It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood, won't you be my multiversal friend?

[basic_powers]

Parents were off taking Toby out for dinner, and Cecil was covering the excuse for him. He had a spare of the knock-out capsules, body armor, and some opened cans of tuna out for his guest, just so she wouldn't attack food in the grocery store.

It was a late Saturday afternoon and just beginning to ease into the evening hours outside, the inside of the home was neatly furnished and well kept, not a mote of dust anywhere. And given that this was only a fascade house for coverstories that was some accomplishment of cleaning in itself for a living room that size.

Which is what the linen closet door opens up into.

Welcome to Earth.

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[basic_powers]

...Okay, he'll take the 'stunned by awesome' reaction as the godsend that it is, and make a quick duck into another aisle to add two blue boxes to the basket.

"..Let's get some lean ground meat." It looks like the tuna steaks are a little out of their price range, at least if they still want to get the ice cream, and you should ALWAYS save room for ice cream.

Thus, two 2 lb tubes of 97% lean ground meat add into the basket.

[nepetaleijon]

"Is that meat or fish?" she asks, pointing to the tuna steaks. "It looks so good!"

[basic_powers]

"It's meat from a really large fish. It'd be...roughly I think four times your size."

He's a little off, but not by that much.

[nepetaleijon]

"Ooooh. Feferi's lusus used to --"


She shuts her mouth, looking both a bit downcast and a bit shamefaced.

[basic_powers]

...he's not going to ask who Feferi was. Really. Much. Since the lusus was probably some sort of guardian/pet thing, the 'used to' portion of that unfinished statement is clear enough.

Tyler's just going to tug Nepeta towards the Dairy case and ignore the fact that one of her coat sleeves has a sizable dark wet-patch on it.

[nepetaleijon]

There are possibly even more kinds of cheese than there are kinds of meat.

Also: heavy cream. Nepeta eyes one container hopefully, but ends up deciding to get some at the bar instead, later.

[basic_powers]

Tyler's actually picking up a small container of the stuff, and some butter and a little bit of the Brie as well. Then it's a quick trip through the frozen goods and the fastest time ever for clearing out 30 flavors of ice cream from the single serving shelves.

There is some odd looks from the check out clerk at their age and their purchases however, paired with a smile.

"She gets to pick what's for dinner tonight, as part of one of her school projects." Tyler offers. "I get some ice cream for helping out."

That earns a laugh from the check-out clerk and soon enough they're leaving the store with the paper bags of goodies, and some leftover change.

"Here, you can eat this tube on the walk back." Tyler says, offering one of the ground meat tubes to Nepeta.

[nepetaleijon]

Meat! OM NOM NOM.

"Is it unmewsual for kids to pick out what they're having for dinner here?" she asks, trotting along after Tyler.

[basic_powers]

"Most of the time yeah, what they eat usually depends on what their parents feel like making or if they're allergic to certain foods." Tyler offers out for an explanation, with a shrug. "A kid I know can't eat beets without getting really nasty sick. and I think it's kind of unusual for anyone my age to be shopping for stuff like this by themselves without any adults."

[nepetaleijon]

Right. Parents.

She shakes her head. "But how do you efur learn to do anything if your parents do everything for you?"

[basic_powers]

"School, and i think most of the time, you learn stuff by doing it along side of your parents." If you're paying attention at least.

"At least that's what happens for other people. I wouldn't know what normal families are like."

[nepetaleijon]

She glances at him.

"... how come?"

[basic_powers]

"..it's...a long story." Or a short one, depending on how you look at it.

"I don't feel like talking about it just now." He adds. "But I've learned a lot from my visit with Uncle Ray."

[nepetaleijon]

"Oh."

Not understanding what, perhaps, but understanding that there's something painful there.

"... who's Uncle Ray?"

[basic_powers]

"...sort of a Milliways-family. He lives in New York." Tyler's expression brightens considerably at the talk about Ray, obviously this man is a pleasanter topic.

[nepetaleijon]

She brightens in turn. "Could I m33t him sometime?"

[basic_powers]

"Sure, I think he's going to show up in Milliways. He tends to use the door a lot when it turns to October in there." Tyler grins, shifting his grip on the paper grocery bag.

"Otherwise I'll show you the Ghostbuster's patch at the house so you can know what to look for."

[nepetaleijon]

"Okay!"

She munches some more of the ground beef. OM NOM NOM.

[basic_powers]

She's probably going to have that whole tube finished by the time they reach the driveway of the house. Tyler manages to at least not drop anything as he finagles his copy of the key to the door in the garage. Well save for a couple of small servings of ice cream.

But Nepeta has those, right?

"Mhmmf!"

[nepetaleijon]

Yeah, she's got those.

(She actually hasn't finished the tube of ground beef; she's already had a good deal to eat today, and doesn't want to overstuff.)

"Do you have a purrlace to put these so they won't melt?"

[basic_powers]

"Inside, there's a freezer on top of the fridge." Tyler says once he's got the door open and picks up the bag of ice cream. The rest can wait a bit, really.

"That went really well. The trip to the store I mean."

[nepetaleijon]

Nepeta beams proudly. "Did I do a good job purrtending to be human?"

[basic_powers]

"Yeah, save for that one snarfing down of all the samples bit, and that could just be truthfully said as you really like that brand of sausages."

[nepetaleijon]

She giggles. "They were just so good!"

[basic_powers]

Stuff that needs to be frozen has been put away! ...Now Tyler's just setting out some of the contents from the other bag onto the counter and rummaging into another cupboard for an onion.

"I'm kinda hungry after that... you ever have mac and cheese before?"