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Asar-Suti comes downstairs.

He has overslept, looks a bit bleary, and gets coffee from the machine.

He feeds the trilobites and idly plays with Julietta the Curious Squid while trying to wake up.

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The Triplets are poking around among the various patrons.

"Take us to your land. Tim says people can take us with them. Do you get here through a tree? Because that's how we got here. Take us with you! We want to have FUN. And you're PURPLE. That is so cool. Can you flame up in purple? That would be FUN! I can flame! WANNA SEE?"

Asar-Suti is very, very astonished.

"Who are you - won't your parents miss you?"

Asar-Suti doesn't really know how to deal with children.

"I can flame up in purple, yes..." he adds slowly.

Lock starts to flicker a little. Shock tackles him and yells at him to unflame himself. She rises and fixes her hat.

"We don't have parents. We were just created is all. I'm Shock, this is Barrel, and that demon-spawn on the floor is Lock. And we would like to know if you can take us with you to your- whatever it is that you call not here."

"I'm from a High Fantasy world, but we, erm, don't have kids quite like you there, so people would look at you very weirdly," he says.

Asar-Suti looks at the three strange kids, devil, witch and skeleton - he tries to imagine these creatures in Homana-Mujhara, and fails utterly.

"If you don't have parents, who do you live with, then?"

"Ourselves. In our tree-house. Our room here isn't like our tree-house. We wanted to get some stuff so that our room here looks like our room at home. Because we do like it here, but its not like home. Oogie Boogie used to live in the basment, but Jack destroyed him. But its ok, he wasn't that great of a boss."

"A boss?"

Asar-Suti staaaaares.

"Where you come from, little kids have to work for bosses already?"

Asar-Suti almost feels protective of these three odd little creatures.

"We come from Halloween Town, and we were Oogie Boogie's henchmen. We brought misery and torment to everyone everywhere! Or at least, everywhere that celebrates Halloween. We need to go back to Halloween Town so we can prepare for Halloween!"

"Oh, misery and torment, do you?"

Asar-Suti does not feel especially tormented by their presence, actually.

"Halloween is still many months off, and it gets celebrated here as well, as far as I know - I wasn't here yet last Halloween. Can't you open the door?"

"We don't know. We came through a tree, but Tim have told us we have to go through a door. We went outside to look at the trees and found no Clearing."

"You will most probably have to go back the way you came, and if you can't find the way back, the bar wants you to stay here for the moment."

Asar-Suti has no idea what the bar might want these odd kids for, but perhaps they are to provide amusement?

You have no idea how amusing they can be. Too bad they have to be on their best behavior.

"I guess so. It's not so bad here. Do you think the Bar would let us have a cauldron for food?"

"Of course it would - but why doesn't it gove you your food outright, on a plate? So you can eat it right away."

He hopes those spooky kids don't eat anything totally unspeakble that the bar and the rats refuse to provied.

"The Bar gives us Beetles, yes, but I prefer a cauldron so that I can also use it for potions. Oh! The Bar doesn't have frog's breath. We need frog's breath. That is partly why we need to go get stuff from Halloween Town. All of our preparations are there."

"Preparations - do you do potions?"

Potions? Magic? These kids?

"We do all sorts of stuff. We cut the livers out of cats, put bees in people's pants, whatever comes to us when someone hasn't given us treats."

The little demon's eyes glow.

"You want treats - and I don't want bees in my pants," Asar-Suti smiles. He draws a sloppy but complicated sign in the air, very quickly, and gets a bag of small separately wrapped chocolates, sub-miniature Mars bars and the like.

And another. And another. And then he hands one to each of the triplets.

The Triplets. Grinning. Broadly. They now will obey anything this person says. Tread carefully, for they will obey completely.

This purple person, however, picks up his books and just says, "I hope you enjoy the candy", and then leaves the broadly grinning triplets to their subminiature Mars bar joy by opening The Name Of The Rose and reading about the odd octogonal library.

One cool library, at that.

Because kids being gleeful over candy are normally busy, happy kids with no more questions - or so he has heard.

[[OOC: and his mun must sleep now, so the triplets can feel free to sort candy and fight over it on the carpet; Asar-Suti's not going to do much more.]]

The kids do gleefully eat the candy, and sit fighting over it.

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