Kurogane rarely visited the Fluorite Stones. A store full of enchanted stones. From different quartz to mica and aquamarine to fluorite and amethyst to lapis lazuli to kyanite to larimar. The owner had all sorts of stones available for sale and a smile as bright as the lighting in there. On the counter as some paper weight was a fairy stone - yes that's what it was called and no it was not for sale. The rest were in shapes ranging from carved animals to pendants to perfectly round balls.

"Good evening," he smiled that bright smile.

Kurogane grunted.

"Looking for anything special?"

"I'll know it if I find it," Kurogane grunted. He didn't like pushy salespeople - he always ended up getting something useless.

Kurogane slowly ran the tips of his fingers over the rocks, feeling their different energies.

The owner tipped his head as the man in his store wasn't looking at all at them. How unusual. So he walked over and asked, "would you like something to drink?"

Kurogane looked up at the man, a name tag saying 'Fai Fluorite' before shaking his head, "no thanks. You make it taste weird."

For a moment, mismatched blue and amber eyes looked surprised before feigning a polite smile. "I see.. Most wouldn't notice that subtlety."

Kurogane glared pointedly at him, and the owner quickly waved his hands dismissively.

"Don't worry, it was nothing bad," he waved it off and when the glare had failed to let up, "seriously, just some energy work."

"Hmnp." Kurogane quit glaring and went back to rummaging his fingers over the stones.

"So...what is it you're looking for?" Fai asked.

With a sigh, he supposed he could tell the guy. Not like it would sound any weirder than energy work would. "The right aura…"

"Aura? You can see those?"

"I spose…" He could, but he had trained to sense them around him even if he could not see.

"Hyuu~ that is so cool," Fai said with a voiced whistle.

Kurogane raised a brow at that but went back to feeling the stones. Eventually he found a pendant piece that had a nice aura and when he gently rolled it over, it was also within the budget he thought to spend.

"I'm not sure you want that one…" the blond piped up

"Why not?" Kurogane asked looking up at him.

"Well you don't look like you're trying to talk to spirits."

"You're right - I drink them instead," Kurogane retorted.

Fai got a quick laugh in on that one. "Other kind. Anyway… if you do like it's aura, the aquamarine over there might be a better fit for you than the celestite you're looking at."

Kurogane went to go look at the indicated rock selection and felt the different aquamarine samples and while Fai was right - most did have a pleasant aura - it was a lot more than he wanted to spend.

"This is a bit more than I have handy," Kurogane murmured.

"Tell you what… I'll charge you for the celestite and you bring me back a box of sweets from Duklyon Bakery… they always sell out before I can get to them… and then we'll call it even. Deal?"

If that's what it took to get a good aura stone from this place… "Sure."

Fai's smile brightened and he practically flung himself at Kurogane, "Yay! Duklyon Sweets for me!"

Kurogane initially flinched and doubled checked he hadn't damaged any of the stones before looking at their owner.

"How do you know you like em if you aren't up in time to get some?" Kurogane asked curious.

"Oh…there's this boy who works there and he wanted a special item of mine so I had him drop me off goodies from his work after his shift. They were so delicious, but I haven't seen him since so I haven't had anymore after he paid off his item."

"Ah."

"So, yes a full box of their cute bite size eclairs. Or one of their full size cakes, and ice cream to go with it."

"Eclairs or cake, got it," Kurogane murmured.

"That's cake and ice cream. I can't have a party of one on just cake, now can I?"

"Dunno," Kurogane shrugged.

"Why don't you know?"

"I just.. don't," Kurogane said and left it at that. It was hard to explain. Saying he could see auras got him less haranguing and 'testing to see if it's true' than saying he didn't like sweets, he hated going to any parties, he couldn't drink milk, or he had a very high alcohol tolerance.