic is, I just... didn't think it was real.

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Then why would you go into a magic shop if you didn't think it was real?

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

Thought it was stage magic?

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not. [This is such a special argument...]

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

[ It's... the specialist. ] It's even better. [ Look, Anya, he doesn't want you to hate him, okay. ]

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Well..now that you know the truth, is there anything you'd like to learn about it? [This is her olive branch, take it Peter.]

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

[ He's going to take it and run with it. ] I don't know.. [ He wanders on over closer to where Anya's sitting behind the front counter, carrying the spell book he'd picked up. ] Are there different kinds of magic?

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Of course, just like with any field, there are subcategories and things like that.

[askedtobe.livejournal.com]

Are people just... born with it? The ability to do magic?