(No idea, lol, sorry!) The mare nodded and smiled confidently. She turned and quickly began to move in the direction of Frozen and Lotus.
Megan was happy for the mare. Hopefully things would work out. Now first she needed to figure out what she could safely try to sell to the alchemist, and then once she had some money in her purse she'd look for the Windigo. [Megan was not paying attention when the mare said Frozen's name. Also Ranma 1/2 but I copied the Mandarin names from the wiki so the could be wrong.]
(Ohhh, wait, is that the one about the guy who changes to a girl based on water or sneezing?) The mare approached Frozen, and whispered something in his ear. The white stallion's coat went beet red and he fell backwards off of the bench in surprise and shock.
[Hot water for boy, cold water for girl. There were some Chinese Amazons in it.] Was that a good reaction or a bad one?
The mare helped Frozen up and some words were exchanged between them. The two went outside for about ten minutes and then returned looking a bit sadder. Frozen went to his bench and the mare returned to Megan's table and her job. "So..um..noodles right?" She asked, in a shaky voice. It was clear she was finding it difficult to maintain her composure. Her eyes were wet with tears.
"I'm sorry. Yes." She wasn't going to pry. Did the stallion have someone or was he simply unwilling to give the mare a chance. If it was her she wouldn't give a stallion a chance, but she was really male in the first place. What excuse did the stallion have.
The mare nodded and headed off to get her food ready. Frozen, meanwhile, had excused himself from the table and left the restaurant.
Noticing the 'handsome' stallion was gone Megan when over to the table to see if the alchemist was interested in anything she had. "Hello mam, I'm a traveling adventure by trade, but a trader by necessity, I was told you might be interested in plants I have to offer."
"Hmm? Oh, yes..pardon me, I was a bit distracted." the mare looked her up and down, "Im afraid I haven't seen you before, are you from out of town?"
"Yes, I originally come from a rather remote village, but I've been traveling form many years now. My name is Megan Tron." Megan Tron was Grimlock's idea. Still Megatron would likely confound the pony.
"Odd name," she said, "Well, I suppose you may accompany us to my shop when my apprentice returns from his walk."
"I have yet to eat perhaps I can meet you at your shop later." Hopefully a time when the 'handsome' assistant wasn't around. "I have Verbena, White Sage, Sweet Grass, and Yarrow. If none of these interest you, do you know where else I might sell my goods?"
"It's quite alright," she said, "He shouldn't be too long I hope. Poor fellow was terribly upset. At any rate, I could certainly do with a resupply of Yarrow. It's hard to obtain here."
"He's was upset? Is he a mare trapped in a stallions form? I thought such magic didn't exist in Chineigh." Then again Alchemy and magic were two diffenrent schools....
"Hm?" Lotus' face scrunched in confusion, "Oh..nothing of that sort," she said, "He wouldn't really say why. That mare confessed feelings for him and it seemed to distress him greatly. I don't really understand why he rejected the poor mare, he's always so lonely!"
"That would be my fault, where I'm from we don't wait for the males to take notice we take the initiative. I made the suggestion to her, when she returned I noticed tears. Why would someone lonely outright reject a date? I mean I understand he might not know here but is that what dates are for to get to know the other pony?"
"I do not know," Lotus admitted, "I have asked him this many times, as he has had offers before from nice young mares. Usually he is fairly calm in rejecting them. Perhaps he truly had feelings for Jade, but then I still don't know why he would reject her." She shook her head, "That boy is an enigma.."
"I normally don't care for boy enigma's. I'm much more interested in artifacts, I most recently acquired the Jade Lotus. It's a jewel that grants immortality, but only to those that did not wish for it. Right now I'm searching for the Staff of Equality. It's also called the Staff of Communism, or the Staff of Sameness, I don't know where those other two names came from, or the staff itself for that matter. It's said to be one of Medowbrook's, but Medowbrook only had eight magical items and none of them were a staff....."She was over elaborateing, she was spending far too much time with Usagi and Lio. Not that she didn't use to over elaborate, but she stopped doing it after Unicron took part of her spark to make Galvatron.
"To my knowledge, no such artifact exists," said Frozen, as he reclaimed his seat. "You were correct in your assumption, none of medowbrook's artifacts were a staff. Somepony must be attempting to mislead you."
"Whether it exist or not, the fun lies within the quest. The simple fact that the artifact has mutiple names may mean it does indeed exist, but it may have been created by another mage rather than Meadowbrook." She knew it was nothing more than afunny shaped stick, but perhaps at one point such an iten did exist. Of course it was also possible that the multiple names were her own fault. She was currently in the past after all.
