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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.

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[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Ami doesn't quite mean to loiter. But well, a magic shoppe was something pretty new. That meant curiosity, and that meant not being sure what was available or what she wanted to buy.]

Do you have a recommendation?

foiled :(

[slayerpreferred.livejournal.com]

[Buffy has to doubletake when she sees the shop pop up on her dreamscape... but she slowly opens the door and makes her unwieldy way inside. She even has to laugh as she catches the tail end of Anya's threat.]

Anya, it's just me. [though she knew it wasn't...just anything.]

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

It depends on what kind of spell you're trying to do. I could suggest you purchase one of our more expensive items which you be nice because that means more money but practically it would do you little good if you didn't need it.

Re: foiled :(

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

[Anya's...assuming it's the Buffybot because why would it be real Buffy. Real Buffy is probably decomposing by now.]

What are you doing here? Did Willow send you with a message for me?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

I don't know about this type of magic.

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Then why are you here?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

To learn about it, maybe. Have any good books?

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Does this place have food?

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

We do have a few intro to magic books left, in one of the back shelves.

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

No. Well, unless you eat lizard eyes or frog tongues. Which I guess some demons might. Are you a demon?

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Uh, no. I was hoping for things closer to ... edible.

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Well we don't sell food here. Are you illiterate? Because if you could read the name of the story I would think you could figure out we don't sell food here.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

I was hoping you had some magic food. Like a box of lo mein that endlessly refills itself.

[shifty eyes]

Is there anything you've got that can ... re-soul someone? I guess.

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Are they a person or something else? Willow's mentioned resouling a vampire before but it involved an Orb that's very hard to find and very powerful magic.

[smileforaliving.livejournal.com]

Neal picks up a book, paging through it for a moment before looking up at her. "What would you recommend?" He offers her a charming smile.

He has little to no idea what he's doing here but well,, he may as well explore.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'll look through them.

[Ami files through to the back of the room, where she browses the shelves for a book with beginning information that doesn't seem too simplified.

After awhile, she comes back to the front.]

This one looks right.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

A person. ... I think. His soul is missing.

[alongadream.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry!

[She hadn't meant to loiter but then, Ellen was a curious soul. Everything had to be looked at and this meant she spent so much more time browsing than the normal shopper did. Particularly in this place that had such a touch of mysticism to it.]

... I wonder. Do you have anything on fae folk here?

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of a human being soulless. Well, I've heard the others call people people soulless or heartless before, but when I asked them about it said they weren't really missing those things so I didn't think it was actually possible.

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

"It depends on what you want to do. We have all sorts of ingredients and spell books here, but if I don't know know what you're trying to achieve, it's hard to know what to recommend. Though if you want, I could always point you in the direction of some of our more expensive items. I particularly like when people buy things that are expensive."

There were a lot of people asking for recommendations today, which was a little different. Usually, people had an idea of what they were looking for when they came here.

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

[Anya smiles at that. Good, a customer who knew what they wanted. That was always much easier to deal with.]

I think we have a few books on them, is there a particular type of fae you're interested in?

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

This guy doesn't have one. Trust me. I have this whole soul detector thing going on.

[slayerpreferred.livejournal.com]

A...message? What sort of message?

[smileforaliving.livejournal.com]

Spell books. That's different but he'll go with it. "Set me up with the basic," he tries, offering her a smile. "After all, always good to have a strong foundation, right?"

[withoutshrimp.livejournal.com]

Soul detector? Are you some kind of witch then? Or a demon?