Shop 'till you make a profit (Calleigh)

[Anastasia]

Elena appears. "Hi! I know Afina does and knows how to, actually. She should be getting back soon."

[Yuthirin]

We'll wait for that then.

"Yay!"

[Anastasia]

It's barely five minutes before Elena returns. "Oh, look down there," she points to the courtyard, where Afina, Smrgol, Dana and Mei are coming on in. "Go catch up to them."

[Yuthirin]

Calleigh zips away!

[Ebiris]

Afina's busy getting caught up on things with Smrgol and hearing about the distribution of their loot from the recent escapade. But she notices the smaller fairy approaching and turns with a nod. "Calleigh. Were you looking for any of us?" She knows how it is having to grab people between their traipsing to and fro around here.

[Yuthirin]

"Hi! Drena said you can make ice sculptures! We're gonna use elementals to make sculptures!"

[Ebiris]

"I prefer working with more permanent materials," she answers, giving the multicoloured crystalline dragon beside her a fond look, "But I suppose some ice carvings could brighten the place up and be on theme for our surroundings."

[Yuthirin]

"No! Drena is gonna help us make permanent sculptures for us to sell for the Aurora!"

[Ebiris]

"Oh, they're for sale?" Afina asks, re-evaluating the concept. "In that case I'll only make one. Scarcity leads to value, right? Since I mostly create things as gifts for those we want to curry favour with, I don't want to weaken the value of an Afina piece by glutting the market with them."

[Yuthirin]

"Good idea! We can charge more for it and maybe it'll get more people to come check out our other stuff!" Calleigh nods.

[Ebiris]

"Lets go see Drena and get to work, then?" she says, turning to her recent compatriots. "Smrgol, just go put my share in my quarters? I'll see you all later," she takes flight, fluttering off with Calleigh towards Drena.

[Yuthirin]

Calleigh keeps pace, trailing mist and nattering cheerfully as they go, "This is gonna be so neat! We're gonna have lots of cool stuff to sell and maybe this idea will even work out for once and the shop will be successful and we'll make a bunch of money for everyone and everyone will be happy and then we'll prove we're useful and everyone will go 'YAY!'"

[Ebiris]

"Have you or Tryll tried running a shop before?" Afina asks the obvious dread-inspired question out of the coure's narration.

[Yuthirin]

"Well, yeah, but we weren't very successful because it was our art and art is hard to sell in Brightwater! Everybody is an art snob and nobody appreciates colors like we do. Well, not nobody. We sold a few pieces. It didn't happen too often though. One every couple of years, I guess. I mean over time it was a lot, but some of the other artists get galleries! We sorta occupied street corners. Whatever. We're gonna do better this time! We got a loan from Baleruk, and advice from Filbrez and Emerald! We've got phase spidersilk clothes from Surrururuthruru and then we got them tailored to current styles by Bubbles and we have some ravages from Moonlight cuz they're pretty rare and everybody wants stuff like that to fight evil guys and now we're gonna get a permanently frozen ice sculpture from you and we'll advertise that it's a super rare item crafted by AFINA DEVILSBANE and everything is from the Aurora and we're gonna make money without having to risk our lives and everything is AWESOME!" Calleigh appears to be physically vibrating with excitement.

[Ebiris]

Afina listens to the smaller fairy's ramblings patiently until she's done and looks like she might plane-shift through sheer physical force from the extent of her vibrations. "The ravages don't really fit with the theme you've got going," she observes at last. "But I suppose even art connoisseurs can use poison now and then."