#fenixtj

"I'll see if I can dig her up"

"Just, no one really LIKES the marzipans. But I could take them out of the way...." She looks thoughtful about the necklace. Wondering if it is also candy!

Jessica fades back, just enough to observe but not be overt.

"You can have my Marzipans, Salma" Ariel says "I'll take more of your reeses cups"

It is! Little candies on an elastic string.

"And NO bubble gum around my library." She declares, then ducks a bit. "Los siento. OUR library." And kneels, for her Condesa to annoint her with candy!

"For Mi Hermosa Salma!" A necklace is bestowed, and then Salma gets a tap with a cow tail like a blessing from a scepter.

Constance returns "AH, Dame Ash will be a few minutes"

Jessica nods. "I'd like to see the rest of the Hold, see what needs repair. Can you stay with them? Just... don't let them eat themselves sick? Find me when she gets here?"

"My tail! Rude!" She giggles, and curtseys. "Gracias, Princesca." And does nibble at the candy, before it can be taken away for their own good.

"I will" Constance bows

"Thank you."

Ellie is working on the ring pop - which is turning her mouth quite blue.

She asks Ellie, "Do you remember where we went?" A tug at her ears, a little fussed to have forgotten. She never forgets ANYTHING.

"Nope!"

"HMMPH. Next time, I will take notes." A firm nod.

Ariel says "I think I ... commendeered some of the candy from bad people" A BLUSH

"I took notes, but I can't read them."

"You're learning," Constance assures "It's a challenge, not impossible and we are very proud of you"

"And drawings!" She finds her Samhain artworks.

And so they are presented!

Such fine things they are... and spooky too

crayola drawings of figures bowing before a blue giant.. (Jessica?) with heads on pikes head out as tribute. THe figures are dressed in feathers and fangs

Ellie's writing is more illegible than normal - Samhain didn't help there!

And another showing a summer scene, a whirl pool of silver off the beach in the nearby surf, and the girls holding hands as they head to the water

"Oh, this is us!"

Mister Duff and Tonto in some kind of fight against shadowy figures. Mr. Duff has a gun! And Tonto a Tomato

And another image of a boy, a wilder.. and there are hearts next to him. He could be a sidhe

Head-tilt.

"I think it's a prince."

"Who put the heart there?" Ariel whispers

"La corazon... but whose?"

"I don't know! Jessica has Mister Duff..."

"It's a mystery, a smoochy mystery!" Ariel declares

"But look, us!" Back to the more exciting beach picture!

"OCEAN ADVENTURE!" Ariel beams

Sure, prince smooch smooch is okay but. .OCEAN ADVENTURE!

"Right? Exciting!"

"No smooching for me. Holding hands gets in the way of turning pages!" Ever sensible.

"What if he held the book for you?"

"How would he know how to turn the pages?" She scoffs.

Ariel says "because you'd have taught him to do it JUST right"

"Oh. Hm."

She points at Ariel, as if saying "see?"

"Training time could be better spent just reading. ...I wonder if there is a book about how to train a lover?" That being, of course, the name for someone who loves.

She may get into trouble looking up THAT one.

"Um. Let me find that one for you." Although the Countess is a light lavendar.

"Make sure it covers BOOKS." She is insistent. "But if he can cook too, I would not say no. We SHOULD start training a prince early if he'll be ready for you when you are." Turning this back to Ellie again with a grin.

Dame Ash shows up "Pardon my tardiness, Baroness"

"Oh, that's a long time away. Like, ten years!"