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Cael Cafe's Start of the Day [Action+Text]

Sebastian's Cael Cafe, 10 AM

The kid had to admit, he'd much prefer to hunt down this Dr. Devious woman. But he had business to attend to this morning: The Cafe. While the morning rush was over, everyone was at work at this point, there was still plenty of people in the cafe. Mostly people who liked to call themselves writers while looking over blank screens and talking about ideas. I'll admit I don't know what kind of writers those are, I'd just assume they are being ironic by not writing anything. The Kid though had a business to run and he was pretty good at it. He'd probably attend to the business concerning the other heroes until later. He had managed to get a decent night manager, but for the morning it was him and his employees.

The Kid though did have a tendency to attract different heroes to his place anyways despite people not knowing The Kid's real name. So not knowing who was the black shirted, white haired stripling keeping the business of the work in order. Though the fact he served a special selection of drinks that could boost even a normal person's powers probably was attractive to everyone. Though a superhero would have to prove their status to get access to the full power drink selection. I taught the Kid most of them, but he had certainly been creative to make a business out of it and try to make more.

Though he did post something to the Omagefriends network.

"Heroes, need a boost for your fight or search for the device? Come over to the Cael Cafe. It's where I get my boost for my fights against evil."-The Kid posted to the Omagefriend network.

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They had at least one interesting looking customer at this hour. Shadow sat at a table and reading through the menu. Egg, cheese and meat, that's all he wanted.

His order? Four scrambled eggs, american cheese melted on it, and three orders of sausage, two of bacon, and come ham on the side.

Us Cael's had never seen too many lions in our day. Mostly because they weren't any where we were from. Though even we know most don't take any orders from cafes. The waiter took the order and headed back. The Kid meanwhile came over to see what the commotion was about.

"Heh, you do not look like my usual fare. What is your name?"

He was glad that cafe fair wasn't that expensive. He was happy to just take water since he didn't much care for soda or-- Oh what else do they have at breakfast? Orange juice? That's out, and he missed oranges.

When the Kid walked over, Mat didn't even realize that this guy was part of the staff until he spoke.

"Who. Me?" Of course him. "I'm Shadow." Doesn't matter if he only uses his call name, right? It's easier -not- to have a secret identity anyway.

Well, the more complicated drinks were really expensive, but that's where the rare and hard to get ingredients got put. The food was just local, normal stuff. He didn't exactly have a great chef. A good cook though. The Kid didn't care much for people who came in with their secret identities on unless there was a good reason: tended to attract the wrong clientèle. But he let it go for now.

"Good to meet you Shadow. I'm Sebastian, I run this cafe. You are a hero, right?"

At the name, he would pause. So close to his grandfather's name but different. With a brief huff he nods to him curtly because that's all he could think to do in response to that.

"Nice to meet you too. And-- I dunno. Junior grade maybe. I'm supposed to go to a meeting after this and get talked to about getting a mentor with the omega friends."

The kid just listened to what he said with rapt attention. Not much else to listen to other than gibbering hipsters. Windbags had more intelligent conversations sometimes.

"Pleasure to meet you as well. Would you like to see our special drink list for heroes?"

Sure hope he isn't the windbag, but that's not to indicate that he couldn't be chatty or loud. He could be both.

"What kinda drinks?" This didn't look like that kind of place.

"The drinks include shakes, coffees, energy drinks, sodas, and others. Brewed in the Cael style, helps provide powers you never thought you had."

The Kid's knowledge of windbags mostly was around creatures named Windbags, vaguely sentient.

"Like magic?" His ears perked high and he reached to take the menu between two digits to look through it.

"That sounds cool. Do they just boost the powers you have or give you new ones?" Or was it just a marketing scheme?

"Not quite, but explaining the full details would be... complicated."

The kid pulls a menu from his pocket before handing it over to the lion. Rather dexterous with those paws.

"They boost the powers you have mostly, but some enable healing while others enable special skills that you would not have the ability to perform otherwise. Though that only works if you know the special skills in question."

He's had a few years to practice, but anything that would involve a thumb comes much harder without using both paws.

