<span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Declan's obliviousness was definitely something Merida had always teased him about, but she also attributed it to how their father Fergus behaved towards Declan. He was on the page he needed for his book and it was close to closing time, however Bell had gotten his attention. He looked her up and down, not in the way most men would check out a beautiful woman. No, this was more of a scan for hostility or evil intent. Neither was sensed...though he did pick up on a bit of fear or was it curiosity? That he could not tell...he wasn't his uncle after all, but he did know Bell was fey...aside from the obvious slightly pointed ears, there were other indications.<br/>
</span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">"Sir? Oh no my lady, that's a knight's title...I am afraid I don't have that honor. Despite all the collectables."<br/>
</span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Declan quickly placed a rune stone on the page he was reading so not to lose his place and to highlight the object he was to recover from the "Looking Glass" this was going to be a difficult task, one of those crushed under the boot heel types...but that was to come later. Elsa seeking him out was another annoyance he couldn't believe reared it's ugly head, that wouldn't be the last he'd hear from Elsa and Anna, not by a long shot. That would wait for another day, and it who knew if it would sooner rather than later. <br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3">"No, not all it's not a bad time, let me close up, would you like some tea or something?"</span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Declan turned out the lights outside and flipped the sign to read "CLOSED" followed by locking the door and activating his security system: the statues of Cerberus and the Minotaur by the door, their eyes lit up with a reddish color to indicate they were active. Above the entry way there was the face of the Green Man, it's eyes also lit up with an orange color. Wards were not something he used, it wasn't a school he was trained in, his knowledge of runes came simply from his Danish side through his mother.</span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">He still had plenty of time before the "Looking Glass" opened it's doors, and of course he had no intention of showing up right as they opened. He'd wait till at least 2200 (10 PM) before he'd attempt entry, he had two ways he could go about it, he was hoping to avoid one of them, that one being using his connections or being Merlin's nephew. He preferred not to do that, rather go in the side entrance unnoticed, he was sure that maniac Hatter or March Hare would take notice should he come in the VIP entrance.</span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3">"Chef, could you bring in a fresh pot of tea please? Oh and the tea cake please?"</span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc">"Oookie Dookay!"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3">"My apologies Miss? His English is lacking."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Declan indicated for her to relax and make herself comfortable, directing her to the very comfortable chairs Merida kept in her book portion of the shop. He was taking care not to show he was limping a bit, due to Peter's cut on his leg, but he'd taken a moment to place the acorn button he'd snagged from Peter in one of Merida's wood carvings, this particular one resembled a kraken, and it was under a display case that Merida had put up, despite protests from her brother, that contained his dragon ring, a crest created for him by a Native American shaman that showed the a dragon and hawk, an orb from Avalon, and a thimble. Though given Wendy's true intent he was unsure why he kept that blasted thing in that case, part of him wanted to throw that thing in the waters in the harbor portion of the city, the other part wanted it as a reminder of what cause him to be stuck with these labors he was currently working on.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">He was still barefoot here in the Arcana Cabana, this would seem odd to some, but those that knew him, understood something he'd gone through in his training caused this particular quirk of his dislike of closed shoes, unless it was cold. He looked at his dragon ring for a brief moment, the eyes on it changed from green to blue...that was odd it hadn't done <i>that</i> before.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Now was not the time for that, he'd ask his uncle about that later. By this time he'd caught on to the fact that Bell had been holding a music box, it was the one that played "Greensleeves" and he'd acquired it while in Switzerland, when he dealt with that whack job Olaf and that town that was encased in ice. It was a lovely music box, one that hadn't sold, the others he had were from Camelot,  though he was down to only two in the shop. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3">"That's a Swiss music box, very nice piece, it was given to me by William Tell. Please make yourself comfortable, I'll try to answer any questions you might have."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99cc"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0059b3"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">He was trying hard to put her at ease, she seemed nervous and almost worried about something. Wincing a bit from the pain of the injuries inflicted by Peter, he sat down in of the chairs close to the fire place, it wasn't a real fire place, but one of those gas fire places, as it was late summer he didn't have it on, there was no need. Given it was 86 degrees and humid, he'd closed the windows and turned on the air conditioning in the shop, but with the thunderstorm and rain coming it was set to take the blistering heat down a notch or two, Odense apparently had been going on two weeks without rain and from what the meteorologist Uncle Remus had said, this was going to be a heck of a rainstorm.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
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