"This war never ended, did it? Not for us." // O/O // Closed

Winter was quiet, looking around for a hardware store. He figured he'd just have to grab a toolbox from there and hope that it would have everything he needed.

Feeling a little more confident of their amulet, Mycah started looking around for somewhere Winter could get tools. They didn't see any shops near them, but a shop up ahead looked a bit promising.

Winter continued walking, looking around. "I don't need much. Just a typical toolkit should be fine." he said after a moment.

"Okay," Mycah said, nodding. As they got closer to the promising shop, Mycah frowned. "Would that have what you need?" They asked, gesturing at the shop. It looked like it was some sort of garden/home improvement place, but it might have what Winter wanted.

Winter looked for a moment, then shrugged. "We can go see." he replied, heading towards the store.

Mycah nodded and followed Winter towards the store. It would be really nice if this shop had the toolbox that Winter wanted, but they wouldn't be too annoyed if it didn't. They needed to get used to all these people at some point.

Winter headed inside, holding the door for Mycah and looking around. Once he located the tool section, he headed over to it.

Mycah entered the store, giving Winter a thankful smile. They glanced around the store, then followed Winter. This place reminded them of Allx. He loved going to garden stores or greenhouses and getting seeds to plant in the small garden he'd created.

Winter looked at the tools, and eventually picked out a toolkit. "This should have everything I need for now." he said, looking over at Mycah.

Mycah tore their eyes from the display of seed packets to look at the toolkit Winter had picked out "Oh, good." They nodded in approval, though Winter probably didn't need it. "Shall we go check out now?"

Winter nodded. "Yeah." he replied, heading towards the checkout and letting out a breath.

Mycah followed Winter towards the checkout area, pausing for a few seconds to smile nostalgically at a picture of tomatoes. Allx had loved those, and his plants had yielded so many they were all practically swimming in grape tomatoes.

Winter stopped when Mycah did, glancing over and raising his eyebrows. "You alright?"

"Huh?" Mycah looked from the tomatoes to Winter and blinked. "Oh, yeah. Memories," They said simply. "Allx was a gardener." A small, sad smile spread across their face.

He nodded a little bit. "Ah. Yeah. I'm sorry." he replied softly. "I know it's…hard. To lose people you care about."

"Yeah. Thanks." Mycah nodded, then shook their head. "Let's buy these tools." They headed towards the registers, trying to keep the flood of memories from overtaking them. Breaking down in the middle of a store wasn't something they wanted to do.

Winter nodded, heading towards the registers and keeping an eye on Mycah. He hoped the other would be alright. He really did know that this was hard.

Mycah gave the person behind the register a smile, then stepped out of the way so Winter could pay for the toolbox. Instead of focusing on the fact that Allx was never coming back– why did that have to hit them now, of all times– they started humming. There was no magic in that music except comfort this time, though.

Winter glanced over for a moment, then turned back to the counter. He paid for the tools, taking them with a faint smile and heading towards the exit.

Mycah tapped their foot to the beat of the song in their head as Winter paid, then followed him towards the door. The song was making them feel a little better, as was getting out of the store.

Winter looked over at them again, taking a deep breath as they left. "Feeling okay?" he asked Mycah, meaning both the magic and just…just in general.

Mycah glanced at Winter and nodded. "Yeah. Thanks." It was time to focus on other things. Like the weather and how glad they were that their amulet worked. Humming was great until you needed it in order to go outside.

"Yeah. No problem." he replied, heading towards the house, the toolbox in one hand. Now, maybe, he could get the sink working better.

Mycah walked with Winter back towards the house. What would they do once they got back? Winter would probably be working on the sink, and they didn't really have anything else they wanted to do…

Winter hummed for just a moment, then refocused on the road ahead of them, turning down the street to go to their home.

Mycah followed him, still thinking about what they could do. Maybe they could find a way to get some news so they could check on the status of the country after losing its new leader.

Winter let out a quiet breath as they got to the house, standing to the side so that Mycah could unlock the door. "We need to figure out a better way to lock and unlock this."

"Oh, right." Mycah nodded, frowning as they unlocked it. There was no way they were just going to leave it open all the time, and it would be a pain if Winter had to wait for them every time. "I'll try and think of a way," Mycah decided, holding the door open for Winter and heading into the house.

Winter nodded, going into the house and setting the toolbox down. "Yeah, alright. Thanks." He replied, running a hand through his hair.

Mycah sat down at the table to think. They really didn't want to go to a locksmith– they would probably ask too many questions. So, either they would learn how to do it themself, or use some magic. Magic would be easier and take less time, at least if they did it the right way.