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Henry Stillman (henri_with_a_y) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2010-02-27 16:35:00

Entry tags:

ceevee, henry stillman, zevran arainai

Who: Ceevee, Henry & Zev
Where: New Orleans market-place
What: Grocery shopping
When: The other day, after Zev's post about his quest
Warnings: Not likely.

Henry had already volunteered to help Zev with the shopping, which meant that he got to be in charge of the list, he was good at that. He grinned when he found out Ceevee was coming too, since she was one of his favorite not-really-relatives, "Mum!" He called down the hall as he put on his shoes, "Cee's going to help me and Zev with the shopping, and I could say we'll go easy on him, but it'd probably be a lie!"
"That's nice." Was the reply, somewhat muffled by office door, "Just don't stab any hobos on the way back and you're clear."

It wasn't long before Ceevee arrived, breezing past the few remaining photographers camped out on the lawn, wearing a coat that looked as if she'd skinned an over-large poison dart frog to make it, shades of purple, with black speckles along the back, fading to black on the sleeves, she knocked on the front door, rocking her weight back and forth as she waited.

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	easy_lover 2010-02-28 06:26 am UTC (link)
	Zevran answered the door with a flourish and a bow. "Welcome, small creature. I am told you have family here?" He grinned at her and motioned her inside. "Henry, I believe, will be down shortly." (Reply to this)

	velociraaptor 2010-02-28 06:43 am UTC (link)
	CV grinned, "You must be the minion, hi, I'm Ceevee, and Henry's not really family, I don't think. Maybe sorta, but whatever, we're cousins because we say we are." Henry bounded down the stairs then, list in hand, "Okay, we're set." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 06:45 am UTC (link)
	"I do not have any family, I could not speak to if that is normal or not. But I am welcome to be had as minion, though you may also call me Zevran or Zev." He smiled and leaned down a little so Henry could hop onto his back. (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 06:53 am UTC (link)
	Henry clambered up easily, grinning again, "So we're getting pretty basical stuff, staples you know?" CV nodded as she fell into step, "We're going to that partially open-air market, right? With the fish out front?" Henry nodded, "Yep, that's the place! Portkey drops us off right out front, that way we don't have to lug groceries all the way back with us." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 06:59 am UTC (link)
	"I have no idea what any of that meant, save for fish. Some of which I will be purchasing, with your silly paper money." He rolled his eyes at the idea. (Reply to this)

henri_with_a_y
2010-02-28 07:13 am UTC (link)

Henry nodded: "Yep, that's on the list, and don't worry, we'll teach you how the supermart works. It's about the same as a market, really, just with like, frozen food and brownie mix and pet supplies and shampoo and junk."

CV smiled, shaking her head, "You're such a dork, but you're right." The portkey did, indeed, drop them off right outside the market, CV beamed, snagging a handbasket and handing one to Zev, after checking the list, "Should all fit in there."

