randomplaces | Mars' Reality and Nexus. Mars' Apt and Nexus Mall. BittyBolt and Murphy Shop for Mother's Day

Murphy: *tiptoes over to where a little bot is colouring* *gently touches his nose to the bitty's* Mrp?

'Bolt: *startles*

Murphy: *hunkers down with flat ears and a bitty mew*

'Bolt: *headtilt* *petpets him*

Murphy: *gently touches his nose to the bitty's again, then mrrps softly and goes to get a paper that he'd brought into the room. Brings paper to the bitty, walking big like a lion does when dragging a dead critter*

'Bolt: *watches*

Murphy: *lays the paper down, then sits and looks at his friend*

'Bolt: *takes the paper and looks it over*

paper: *has lots of pretty pictures and a few words. Tells about a special shop in the Nexus Mall where small people may buy nice things for Mother's Day!*

Murphy: *big eyes. Wantsta go shopping with 'Bolt*

'Bolt: *perks* *petpets Murphy* *let's go!*

Murphy: *so much kitty dance! Runs and gets his penny collection, dragging the piece of paper that they're piled on like a dead zebra. Kitty has monies!*

'Bolt: *goes gets his bag to carry his present back in*

Murphy: *can put pennies in bag? Tries!*

'Bolt: *uses opposable thumbs to help Murphy put pennies in bag*

Murphy: *purring loudly as he chases his treasure around and tries to do his part*

'Bolt: *despite his small hands, it doesn't take too long to get them all in*

Murphy: *happy, and so excited that his tail is poofed as he runs to show his friend where the portal is*

'Bolt: *expression happily telling Murphy to wait as he ends up turning around in circles trying to get the bag on*

Murphy: *sits and watches this* o.o

'Bolt: *ack!* *tries harder* *and then tries going the other way to see if it helps*

Murphy: *tries to see how all this looks upside down. Falls over from trying*

'Bolt: *falls onto his seat in his efforts* 0_o *how'd that happen?*

Murphy: *sits up. Perks! Bag on belly?*

'Bolt: *blinks* *moves the bag so it's on his front and then puts on the loops that way* *yay!* :) *thumbs up at Murphy*

Murphy: *arches back and poofs tail and bounces sideways*

'Bolt: *uses hands to get up* *whoops!--almost fell forward* *is on his feet!*

Murphy: *pauses and watches him to make sure he's okay*

'Bolt: *makes "okay" sign at Murphy as comes over* *petpets Murphy* *I'm fine*

Murphy: *happy little chirp and looks around, then runs to get 'Bolt's teddy bear*

'Bolt: *curiously watches him go*

Murphy: *back with the little green bear, his tail up proudly*

'Bolt: *Bear!* *attaches to his--hmm, where to stick it?*

Murphy: *sits and watches, and then pats himself on the head*

'Bolt: *tries to find a non-bag-filled spot on his front*

Murphy: *little mew and pats his head again. Put it there, 'Bolt!*

'Bolt: *huh?* *oh!* *puts!*

Murphy: *more sideways bouncing of triumphant triumph!*

'Bolt: :D

Murphy: *sits. 'Bolt got everything now? Time to go?*

'Bolt: *looks self over* *thinks so* *thumbs up!*

Murphy: *streaks through the portal! Zoom!*

'Bolt: *toddles after*

Murphy: *sitting in the mall now in front of the pretty store*

'Bolt: *doesn't stop to gawk at mall* *is on a mission* *toddles up next to where Murphy is sitting*

Murphy: *up on feet and more sideways prancing right into the store!*

'Bolt: *wait for meeeeeeeeeee!*

Murphy: *waits! Right where 'Bolt's going!*

'Bolt: *nearly falls over Murphy!*

Murphy: *meeps and teleports out of the way. Sits and stares with surprise. Y U Do Dat?*

'Bolt: o_o!!!

