Words could not express how intensely relieved Alexander was to come into the shop today and find absolutely no statues, feline or otherwise, waiting for him at the counter. This meant that the only one that would bother him would be the one he'd been carrying around, which sitting on the counter, looking much like the frozen stalking cat it had meant to resemble.

This lack of cat statues put him in a wonderful mood and gave him the inspiration to work on an old chair that could use a little bit of a sprucing up to keep him busy between customers.

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A strange but beautiful artifact had come into the shop earlier that day that left Alexander quite distracted and fascinated. Clearly, it seemed a piece from this new location of theirs, and there were a few more, as well, that seemed to really add a nice selection to the rare finds scattered throughout the store.

It certainly seemed they'd been picking up a lot of wonderful things this summer. Alexander inspected the artifacts with interest, hoping to reveal more about all the fascinating perspectives he'd discovered about astrology from his brief explorations of their newest city.

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Alexander was still greatly distressed over the damage done to his regular room over the weekend; it wasn't so much about his own things, but the fact that William's side of the room had suffered equal destruction just made him feel awful. So today he was taking inventory of the furniture and decor around the shop, wondering what might make for a good replacement for things, or if he was just going to have to roll up his sleeves and get to fixing things himself.

He was glad to hear that the changing personalities and even whole bodies had been pretty rampant through the island over the weekend, but, still, he hoped he never had to go through a transformation like that ever again.

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Any hopes Alexander had of getting some research work done today went right out the window as soon as a big box of Japanese odds and ends came through the door. He could only assume these were considered somewhat vintage in the Japan on the mainland...the one he felt no desire to explore, finding the whole thing confusing and rather terrifying. He could easily say the same about some of the items within, but other things weren't so bad.

He still wasn't sure what to think of the towel cakes, but nothing was as terrifying as some of the cat things.

Zounds! Those were going way toward the back, yes.

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Alexander certainly had his work cut out for him today. Unfortunately, none of that work had anything to do with the shop.

It had everything to do with all the scouring of the Alexandria library he had done, inspired as he was by his Try Not To Die!!! workshop. Fandom High's library was certainly impressive, there was no doubt about that, but the same could be said exuberantly for Alexandria's, especially after the less than impressive records of the Vikings. Either way, Alexander had collected many notes, copied out countless maps, and now had them spread out on the counter of Things Reborn. He did not want to waste a single second, when every moment could be used in trying to find some hint of his missing Land of the Green Isles.

It was proving fruitless so far, but who know? Perhaps, just around the next corner of research, there would finally be his key.

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Alexander was running late for work today, not only because of radio, but because he and Ariel did go over to the spot on the beach where the princess had found Mr. Kyōraku passed out from too much to drink. At first, he was worried that they might not be able to resuscitate him, but after a few pokes at him with a stick, he stirred and awakened and claimed her hadn't done anything wrong, though they accused him of nothing wrong. He made a few comments about the two of them that left Alexander blushing while Ariel thought it was all quite funny, and helped the man back to his apartment, where Alexander made him drink some water before he waved them all off and promptly fell back to sleep.

Alexander, however, could not leave without following his impulse to clean up the messy apartment; Ariel had helped, although, mostly, he was pretty sure she just did so to easily slip away a few more bottles into her possession.

It was not an easy apartment to clean, so by the time Alexander did make it into the shop, he was too tired to really bother doing much. Refinishing and organizing the collectibles and antiques was just going to have to wait for another day.

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A new old piece had come into the shop that morning, and Alexander could not be happier about it. It looked as though it had seen some better days, but it was nothing that he didn't know how to spruce up and make much more presentable. It would take some hard work, of course, but Alexander did love a good project to keep both his hands and mind occupied.

It helped distract him from the...urgh. Cats.

So Alexander pushed up his sleeves, got together some sandpaper and wood finish and set to a productive day making the hutch like new...or almost new, anyway.

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Alexander was hoping he would have a cat-statue free day at work today, and things were going quite well until he found what he thought was just a random, out of place, polka-dotted pole hidden behind some other things. But then he went to lift it up and move it and it got stuck, and further investigation revealed...

"Ack!"

The cat and its impossibly long tail fell to the floor and then Alexander, carefully, nudged it underneath a dressed with his toe. The tail, naturally, was still sticking out, but Alexander reasoned wit himself that this just meant he could keep a closer eye on it in case it decided to do anything suspicious.

He really needed to get a job with fewer random cats involved.

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