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	easy_lover 2010-02-28 07:16 am UTC (link)
	Zev bounced Henry a bit on his shoulders. "What are these brownies of which you speak?" (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 07:23 am UTC (link)
	Henry shook his head, "You don't want the kind that comes from a box, seriously, we can con big-Cass' brother into making us some of the real kind." CV snickered, "Or you could just ask him." Henry nodded, "That's what I said." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 07:26 am UTC (link)
	Zevran really was a bit alarmed. "But what are they? They are not those young girls I bought cookies from yesterday, no? I hope I have not come to live with a tribe of Chasind without realizing it." (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 07:30 am UTC (link)
	"The who and the whatnow?" Henry asked, before realization struck, "Oh! The girl scouts, no, different thing entirely, they're chocolate." CV nodded, "Cassie's mom makes them pretty good too, and hers are vegan, no eggs or milk or anything and I don't know how she does it." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 07:35 am UTC (link)
	"The children are made of chocolate?" He blinked and shook his head. "I am afraid of you two. It is good I am armed!" (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 07:39 am UTC (link)
	Henry snickered, shaking his head, "No, brownies are made of chocolate, girl scouts are just girls in uniforms." CV nodded, her basket already half full of sugar snacks, "They're like a cult, only worse." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 07:43 am UTC (link)
	"Oh! That makes so much more sense!" Zev laughed and craned his head to look up at Henry. "You had me worried, small sir!" Now that Zevran knew he wouldn't ever be enslaved, he was fine pretending he lived to serve. (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 07:45 am UTC (link)
	"That's because you're easily confused." Henry said with a nod, patting Zevran's head, "But don't worry about it, we'll learn you right soon enough." CV just smiled, shaking her head, "What's on the list? Might as well plot ourselves a route so we don't get lost." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 07:54 am UTC (link)
	"It's because I am from a world where there are no grocery stores." He was accustomed to open air markets and fishmongers, but nothing like what they were going to. "He is the keeper of the list, not me." (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 07:57 am UTC (link)
	Henry handed the list off to CV with a, "You navigate, I'll steer." CV gave him a thumbs up, nodding as she went over the list, "Okay, easy enough, got real simple things, bread, milk, eggs, the very vague 'produce' and then cereal and pudding and juice." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 07:59 am UTC (link)
	Zevran wasn't tired yet, and he still hefted Henry on his back. "Simply tap my shoulders for right and left." He was impressed with the metal carts, which he found to be most practical for sotring things. (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 08:07 am UTC (link)
	Henry nodded once, "Ayeaye. Where to first navigator?" CV glanced up to squint at the aisle signs, "Starting on the far end for the cereal, then we'll work our way back out along the aisles to the fish and then to the checkout, should be sort of a serpentine deal." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 08:10 am UTC (link)
	Zevran followed Cee, grinning a little. "How do you know what you need, there are so many things here!" He looked around in marvel. (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 08:22 am UTC (link)
	"That's what the list's for, so you know what you're coming for." She shrugged, "I know some people shop without one, but that always seemed kind of iffy to me." Henry nodded, "Usually end up getting a lot of stuff you don't need doing it that way." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 08:27 am UTC (link)
	"That makes sense, I suppose. But I'd want to try everything." He looked at a box of Fruity Pebbles. "That looks good." (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 08:34 am UTC (link)
	Henry nodded, "Those are good, and mum didn't specify what kind of cereal we're s'posed to get. So those and the cinnamon toast kind and then something plain like chex or whatever." CV's nose wrinkled, shaking her head, "I'm glad I don't have to eat breakfast at your house." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 08:36 am UTC (link)
	"Some oatmeal as well." Zevran grabbed a box of instant plain. "That, I know what that is." He grinned at CV. "What do you like for breakfast?" (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 08:41 am UTC (link)
	"Oatmeal's a good start." CV said with a shrug, "I usually go with toast and an egg or something like that, I don't do well with sugary stuff before noon." Henry shook his head, rolling his eyes, "Girls are weird." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 08:42 am UTC (link)
	"Those are sugary?" He grinned. "Excellent! I like sugar, but I am excited to buy some fish to make stew." (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 08:43 am UTC (link)
	CV just laughed, shaking her head, "I can see why you fit in over there, swear they'd eat pure sugar for breakfast if it was on hand." Henry shrugged, "Nothin' wrong with that." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 08:53 am UTC (link)
	"Sugar was a luxury where I'm from. I'm sure I will tire of it soon." He grinned and shrugged a little, bouncing Henry in the process. (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 09:03 am UTC (link)
	Henry shrugged as well, "Not a luxury where I come from, I just like it." CV laughed, shaking her head, "I like it, just not for breakfast." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 09:07 am UTC (link)
	"Well, maybe you can find a way to mix them together. Sugar eggs. Eggs made of sugar." He blinked when he rounded a corner and saw just that. "... I was only joking." (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 09:09 am UTC (link)
	Henry laughed, shaking his head, "Cassie's mom makes those, the kind with the icing pictures inside." CV nodded, "She does! Every year, sometimes twice, once for Easter and once for like, some random egg-based holiday or something, I don't even know." (Reply to this)

	easy_lover 2010-02-28 09:14 am UTC (link)
	"You will have to help again, I am sorry. What is this Easter? And why eggs made of sugar?" He shook his head. "Your holidays are more confusing than the Ferelden ones!" (Reply to this)

henri_with_a_y
2010-02-28 09:25 am UTC (link)

Henry's brow furrowed, tilting his head, "It's a holiday. Uh... I think it's about Jesus somehow, because most holidays are, but for us we know the guy? So it's no big deal if we don't celebrate because of him, but we usually go to Jack & Bill's for the egg hunt, and there's a lot of food, and uh... that totally doesn't explain why the eggs are made of sugar though, I don't think there is an explanation for that."

CV shrugged, "Same reason they make anything out of sugar for whatever holiday, because they can."

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	easy_lover 2010-02-28 09:28 am UTC (link)
	"Jesus. He is the one that is like Andraste, I think, where the Maker loved him best? Only it is his son and not his wife. I think I read that." He shrugged. "Okay, I guess that makes about as much sense as anything else in your world." (Reply to this)

	henri_with_a_y 2010-02-28 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	Henry nodded, "Something like that, yeah. He's the president now though, which I guess is pretty awesome, I mean, don't think any other nations have a demi-god leading them." CV shrugged, "There's Ares out in North Korea, but he's a full-on god, so I don't think that counts." (Reply to this)