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[OTA] Shop and Spy

Best order from a royal ever: go shopping and see what you can hear about what the Tower and the Devil might have in store other than dubiously romantic dates in Town.

So after a trip over to Diamond Castle, Zoe wanders first to Heartsong, her uncle's music store where Sara first spotted Burke and Asmodai, flipping through Uncle Lucien's used record collection as she listened to the chatter from the other customers. But it seems that all is quiet again on the Arcana front, and she's soon out the door again, wandering down the street and pausing here and there to look at this dress or this one or those shoes.

And listening to idle chatter, of course.

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"Aw, no joint cards with Elisha? He's disappointed, I bet." The brief, crazy thought of a Victor-Elisha-Hadyn-Zoe Christmas card had her shaking her head.

"Nothing in particular," she said with a shrug. Because she is, technically, supposed to be getting information out of people. "Though I guess I need to get shoes for the ball. And probably jewelry."

"Well I wouldn't hold my breath on that, considering he is Jewish." Hadyn said with a bit of a smirk, before looking around the shop.

"Shouldn't your man be the one getting you jewelry? Just a thought, and all." But Victor Fox was a hard man for Hadyn to read. It didn't help that he was Elisha's best of friends.

"Hanukkah, then. You can hold the menorah." Unlikely, yes, but also frankly a hilarious image.

Zoe shrugged, glancing down at the silver heart on a chain that she still almost always wore, even after a year. "He does buy me jewelry," she said as she picked up a god sandal and eyed it thoughtfully. "But Victor isn't really one to buy presents for no particular reason, and my birthday, as you know, isn't for a month and a half."

"Yeah sure, and I'll be sure he dresses like father Christmas." He said with a shrug. It wasn't even as if he had ever really celebrated the holiday to begin with.

"Eh, maybe it is an older male thing. Elisha doesn't really do random gifts either." He said, pausing. "Though...I can say a bike was more than I expected." Though...there was a sudden look of dread that inched over his face. "Fuck....How do you top a motorcycle as a gift?"

"If you do, I'll hang the card on my wall." Well, Victor probably wouldn't let her, but it was amusing, especially given how much Elisha liked to poke gently at her for stealing Victor from him.

"I gave up on outdoing after Christmas. Between the jewelry and the Hermes, he had to have dropped thousands." So had she, but Tiffany cufflinks added up quickly. For his birthday, he'd gotten a token. Two months late. "You've got...two months, I think. What does he like?"

"...I don't know." He blurted out before letting his shoulders sag. "I really....haven't....I mean, it's been a pretty stressful year, and there....hasn't been a...well." And now he was just making excuses. Sure, he know of things. But it was pretty limited to- cats, painting, motorcycles, and spying. And odd and end things in between.

"Maybe I'll brave Leona and ask her advice." That wasn't likely to end well, but...it was an idea.

"Well, she'd know." Zoe fingered a display of brightly colored belts, tipping her head to one side in thought. "I could ask Victor, if you want? Though I'm pretty sure he got Elisha alcohol last year." And that they'd then proceeded to drink all of it to an extent that turned both of them off alcohol for months.

"Meh, I'd rather not. No offense, but that guy? There is just something about him." And there was. It was disturbing and yet fitting. He never worried about Zoe's safety when it came to Victor- just everyone else's.

This would be the part where Zoe normally would say he can be very charming, but Hadyn's expression would just get more skeptical, so she just lifted her shoulders in a shrug. "Just a thought." She might ask him anyway. "He might just like to get away from the Castles for a while, though. Not necessarily off-Deck, but...it's been a long year for him too, I think."

"You do realize, that every time he's been off Deck lately...the world went a bit topsy turvy? I don't know. Maybe he's jinxed or something." Who knew. But he'd at least think about it. "But...I don't know. Maybe. Maybe I'll find some epic Art thing to go to with him."

Because as boring as Art was to him in some ways, Elisha seemed to be able to go on and on about it for insanely long periods of time.

"The world's seemed to go topsy-turvy every week this year no matter what." It was probably an exaggeration, but...not that much of one, frankly. She smiled, though. "I think he'd like that. He doesn't get to be an artist much anymore."

Which had been his choice, but Zoe imagined that he missed it. It's what he'd done on-Deck for years, after all.

"Maybe you should let him paint you."

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