#dreaming

Somewhere at the edge of a trod near you....

The shop set up is clearly temporary, though in the dreaming that can mean a century or a second. The shack has a large windup key on the side as if it were opened here like a toybox top. The Sign over the shop shack says Bitz and Bob's! with under that in smaller letters Pop culture and whimsy repurposed and preserved

The Nocker gent looks dapper and takes out a megaphone and calls out into the near dreaming "Bitz and Bob's now operating in the area for a limited time! A sale on all items. Gleaned from the vanilla, and repurposed to thrill ya!" he moves his hand over the mouth piece and says to his partner, "Got the stuff out on display, Bobbi?"

The Boggan lady smiles, "Working on that now, darling roo..." She puts out a red dress that is vibrant, and alluring and... it's hard to look away from it.

As if to announce what that is to the dreaming, Bitz calls out once more "Frex! And behold! The Matrix Mesmerizer! Once just a bit of a dream fluff inspired by the Matrix movie, this red dress was saved and repurposed ! Now solid enough to last, wear this, and you are the ultimate flixing decoy! Because EVERYONE is distracted by the person in the bright red dress! Use it when your friends need a chance to get away..."

"Like a heist!" Bobbi beams! "or a con!"

"Not that we condone crime... " Then a mutter "We don't prodone it either mind you." Then he speaks up again "But wait, there's more!"

Two odd looking boots attached to what look like boxes on wheels are put out as a pair. They have a rather dingy metal look to them, dark. Yet stylish. Fans of Star Wars the New Hope may recognize them as looking like the droid chewbacca scared on the deathstar

"Boot Scoots Star Wars edition, also known as the Wookie avoider! Not only a great pair of skates, but they will take you away from anyone taller than you! Fun at a party of trolls!"

"May the Footwear be with you!" Bobbi calls out too

"Beautifully said, my ditzy daisy" Bitz nods

A walking stick with old testament designs on it, "Children of Liltih in your area? This Walking stick will sense them and attack them, beating them about the head repeatedly until they get so annoyed they leave your dreamers alone. We call it 'the Curse of Cane'!"

"More a bad pun that pop culture preserved, but it was too precious not to put up" Bobbi beams!

"Behold, the Ghoster Toaster!" Bitz declares, "Which Bobbi will now demonstrate!"

Bobbi puts out what looks like a proton pack from Ghost busters, but repurposed with slots that you could fit slices of bread into. She charges it up, and puts three slices of toast in.

There's a FLARE burst as it ignites and almost instantly, three crisp but not burned toast slices come up with... patterns of faces on them?

"You've heard of ghosts being caught on film or photo? Well, the Ghoster Toaster catches the image of the dead about us, and imortolizes them on toast! Goes great with butter and jelly" Bitz declares. The fact that 'immortalizes' loses something if your'e going to eat the toast is not mentioned

A slim book is presented, no wait, it's thick, no wait it's thin... "The seldom seen oxymoronic paradox that is 'The Neverending Story: The Abridged Version!' . This book is a living testament to the battle with paradox constantly changing and omitting first this chapter, then that one, returning lines it lost, and losing lines elsewhere. Characters are dropped and found again! It's neverending, it's abridged! It's infinite, but on a budget! A fascinating literary conundrum sure to strike up conversations!"

Bobbi smiles "Some conversations may include 'oh put it out of it's misery, it's hurting enough' or 'Why would you even buy that...'"

"Not helping, my daffy dumpling" Bitz mutters

Then he speaks up again, "Behold!" He lifts a mask that looks like the bastard miingling of a Guy Fawkes mask and Kenneth Braunagh's face "What is this, you ask? Please tell us, you beg! Where did it come from? Well, at one time, two particularly potent dreamers were each preoccupied! One had his nose in the graphic novel 'V is for Vendetta', having just seen the movie version and wanting to check it out. As it so happened, the other Dreamer ? She had just seen Kenneth Braunagh's version of Henry the Fifth and was looking at the play wondering about it's script! Each lost in their own world, they read and walked ... and read and walked and..."

"WHAM, right into each other!" Bobbi declares "And she got her Play in his graphic novel, no, he got his graphic novel in her play! Like Peanut Butter and chocolate!"

"Apparently they hit heads so hard, there was an abrupt creation and the Dreaming created this bit of fluff... the Henry V... that's Vee, not 5, mask... we've preserved and strengthened it for you, the customer!" Bitz says

"Tell them what it DOES!" Bobbi nudges "Tell them."

"Was getting to that, sweet heart" he says "It now represents powers of anarchy and conquest, monarchy and mayhem! Powers so strange, so mystical, we hestitate to mention them!"

"That and we still haven't quite figured it out" Bobbi calls out "Isn't that exciting?"

Bitz sighs and looks heaven ward "I love her. I love her. She may kill sales but I love her."

"Dawwwww" Bobbi leans against him "And I love you, Bitzyboo!"