[WP] You find a love potion in a dollar store
The dusty doors swung open, and a pint-sized fairy lazily flew down the aisle of the dimly lit antique shop.
"Finally decided on buying that shrink-er-ator eh?" A hoarse voice grunted from behind the counter.
"I told you, fairies don't need gimmicks to change their size"
"Aight, whaddaya want then" with the body of a man and the face of a pig, wrinkles dirty with sweat and dust, the 'man' emerged from behind the counter, blowing the dust off an aging bronze statuette.
"Oberon wants a love potion" the pint-sized fairy replied after leisurely inspecting aging novelty toys lined up on the shelves.
"10 dollars" The man grunted in reply
"This is a dollar store"
His pig face contorted as he snickered
"How very humourous, I almost laughed" The fairy rolled his eyes
His face contorted further as he chuckled in delight.
"We're outta stock"
"I'm a fairy Venus, I know when someone is playing tricks on me"
"Almost forgot, happen to have one lyin round right here" He reached below the counter and plopped down a little glass bottle with a cherry red liquid swishing around inside.
"Love-in-idleness... Yes, this is the one Oberon told me about" The fairy said while squinting at the words on the neat white label on the little bottle. He reached into his pockets and pulled out a coin. The Fairy threw the coin into the man-pig's hand and lazily flew down the aisle once again, this time hugging the little cherry red bottle.
"Drop by sometime Puck"
"I will Venus, see you" The fairy swung open the dusty doors of the ancient antique shop and Venus watched the doors slowly creak shut.
He let out a small sigh before resuming his work behind the counter in that ancient antique shop.
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