What Would You Give

Cade

Patty stepped off the bus in her casual clothes consisting of a simple top with blue jeans. In front of her was the Capulet City Natural History Museum in all of its classical Greek and Roman glory. She had often wanted to go to this place but never could due to her status as an orphan. However, now that Dante sort of acted as her guardian, she could get out of the orphanage most days. Though he would probably get in trouble for letting her go by herself.

She walked up the steps of the grey building and opened the glass doors to the lobby. Inside there were various people milling about with brochures in their hands looking at the various objects on them. Reaching into her purse, Patty pulled out a ten dollar bill and walked up to the reception desk to pay for her visit.

"Children ten and under are free, Dear." The nice lady said as she handed the bill back to Patty.

"Would you accept this as a donation then?" The blond girl said with a huge smile on her face.

"Oh of course! Thank you for your generosity." The lady said taking the bill back from Patty and then handing her a booklet with information on the exibits and a pass for the whole museum. "If you are interested Miss Aiden will be giving a presentation in the Cursed Artifacts exibit later. It's full of spooky tales about the past."

"That sounds right up my alley!" More like Dante's alley, but she hung around him too much and even had a run in with a cursed object herself. She walked away following the map on the back of the booklet. The new exibit on Egypt sounded fascinating to her so she wanted to save that one for last.

Going through the doors to her right took her to the Minerals and Crystals exibit. She had never seen so many shiny metals and crystals in her life. There was a giant pillar of Azure that had come from somewhere in the desert and if you listened to it close enough it gave off a distinct hum. It was so beautiful.

Moving on through the next set of doors, she found herself in another exibit about dinosaurs. Fossils of dinosaurs like the T-Rex and the Pteradactyl were the star attractions for all the kids in the room. This was more a section for kids than anything. There were interactive games that had you matching dinosaurs to their fossils and a simulated fossil dig.

It was something she could appreciate being ten years old herself, but when she went to take her spot at the dig, she ran into some kid. He was about six or seven years old with white hair. Not platinum blond, but white. Like Dante's. Matter of fact, he looked like a miniature version of Dante. She just couldn't believe what she was seeing as the kid completely ignored her and went to sit in the spot she was going to take.

"Hey! That was rude." She put her hands on her hips and the boy looked up at her with confusion in his blue eyes.

"Sorry, I didn't know you were going to sit here." He said getting up and getting out of her way. Unlike Dante, this kid had some manners. "I can do this anytime I want."

"Huh?" Patty said in confusion.

"My Mom works here." He said with a smile as she sat down and grabbed a brush and began to pretend like she was at an actual fossl dig. "I get to pretend all the time when there is no one here."

"That's cool. I wish I could spend all day here." It was obvious that she was thoroughly enjoying her visit to the Museum.

"Why can't you?" The boy asked as he got on his knees next to her and started brushing away sand too.

"I can't come into town by myself too often." She said.

"Doesn't your mom take you to her work?" The boy asked innocently and she took no offence to it. She only shook her head.