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[3nanashi]

The trailer looks much the same as ever: small, clean, ruthlessly tidy.

Well, except for the tinsel on the cabinets. (Cathy's doing. It's shedding a bit on the counter.) And the holly and colorful squiggles drawn on the whiteboard on the back of the kitchen door. (Also Cathy's doing.) And the tiny tree taking up half the kitchen table, wedged into a corner and slightly precariously laden with ornaments. (Trowa helped with that one. But because Cathy handed him the box of ornaments and told him to.) There are small presents shoved under the drooping branches.

Trowa is making coffee, at the moment.

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The knife is taken carefully. It wouldn't do to cut Cathy after all.

Then Cass bounces the blade up and down in her hand a few times to get a feel for the weight. Once she's done that she slides her grip down to the blade and flicks the entire thing upward, watching it spin end over end before catching it again. She repeats the process a few times before examining the blade more closely and nodding in approval.

[madeyoudodge]

"Yeah," Cathy agrees with a grin, handing the sheath over. "They're nice."

"Trowa," she asks, a worried note to her voice, though instead of turning she stands on her tiptoes to see the rest of the booth over by the salesman better (he's ignoring them. Cathy has dragged Trowa over here enough for window shopping that he's realized he ahould just leave them alone). "Do you see the set I was looking at?

[3nanashi]

(This is, of course, the salesmen's definition of ignoring, which means he's keeping half an eye on them to make sure they don't walk off with the merchandise or cut a finger off accidentally. But he knows chatty window-shopping Catherine and her quiet brother by now, and Cass pretty much exudes I know what I'm doing.)

"The Kage box?"

Trowa scans the booth, though he's already looked it over once, and then shakes his head.

[seewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cass shifts slightly so that her right eyebrow, which she twitches minutely at Trowa, isn't visible to Cathy.

Hmm....

[3nanashi]

Cass gets a lack-of-expression back.

What?

[seewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooooh...

Cass decides she will help by also making an exaggerated production of looking for the knives in question, which she's never seen before, and then shrugging helplessly.

[madeyoudodge]

"Huh!" Says Cathy, who has missed much of this, frowning.

Oh well, it's not like she was going to buy it anyway. She brightens. "See anything you like, kids?"

[3nanashi]

Trowa shrugs.

And glances at Cass. She's the tourist here!

[seewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Some of the other knives are examined, but eventually Cass shrugs. She's got much better gear at home.

And with her. Even if she is dressed as a civilian.

[madeyoudodge]

"You two are no fun," says Cathy, fondly, though she hits Trowa on the shoulder. "Then I'm going to the clockwork museum."

...

"Iiiif our trusty tour guide will tell us where it is from here? Lemon and Greenway, I know."

[3nanashi]

"This way."

If Trowa's amused, you can't tell.

Well. Maybe Cass and Cathy can.

At any rate: off to the museum. With any luck, Cass will even remember to stay off the exhibits! (No bets, though.)