Murphy: *scoots back and kissies bittybot feets*

'Bolt: *how U do dat?*

Murphy: *sideways head. Do what?*

'Bolt: *point point* *teleport!*

Murphy: *buhwhat? o.o*

'Bolt: *point point* *you teleported!*

Murphy: o.o *nowayz*

'Bolt: *did too!* *saw!*

Murphy: *...Wowwwwww*

'Bolt: *nod* *wow*

Murphy: *gets up and prances. Iz supacat! Bonks into a table leg. EEEEK! Poofyfur!*

'Bolt: *Murphy!* *toddles after him quickly* *you okay?* *concerned headtilt*

Murphy: *looks up as somebody comes over*

red haired girl: *looks like a Christmas elf. One of the ones with the trucks* Hi, are you guys here to shop for something for Mother's day?

Murphy: *very big purr (TM)*

'Bolt: *looks waaaaaaaaaaaay up and almost falls over again* *oh, yes!* *enthusiastic thumbs up!*

girl: *grins* For your mom?

Murphy: *dance dance dance*

'Bolt: *nodnod!*

girl: What kind of things does she like? *friendly and gentle smile*

'Bolt: *blinkblink* *thinking face* *hmmmmmmm*

girl: We have pretty cards, and shiny things to hang in the window. Pens, cute note paper...

'Bolt: *wow, so many things . . .*

Murphy: *thinks not shiny window thing*

'Bolt: *right, probably not* *and maybe something more practical than 'pretty cards'*

Murphy: *thinks. Cards she can send?*

'Bolt: *but she doesn't have stamps!* *remember hearing her complain about that*

girl: We have stamps here. *whoa, she understood what they're saying!* And some of the cards come stamped

'Bolt: *looks up at her* *. . . long-lasting ones?*

girl: *winks* Yup.

'Bolt: *almost falls over in Happy*

girl: *laughs and puts out a hand to steady him*

Murphy: *just ran into the table leg again*

'Bolt: *maybe a few of those and maybe something else* *Mom isn't much of a sender, even with making the stamp excuse*

girl: *brings him over to a little low table with nothing on it but cards of various sorts to send and notebooks and journals and stationary*

'Bolt: *goes through them* *Ah, these are more of what Mom would send* *picks out some of the postcard type note cards and also some of the stationary*

Murphy: *thinks so too! Has nooo clue*

girl: Does she need a pen too? *reaches for a blue ink one that has a nice fruit scent*

'Bolt: *nod* *she doesn't have many fancy ones where she lives now*

girl: *sets the pen on the paper, then counts* This is five dollars.

Murphy: *attacks a seed bomb. Wants this. Mom can bring it to a relative's house and they can have pansies in the flowerbed! And the lawn, and the sidewalk... those things spread*

'Bolt: *looks a bit unsure of last*

Murphy: *sits and looks at him. No?*

'Bolt: *thinks about Mom's relatives* *probably not*

Murphy: *oh. Thoughtful look of zonkedness*

'Bolt: *reassuring petpet*

Murphy: *chives, then? Nommy and don't spread?*

'Bolt: *thinks* *might be best to avoid plants*

Murphy: *oh. Studies stuff. Pat pats a second pen. Red pen?*

'Bolt: *oh, yes, that will work* *turns to pretty girl* *and red pen, please!*

girl: *smiling* Do you want the red pen with the strawberry on it? Or the one with the Japanese bunny?

Murphy: o.o *falls over. Choices too harrrddd*

'Bolt: *looks down at Murphy see if wants to make final choice*

Murphy: *is ded (not dead) of Choices!*

'Bolt: *um, strawberry, please!*

girl: *adds it to his order with a smile* There you go. Two pens, three mailing cards, and the pretty stationary.

'Bolt: *thumbs up and starts to take bag off of himself*

girl: *offers to help, though she'll back off in respect of bitty self sufficiency if she needs to*

'Bolt: *appreciates help* *looks down at hands before holding six fingers up* *is six dollars in there! . . . Albeit in pennies*

girl: *looks in the bag and seems to do a quick count* Wow. Six exactly. Good work, boys!

