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[campanas]

Pen' was just going to go practice singing. (She likes singing. The words are all lined up for her already and she doesn't get them wrong.) But this doesn't look like the practice room. So it's probably the magic restaurant.

Pen knows about the magic restaurant! You can go in it, and get food or things to drink (she has bracelets!) and then you just go back out the door and it's been no time at all and you're right where you went in.

She goes in. She is going to have cake.

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[pythbox]

Someone else is already having cake, it turns out! He is sitting at the bar wearing some kind of uniform, and he has a very tasty-looking slice of chocolate cake.

[campanas]

Pen goes up to the bar, and peers at the cake, then waves her bracelet at the bar. "That cake!" she says, hoping she will be understood.

[pythbox]

The bar provides her with a slice of that cake.

The original cake-eater looks from his plate to hers and smiles slightly.

[campanas]

"Hi," Pen says, hoisting herself onto the barstool, and then she takes a great big forkful of her cake, fluttering her wings happily.

[pythbox]

"Hi," says the stranger. "Nice cake."

[campanas]

"Eeeheehee." Pen nods rather than trying to construct a joke.

[pythbox]

He laughs anyway.

"It's my birthday," he says, "what's your excuse?"

[campanas]

"Uuuum?" Pen was unaware that cake required an excuse. "...Happy Birthday!"

[pythbox]

"Thanks." He grins. "I was kidding about the excuse, don't worry."

[campanas]

"Okay."

Cake nom nom nom.

[pythbox]

Cake nom nom!

[campanas]

Pen swings her feet and wafts her wings back and forth.

[pythbox]

"Are you okay in here by yourself?" he asks, after some more cake.

[campanas]

"Mmhm! Safe bar," says Pen.

[pythbox]

"True," he concedes. "All right."

[campanas]

Pen pats the bar. And then goes back to her cake.

[pythbox]

Well, that's adorable.

The stranger finishes his cake, but he doesn't go anywhere.

[campanas]

Pen finishes her cake too, and then contemplates whether she wants seconds or anything.

[pythbox]

The stranger is having similar contemplations! Finally, out of a feeling that ordering a beer in front of a small child would just be vaguely off somehow, he gets a Coke.

[campanas]

"What are Coke?" Pen asks.

[pythbox]

"It's, uh... this," he says, gesturing to his glass. "Do you want to try some?" Should small children not have caffeine? He has no idea. It probably won't be a total disaster, anyway.

[campanas]

"'Kay." Pen takes his cup and sips. "Sweet," she comments.

[pythbox]

"Yep," he says. "And fizzy."

[campanas]

"Yeah!"

[pythbox]

He grins. "You now know pretty much all there is to know about Coke. Can I have mine back, or do you want it?"