Private Finished Shopping for Trouble

Phones... Ida wanted one but didn’t own one for herself. The technology didn’t exist where she was from and the small magic metal fascinated her, but regardless of how easy it seemed for everyone else to get one, she just didn’t have the money for it.

“I don’t got a phone, nah.” She spotted the store while she was talking and went right to pointing that out. “There’s the thing.” She pointed again.
“The Overflow thing.” She added.

She walked right up to the front of the building. “See, what’d I tell ya.” She slapped her hand against the building.

Ida smirked as she was praised. “Yeah yeah, don’t mention it.” It did not in fact sound like she didn’t want Dela to mention it.

“I guess sometimes...” Ida wasn’t so sure if the community center was such a great idea. There were a lot of terrible people there and if she ran into one there was a good chance they’d screw up the hero image in Dela’s head. Unfortunately she didn’t know any other place that wasn’t likely to suffer the same fate so it was probably risky either way. Work wasn’t really a thing she particularly enjoyed, but if she just had to craft and could make big money for a phone then it was probably worth it in her head.

“Yeah, I guess the center works, I’ve been there before.”

Ida rolled her eyes as Delaney made a big deal of it. She somewhat humoured her by answering with a simple “Maybe.” Before Delaney went in for a hug. Ida tensed up, wearing a grouchy face but not exactly doing anything to stop the hug and more or less just accepting it. It was... nice.

Ida felt pretty confused, out of her element but not necessarily in a bad way. She seemed a little dazed, answering Dela before she headed away. “Yeah, I’ll be fine or whatever.”

She started heading back to the more familiar streets, fishing something out of her pocket. The key to her necklace, with the number 9981 engraved on it. 2 less than had been written there that morning.