Orders:
- two rag dolls: replicas of me and Meary
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- cannot start until Meary brings materials
- charge: 20 silver coins
- three figurines of a little boy with a straw hat and funny backpack
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- a week's time
- charge: free
Earnings:
- free meat from the Blooms for the next seven weeks
- 5 silver coins
- vial of "magic potion"
Meaning I'll be able to afford rent for a good while longer, anyhow. I've cleaned the mess in my room. The pig is done, as are the nose and flute. I've gotten a considerable amount of work done this past week.
Key loved the flute. I showed her the pig too, and she liked it. She promised to leave her address with Barliman so I can be the one to visit next time. I think I'll make something for the dogs, for when I do. A chew toy for Helen maybe?
Today I met Tom Bloom. Meary hadn't lied, he's weird. Not in that hobo-that-calls-everyone-cursed way, but in the I-will-silently-glare-at-you-till-you-go-away way. He barely spent ten minutes in the same room as me, but Meary said it's the longest he's ever spent before. She was also impressed that he shook my hand before he left. Hardly romantic at all, I'd say. I'm not sure why she's so determined for this to happen. Of course I don't like him. I barely know him. And he told me I should leave, so I think the feeling is very mutual. (At least he said something?)
On the bright side, I finished the pig. That's why I went to the shop in the first place. Meary and I had to carry it down two sets of stairs- by the third, we got too tired, so we shoved it on the big haystack outside the Pony and hoped it didn't break. Meary's Southerner friend was there somewhere too. He offered to help, but Meary refused. Apparently she hates him now. She's definitely the master of romance.
I will be visiting the Blooms again soon, to paint the pig.
Tom wasn't the only person I met today- a boy approached me in the Pony, around twelve years old, who called himself Snide. For one thing, I cannot understand why he would use such a name. But he tried to sell me a potion that can turn me into a scary animal, so obviously I offered him a toy in return. We settled on figurines of him- three, to be exact. One for him and two for each of his friends. He wears an enormous straw hat. It was cute. I told him to visit in a week's time.
I'll be more than done by then.