Taking the menu, considering the things that Sebastian is telling him. Interesting, actually. Boosting his own skills, his strength... That could certainly come in handy!

Scanning the sheet for details of the drinks, then his eyes fall on the prices and the corners of his mouth crease. That's more money than he has to spend on a single outing, and his diet was expensive enough!

"So you've got these boosters. They're sort of out of my price range unless you wanna give me a free sample."

"Sorry, I have to rely on a very limited supply for the ingredients of these drinks. If I priced them closer to a normal drink, I would run out too quickly."

The kid was somewhat right. Other than the Bastion, getting most of the ingredients on Earth was out of the question. The bastion wasn't huge either.

This he understands, as his mother sometimes had the same complaint with her potion making.

"Is there anyway to get more?" He wouldn't know how of course, but he was going to assume that was a stupid question just ahead of time.

"Do you get alot of-- Uh. Demand? Do lots of people want to drink em?"

"Yes but the demand can outstrip my supply if I'm not careful about selling them."

The kid didn't have much more to say.

"You make it seem like once you sell your supply, it's gone." He remarks, then sniffing the air to see if his food is ready.

"It's just difficult to acquire rapidly. Cael's remnants are very small and many of them require Cael specialties."

"I don't really know what any of that means, but okay! If you need help finding the stuff, it's not like I have plans for the summer."

Of course, it would help if he actually knew what the kid was talking about.

"I guess I am being overly vague. Well, I require primarily juice from a special creature from Caeldonia that is called a Squirt from much of what I make. There are only a few of them left, so I have to restrict how much I harvest to not over tax them."

"A...A squirt?" Somehow, that just doesn't seem appetizing to him.

"Caeldonia? Some other world?" And he can just go back and forth?

"Can't you just breed them?"

"Sort of another world. And a squirt's juice has many strong properties. It is very good for health even if it's not consumed with specific ingredients. I cant' go back and forth, but we... brought some of it here. We do breed more though, but if you know how breeding works, there is a limited speed it can work at."

"I know... It's just..." Okay see you're rapidly making him lose his appetite talking about squirt's juice here.

"I'm not sure I'd tell other people what it's really made of."

"You have orange juice and apple juice here. How is that any different? Or milk from animals."

"Because those things are made of fruit and milk comes from--" Oh. Okay. He gets it.

It doesn't really make it any less gross. "I guess I'd have to try it first. It still sounds weird..."

The kid didn't readily see the difference. Neither did I.

"All right, I'll get you some diluted squirt cider than. It's a lot cheaper."

As the kid headed back, the lion got his food. It wasn't long before the kid got him a small glass of the stuff. It was blue and had a fruity aroma. It would smell somewhere between apples and oranges, though brewed a bit and slightly musty aftertaste.

When his food is brought to him, he gladly took to eating, finishing off the eggs first before savoring the savory meat. When Sebastian returned with the glass, he was just about finished with the bacon. He left that and a few more sausages, just incase he needed to wash it down with something.

"Here goes nothing..." Aside from a few extra dollars. An expensive energy shot?

He took the glass between his paws and lifted it to his mouth so he could drink, knocking it back into his large mouth. To him it tasted a bit bland, but the musty taste he actually quite liked, oddly enough.

"Hmm. Okay. I was wrong. It's not gross."

The squirt cider did feel like his gut was a bit stronger after that too. Despite his own odd nature.

"We know what we are doing. Though some of the drinks does taste like you are eating dirt though, those are more for the health benefits."

Where he brave, he might have tried to eat a bar of chocolate. It was too bad he wouldn't be able to enjoy it what with his lacking the sense for sweetness.

"They say everything that's good for you tastes like sawdust or cardboard. It's why we got so many people who're fat." Less a joke, just a truthful observation.

He ate up the last of his meal and nodded to him. "What do I owe you?" He was fishing out a twenty from the pocket of his pants. Not an easy thing with no fingers.

"Where I am from the best stuff tastes like bricks and smells worse. But I suppose those are more medicines than drinks you just have regularly. The waiter will handle your check."

The kid stood up and headed towards the back now. The waiter came back over, giving Shadow the check. It was somewhat expensive, but nothing the lion couldn't manage.

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