<em>Fair enough</em>, he thought as he saw her pay for her own cotton candy.  A look at the vendor and the thing would grin at him.  Of course the cotton candy was normal to the abnormal within the parade, being crafted out of a touch of magic, but to the mundanes it had many different effects.  How would the red effect Lily?  Alastor would get the pink type himself, nodding at the vendor as he began to nibble on his own cotton candy.<br/><br/>"So what brings you here to the Night Parade?" Alastor asked after a few moments.  "Have you come to witness the strange and unusual?  The freaks and the terrors of the night?"  Alastor smiled as he spoke, a feral and frightening thing to say the least, given the bright whiteness of his teeth, the look of hunger within his eyes.<em>This could be an interesting one</em>, he thought.<em>Perhaps she'll see a touch of the truth that exists within this place</em>.