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There's a new place in town!

[ in this case, place just means a sketchy guy with a ramshackle cart hanging around the alley next to the legit pet store. ]

There were all kinds of exotic pets there! He said he can get us a hippo, Jamil. A hippo!!

[cursing]

Know that I will never forgive you if you bring a hippo into this dorm.

﴾ it's fine, jamil will just have to amicably interrogate every vendor in town until someone gives up a name. and then things will get significantly less amicable from there. ﴿

So you went to the market. With a body guard, I presume?

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Just a little baby hippo for the oasis! It would be soooo cute!!

I didn't want to bother you to go with me, I was just running out for a bag of licorice.

[ and returned with an animal. as is tradition. ]

[cursing]

﴾ Jamil is typing... blinks in and out for a worrying amount of time. ﴿

You are heir to the Asim estate, you do not run out for a bag of licorice!!

Your father's MERCHANT estate, Kalim, what do you think he's going to have to say when he hears that his son got rolled by an illicit exotics vendor??

I'd say this is far more bothersome!! What were you thinking?

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I was thinking that I wanted licorice. And I got distracted.

Father doesn't need to know about Impertinence.

[cursing]

He most certainly does not.

﴾ and with a little hocus pocus (which he's still totally sworn off of, promise), master asim never, ever will. ﴿

I need the names of everyone you saw at the market today.

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Everyone??

I don't know everyone's names! There were a lot of people there!

[cursing]

Tell me where you found this vendor then.

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He was next to the pet store!

[cursing]

Next... to the pet store?

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Yeah! On that smaller street, you know?

[cursing]

The alley, you mean???

We cannot keep this bird, Kalim.

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What! Why not? He's been singing The Winner Takes It All for me this morning!

[cursing]

That's one reason. We also do not know if he's been implanted with something.

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But I love him!

[cursing]

You just met him.

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I loved you two seconds after meeting you, too!

[cursing]

NOT IN FRONT OF THE BIRD KALIM

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Perty can't read. Don't be embarrassed.

[cursing]

Are you sleeping through Technical Cantrips again? There are spells to use these animals as sentries!! That bastard could be watching your every move right now.

Lock it in the closet.

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A closet?! That's too small!

If it'll make you feel better, I'll take him out to meet his new cocktiel friends.

[cursing]

You can't do that either! Didn't you read about quarantine periods in your research? He could have parasites or some sort of explosive embedded in his gut.

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You should meet him before you accuse him of parasites and implants and explosives, you know!

[cursing]

There's not enough time. I'm going to have to spend the evening tracking down your conman friend.

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Can I come with you?