cap and oat
was saying to sam. i bought a cappuccino with oat milk today and they wrote "cap + oat" on the lid and i thought that sounded like a great name for a pub/inn lmao. i don't know if i'll end up calling it that but there has to be an inn in the town near wynwood forest.
it had me wondering what it'd be like if yarrow walked into one cuz. it's a little different i guess than just existing in town. i was thinking about what if he was sooo naive and optimistic when he first moved to the forest and just waltzed into town expecting there to be... not sprites but... maybe more non-humans... i think we decided there would be the occasional domestic imp around but. well i think wizards keep to themselves, they have their own little settlements, and wild imps definitely don't venture into human towns lol.
let's just say though, out of curiosity...
a Yarrow walks into a bar...
no idea what would happen though. it wouldn't turn into a spaghetti western-style brawl obviously. but the people would mainly never have seen a sprite and would, actually, mainly mistake him for a child til they get a proper look at him.
maybe this is what happens though like -- someone's like what's a child doing in here alone and goes to help him cuz he must be lost. spots his grey skin and pointy teeth and is like AH! and i think yarrow scurries on out of there before anyone else gets a look at him and then this person tells everyone what they saw and it becomes this rumour... some people probably think theyre lying or mistaken...
ugh honestly would be sad cuz he'd be much more hesitant to go back into town after that. but curiosity would get the better of him. from the humans' perspective he's this strange, probably-not-human little guy who keeps popping up every now and then. it would be like how everyone i know has seen the one bake off contestant walking around cuz he lives here. but mainly he doesn't hear any of that. if he goes to speak to anyone directly they'll probably ask him what his deal is and he tells them. word slowly spreads. people slowly start to accept him as (probably) not a threat.
i was thinking he'd go up to some kind soul wanting to buy something and he's like... i have no money but... and pulls out some kinda fruit he had on hand for a snack and they look at him so pitifully lmao and theyre like "i'll give you some this time, but just so you know, others may not look so kindly on such an offer." tells him that people do trade goods but probably he'd need something more than a singular apple or whatever lmao. and that if he had lots more of them, he could try and sell them and get money that way... so then he's determined that he's gonna do that.