Butterfly Wings

Second District

"So, what do you sell here?" Sora asked Cid.

"We don't have any money yet," the girl interrupted. "Oh, but you can sell stuff. What do you have on you?"

Sora obligingly emptied his pockets.

"No potion? You didn't beat Riku at all?"

"Um..." Sora said blankly.

She glanced over it. "I mean, you could sell the hi-potions. Your aychpea is too low for those to be of any use....Oh, you can sell the Pretty Stone."

"What? No!" Sora snatched it off the floor and repocketed it.

The girl stared at him. "Huh? But it's just vender trash."

"It is not trash!" Sora began gathering up the other items.

"That's what I thought, but it turns out you can't do anything with it." When Sora just glared at her, she sighed. "Well, it's not really worth anything, and we'll have some money once we go into Second District." She snatched the hi-potions before Sora could pick those up.

"You planning on getting a job there?" Cid asked curiously.

The girl looked at him like he'd grown an extra head. "You don't get jobs in this game," she said scathingly. "You fight heartless."

Sora thought he looked like he was about to say something in response, but the girl had already grabbed his arm and was pulling him out the door. "Thanks bye," Sora managed to get out before the door shut.

Outside Cid's shop, Sora saw another door with a sign saying Items over it. "Wait, let's look here," he said, pulling free.

"Can't we just skip all this?" the girl asked. "This is taking forever! I already saw it the first time."

Sora ignored her and headed inside.

There were...ducks. Three baby ducks wearing shirts of different colors. One, in red, was sitting on the counter, and the other two were on the ground.

"Hi!" the one on the counter said. "Looking for items?"

"Hey, make change for this," the girl said, handing over the hi-potions. Sora followed her over to the counter, taking the golden munny.

"So, um, what do you sell?" Sora asked the tiny anthropomorphic duckling.

"They just sell potions and upgraded weapons for your lame party me – hey!" The girl half jumped over the counter, balanced on her stomach. "That's new!" She held out one hand. "Let me see!"

The other two ducklings – Sora thought of them as Blue-shirt and Green-shirt – hopped onto the counter to help. Together, they handed her a sword. The handle was golden and the blade itself looked crystalline, a stark white edged with faint purple that reminded Sora ominously of the light in the chest of his shadow's monster. Destruction...

"Awesome!" Kimi yelled, swinging the blade. "Sora, pay for it!"

Sora's eyes darted between the ducklings and the blade. "Are you-"

"Come on, you know everyone only gets one weapon, so this is obviously mine. Not like you can give that stupid duck a shield, even though he dies all the time."

He thought again of Kairi putting her hand on Riku's arm. And she was the only one left now. "How much?" he asked.

"100 munny."

Sora blanched. That was almost all the munny they had, and enough to buy plenty of potions. He sighed, but handed the munny over. "And one potion, please," he added.