Lord of the Toy Shops [Cece]

Mo's eyes were starry and glaced. He had only just set foot into a shop. A huge one. And he had frozen to the spot. Not for long though... The busy people of Regent Street were bumping into him and pushing him further into the store. He blinked and blinked again. He almost felt like a child. He then finally got a grip and decided he should go to the top and work his way down. So he walked to the escalators and took them all to the top on the amazing toy store.

Then there were a set of stairs to the sixth floor, but his eyes had caught on something amazing. A whole wall--- Mo walked tentatively over to the classcages and the walls around one of the corners or the shop. Lord of the Rings. Mo grinned. The Evenstar, the crown of the Elessar. Mo was speechless. One of the shopworkers seemed to notice this and walked over to him, asking if he needed any help. Mo looked at her with his mouth ajar, still a big grin. He just shook his head from side to side and looked back.

The shop worker gave a laugh and told him to have fun. Mo had a feeling that was not at all gonna be a problem. At. All. He saw a few plushies of Frodo and Legolas and -Merlin bless the shop owner- Gimli. He laughed at the dwarf's plushie expression and decided he absolutely had to buy that. He picked it up and had to use a lot of willpower to not squeeze the toy. He shook his head. This was brilliant, but it was time to cool down. He put the plushie down, still definitely going to buy it. But he had to look at all the other things there.

So... many... things!

Cece was still a total child at heart, and she frequently visited Hamley’s, the huge toy shop in London. Unfortunately, she had never been in the shop as a child, having lived miles away from London, so she was making up for all those years of missed opportunities by visiting all the time as an “adult”. There was just so much there, toys from so many fandoms, and cool art supplies, and soft toys, and sweets, and just about everything else! It never got boring, so she went back time after time because she was so eager to have that few minutes of being a child again and feeling totally content with her life.

After wandering in and out of a few other shops on the street, she couldn’t help but be drawn towards the shop. Today, she had an actual excuse: that Christmas was coming up and she had a twelve year-old sister to purchase an awesome present for. Undoubtedly, she’d find something in Hamley’s. Not sure where to start, she just looked around the ground floor for a bit, before hopping into the elevator and deciding to go wherever it took her. Wherever the other people in the escalator were going. She waited a little until it reached the top floor and walked out. For some reason, this floor didn’t look familiar. Had she really never been on the top floor of the best toy shop in the entire world? It didn’t matter now - she had to explore.

The first thing she saw was a wall of My Little Pony merchandise. Perfect. Maybe not for Anya, but certainly for her! Cece really, really wanted that MLP plastic teatime play set. But it would have to wait until she’d got her sister’s present, to see if she could really afford it. Then she caught sight of the LOTR stuff. No way! She had no idea if her sister was into LOTR, but it had pretty much been the blonde’s entire childhood. Holding back a squeal of happiness, she jogged over to the display. There was a man already there. Assuming he was a fan too, she beamed at him. “It’s wonderful, isn’t it?!” she said excitedly, her eyes skimming over all the stuff. Maybe she desperately needed a Council of Elrond lego kit, or an Arwen Evenstar pendant?

Having just stumbled across a chess set of the dark vs the light in Lord of the Rings, and breathing heavily out at the price of it, he looked surprised up when someone talked to him. He grinned at her and saw the Council of Elrond lego kit that she was standing close to and he walked over. "I love the Lord of the Rings," he said, noticing that he didn't really answer her question, but figuring she didn't really need one either. He looked away from the items and at the girl in front of him. She looked a bit younger than him, but he couldn't tell by how much. Early twenties? Something like that. She also looked really happy, which was great. Of course, you very rarely bumped into geeks who weren't happy people. Weird, definitely, but happy.

"How about you? Are you only a fan of the Lord of the Rings, or are there any other fandoms?" he asked. He himself was actually pretty fond of Star Wars, having seen the movie as a kid, dubbed to Korean, but when he'd grown older, he'd watched the original ones. He'd also loved the comic books and any cartoon series made about the ferociousness of the jedis. Looking around a bit more, he also saw some Marvel stuff and DC Comics. But he wasn't much of a fan when it came to them. He did like X-Men, but other than that, he had never really seen or read much from those two companies.