Murphy: *is ded, can only curl a little paw and be poofy fur*

'Bolt: *thumbs up!*

girl: *carefully pours pennies into a bag that she has, and then puts the bitty and the kitty's purchases into bittyBolt's bag* Would you two like prizes for yourselves?

Murphy: *sits up, all alert now*

'Bolt: *prize?* *is a confused little bitty*

girl: Yes. Just for fun. You don't need to if you don't want to.

Murphy: *looks at bittyBolt. This is Christmas elf! They give presents!*

'Bolt: *umm, well . . .* *looks down at Murphy* *turns to pretty girl* *is okay?*

girl: *grins and goes to put the pennies on her counter. Comes back with two jars. One holds the familiar fish candy that changes to suit the consumer, and the other contains pretty little plastic toy animals. Hunkers down and shows both jars to the bitty and the kitty*

'Bolt: *looks between the two jars* *oh!*

Murphy: *would like fishy candy, please. Hooks one out with his paw and watches it turn into a dried sardine. Big purring*

'Bolt: *would like some of the candy* *also is looking curiously at which animals are in the jar, though*

girl: *holds the candy jar so that he can reach it easily*

animal jar: *seems to contain nearly everything*

'Bolt: *distracted by how one of the animals, a jackal type creature. It seems to stand out at him for some reason . . .* *hmm* *shakes his head and then reaches to get some candy from the jar*

girl: *holds the jar steady* Aww. I like your teddy bear.

'Bolt: *carefully takes a handful of candy, the animal forgotten* *looks up when pretty girl compliments his bear* *huh?* *oh!* :) *then looks embarrassed that can't put up a thumb in thanks*

Murphy: *comes and rubs against her leg for 'Bolt!!*

girl: *chuckles* You're both welcome.

'Bolt: :D *thanks, Murphy*

Murphy: *purrs and gets one more fishy, then takes it in his mouth and looks toward the door. Time to go home now?*

'Bolt: *nod, yes* *one last smile for pretty girl since hard to thank his usual way and heads towards door*

Murphy: *bounces through it sideways, and lo! It leads to home instead of the mall*

'Bolt: *doesn't seem very surprised at this* *goes to set his candy on the desk, so he can find a good place to store the gifts until Mother's Day*

Murphy: *is a tail twitching around under the bed. This is a great hiding spot*

'Bolt: *shakes head at Murphy* *but she keeps some of her stuff under there!*

Murphy: *parks butt without coming out. Tail twitchy thinking*

'Bolt: *goes to find one of his bitty corners Mom doesn't know about*

Murphy: *more tail twitchy. Kinda stuck*

'Bolt: *comes holding his empty bag and gets distracted from going to take care of his candy by Murphy's stuckness*

Murphy: *soooo stuck*

'Bolt: *gets down on hand and knees* *over here, Murphy!*

Mars: *sounds of arriving in apartment*

Murphy: *backs out of where he is so fast that he runs into 'Bolt. Mars-mama!*

'Bolt: *ack!* *Murphy-killed bitty!*

Murphy: *laying on 'Bolt* o.o

Mars: *walks into room* *facepalms when guesses what happened* Murphy!

Murphy: *bitty mew and sadsad face*

Mars: *comes scoops Murphy off of 'Bolt and helps the bitty sit up* *petpets Murphy once 'Bolt is righted*

Murphy: *snuggles, is ready for sleeps. Purrrrrr*

Mars: *chuckle* *smiles at 'Bolt when he gives her a hug* Hi, 'Bolt.

'Bolt: *Mom!* :)

Murphy: *we sleeps with you, Mars-mama?*

'Bolt: *continues hugging Mom* *isn't sleepy yet*

Mars: Well, you can, anyway, Murphy.

Murphy: *curls paws and purrs, his eyelids drooping*

Mars: *chuckles again and goes to settle down on the bed, 'Bolt coming to sit down next to her with a picture book* *she will help him tell the story to pass the time until it is time for bed*

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