#bergen_county

"I lived here for years, not a shark one... then I go away and suddenly we got sharks?" Siv says a bit sulky

"Oh, here." He holds up a small baggie and tosses it over towards Siv.

Siv gets a look. "You've lived here about two years, and you've had plenty of beasts to fight, you get no account to pout."

"Fine." Then Siv catches what is thrown "What's this?"

"I know the sea is your thing, even though this thing was in an Elevator of all places. I saved you some of the teeth. When you lose a limb buckling swashes some day, you can put teethspikes on your peg leg and think of me." A smirk. "Or if you DO find any sharks that need killin', cut me in on some of the meat. There's this thing I'm trying called "hakarl"...."

A grin at the banter.

"Ha... you got a bargain...and maybe I'll get my Peg from Tove and Dagmar"

Sylvi makes a face. "I've seen hakarl. Pass."

"Thanks, Symon" Siv adds

"Tove will pick out the wood, and Dagmar will carve all sorts of bitchin' stuff on it."

"Oh, and this is from Ann Marie..." He offers over a smaller box, this one actually wrapped.

May whispers "Why does SivWANT to lose a leg?"

Leaning in, he whispers, "Don't bother getting excited, it's a scented candle. She got a wiff of the tanning compound and insisted on adding a present..."

"Hakari sounds like something Tove would like."

"You'd think there's a PROBLEM with shark brain mixed with bile, but eh, some folk..." A shrug!

"Symon, you'd probably like her weird jello fish."

"Waste not, want not." He says, attempting an angelic look.

Sylvi whispers back to May, "It's this whole pirate thing she's got. Like, her idiom."

Lupe snickers at the word Idiom

Candle is opened. "Tell AnnMarie thank you." Polite.

"Candle smells nice" Gerd says

"Ugh. Lutefisk. Sorry, Tove, but...well, Chieftain insists it gets served sometimes, and it's....blergh."

A nod, and he looks intrigued...

She catches Symon's look. "Lutefisk. It's preserved in lye, of all things. It'll literally eat holes in your tongue if it's not rinsed well enough."

"Lutefisk is a part of our heritage" Tove says

A grin. "The snack that eats you back. I like it."

"So's scurvy. Pass."

Siv nods "I agree with Tove..though, there are other parts of heritage I prefer"

Though Siv laughs at the scurvy part

"Well, if Tove ever makes it, I'll call you up."

"It's so foul, you might be able to eat it fresh."

"Ha! Yeah, I'd like to see that."

Another gift is offered up

Dagmar works through the pile, saving James and Tove's for last.

And so it goes.. reservations next year for a family stay at a horse tour in a certain island

Superhero T shirts

A bounty!

A T shirt with a horse design, air brushed to look like Star!

Sylvi will absolutely sigh, but Dagmar loves them all.

There is a box wrapped up in comic pages from the paper... and in it is... Hostess snacks! At least a week's worth of 'pay' for a certain Pup who gladly takes his wages in snacks and experience. A true sacrifice... a snackrifice, as it were. Left from earlier, as it's nearly his bedtime, and he was kindly told that Dagmar probably wanted to see her older friends for the party.

Sylvi may give her a you're hopeless look that she doesn't particularly mean.

"Awwwww! Connor's so sweet."

"Literally! Aw, I'll have to thank him tomorrow."

A gift also includes a card from Jack. It has a drawing of what must be Dagmarlifting Jack up on her shoulders and pointing to a silhoutte with Dagmar saying 'comic book style' "I know they're out there for you. " and it says 'Dagmar the guyed'. He probably meant Guide. It also has a comic book

Gerd says "He's such a good kid"

"He is." Agreed.

"I think we're getting down to the last of the gifts "Nadeen observes

"We are. Everything is awesome!"

Siv says "I just hope that shirt looked like Star"

"I think it does..."