Robert
"Alright! I'll be back as soon as the food's ready! Oh, yes I am. Have anything in mind?"

*Tian's eyes sparkle with mischief. Despite being a restaurant owner, it seems like her oriate heritage still manifested itself. Her tail wags even more quickly behind her, the silver fur now making a blur.*
Ernest
"Sorry if it looks like I'm ordering too much. I'm just starving."

"So Almann, how exactly does that work?"
Leopoldo
"Hmmm. I might have someone I want to introduce to you - I got someone who came with me from Keguntan. A pale oni, small one, might be interested in working in your restaurant. Magically talented too from what I know."

"We can also talk about other things, naturally." *He winked at her, and then turned back to his companion.* 

"Ordering too much? Nah, can't judge. I like someone who can eat a lot. Eating is one of the greatest joy in life."
Julia
_Almann breaks his attention from the trinket._

"There are cogs, springs, levers, and brackets inside that allow for movement. It runs off of a type of craftsman magic that allows for it to move tsmoothly, though the specifics of the magic are a trade secret, as is the design. It's largely a toy that you open via a set of actions, I've made several prototypes so far, and most of them usually break or lock up. I've lost several coins already to locked toys. Which reminds me, I need to break them open one of these days and get my stolen change back..."

_It would about the dozenth time Almann had opened and closed the trinket, when it finally locked up and ground to a halt. It was completely jammed. Good thing he didn't have anything of value in there. This one lasted a bit longer than the others, but he needed it to work 99.9999% of the time (meaning it would jam once every 100,000 or so uses) for it to be a decent gift or selling product. Ideally it would never break, but complex mechanisms like this never last a very long time unless they are built by lora themselves. He'll have to go to the master blacksmith back at the guild for some advice._

"...From the other ones."

_He sighs and lowers his voice quite a bit.._

"Truth be told I've been making these things for a while now. Toys and trinkets are good whereever there are impatient young ones, they also act as bargaining chip of sorts. I've been trying to get into The Kingdom of Ombu for some time now, and the kingdom is quite picky about who they let in and trade with them. On top of this, the fae of their forest love to harass the few foreign trading caravans that come in. These trinkets, and some of my more simple and reliable ones, should be decent offerings for the mischevious fae to keep them off of the goods I plan on bringing in as good faith offerings to negotiate for a license in that country."