Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

[Rebonack]

[The Dreamlands]

"Good choice. Now come on, we've got to get you out of that absurd false-fairy outfit. It's too conspicuous," Bats replies, releasing Isaac's neck and shuffling over to the carriage door. She knocks on it twice. "Knock knock."

A goofy looking face takes shape around the bronze door knob with the knob for a nose and the large keyhole for a mouth. "Who's there?" the lock asks.

"Boo."

"Boo who?"

"You don't have to cry, it's only a joke," Bats replies, grinning in a deeply disturbing way that only a bugbear could manage. What an awful joke. The face on the lock fades away again and Bats opens the door. Beyond is... well... suffice to say the carriage is smaller on the outside than it is on the inside. Within is quite the little curio-shop. Bizarre statues and idols, scrolls, paintings, whimsical bronze artifacts, jars of strange powders, rare stones and even rarer fae-fruits. There are cages, too. Cages of brass. Cages of bone. Uncanny fae-beasts are kept in several, rare and unusual creatures without the spark of sapience. No human children, though. At least not yet. Bats begins to rummage around in rows of dried, hanging flowers. "I've probably got something in here that will peel the effect of that curse off. Make you human until you spy the moon again back in the Waking World. And don't mind Timothy, he's trying to scare you."

"Baaaaaaats, you jerk! I was gunna to get him good!" complains a human child as he slinks out from behind some incomprehensible brass contraption. Or... at least he was a human child at one point. His black hair is a little too bristly and mane-like. His eyes have the faintest tint of fire dancing in them. His nails are slightly too claw-like. And behind him twitches a bull's tail. It's quite apparent that he's in the process of turning into a bugbear himself. The boy looks to be eight years old at most. And he's blowing a raspberry at Bats. He turns to Isaac and grins a much too wide grin. "Hi! I'm Tim! Are you a real dragon?"