“Now don’t push like that” complained Life in Full Color as Like a Prayer and Fastidious pushed him past the other customers to the manager.
“You’re just too slow” Fastidious replied. She walked impatiently behind him, but obediently waited until the other Kins had completed their trade before pushing Life in Full Color further forward.
When they arrived in front of the counter, Life in Full Color saw the seller's somewhat confused look and quickly said,
"There's nothing wrong with the goods, don't worry." The Kin's face relaxed. Life in Full Color cleared his throat and was about to explain what was going on when Fastidious interrupted him.
“We saw him outside. The stones are really awesome, with the fur it's extremely difficult to find fashion items that fit, but they really suit him," she gushed.
“Now slow down” Like a Prayer chimed in.
“Take a deep breath, you’re going way too fast again, we can’t keep up.” Which earned him a sideways look from Fastidious.
"So what I wanted to say," Life in Full Color began again,
"I was just walking down the path when the two of them came towards me, I didn't even notice them at first." "Until Fastidious was halfway through your shopping items." giggled Like a Prayer.
“Until she was halfway through my shopping items” Life in Full Color repeated.
“Well, it wasn’t like that at all,” Fastidious chimed in.
“I asked very nicely where he got the items from because I thought the colors were so great.” “Of course you can interpret it that way,” Like a Prayer murmured and took a few steps to the side as he saw Fastidious look.
"Anyway, we're here to look around for some stones, if there are matching colors for him, there's definitely something matching for me too," said Fastidious.
“I’m just the money mule,” Like a Prayer said and shrugged his shoulders.
The three were led to the area with the stones and Fastidious's eyes began to glow
"so many colors." “Make sure you don’t start drooling,” Like a Prayer teased her, but she didn’t even notice that anymore, she was in a shopping frenzy.
She examined stone by stone very carefully, put back the ones she didn't think were so suitable and pressed the ones she liked into the fur of the astonished Life in Full Color
"so they don't get lost and I can see straight away whether they fit or fit not“ Shaking his head, he followed her as she worked her way through the selection of stones.
After half an eternity she stopped, turned around and held up the strangest shaped stone she had ever seen.
“Look at that, it looks like a duck!” “A duck?! Um, where exactly do you see a duck?" "Don't you see that? Here are the wings, there is the beak and there are the feet” “Ooookay yeah, if you say so…” “You just have no imagination,” she snorted and put the stone back.
With a loud sigh she placed the selected stones in front of the shopkeeper
“that was good, that’s exactly what I needed.” “You look exhausted, just go outside, I saw that there is a flower meadow a few meters away, wait there, I'll just pay quickly.” Fastidious didn't have to be told twice and ran out of the shop.
“And she is gone,” smiled Like a Prayer. He quickly scurried back to the stones, looked for the strangely shaped
"good thing it's still there" and dropped it next to the other stones. Life in Full Color grinned at him.
“What?” Like a Prayer asked him.
“Nothing, nothing,” he replied, grinning.
Muttering to himself, Like a Prayer pulled out a collection of shells, small pieces of polished bone and decorated nut shells, then went to collect his stones, but Life in Full Color snatched the strangely shaped stone from him, grinned and said,
"No, it doesn't work like that. Wait a minute." He snapped back and when he turned his head forward again, he had hairs from his tail in his mouth. Like a Prayer's look went from confusion to curiosity as Life in Full Color deftly braided a chain from his hair and handed it back to him, complete with pendant.
“So, now she can wear it properly.” Like a Prayer looked stunned at the piece of jewelry and stammered
“Thank you, thank you very much!” He carefully took the pendant and the two left the stand, after thanking the stall owner, leaving a few strands of hair behind which could definitely still be put to good use there.
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