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Hannibal was chipper today. Which meant that Jono could tell he was pleased, and to everybody else he'd just seem content.

"We didn't advise you to dress any particular way this week, because we will be indoors," he said. "Not all of the world's interesting places are particularly beautiful or scientifically or artistically superior. Some are simply amusing. Many, unsurprisingly, revolve around money."

He took out money and split it up, passing it out to the children. "You may of course spend your own money if you like, but we thought we might give you a bit extra." Each of them got fifty dollars.

"Today, we are going to the West Edmonton Mall. The largest shopping area in the Americas - the pair of continents we're nominally a part of. It contains over eight hundred stores, over one hundred places to eat, and the world's largest indoor amusement park."

//Also has an olympic-sized skating rink, a giant bloody wave pool with what at one point was the world's tallest indoor free-fall waterslide, several cinemas, and the occasional petting zoo,// Jono offered. //Plus a lake. With a life-sized re-creation of the Santa Maria. And underground sea life caverns. Some sea lions...//

This mall was a bit extra.

//We'll be spending the entirety of this class here, but an hour isn't long enough to see everything, and so you're welcome to stick around a little longer still. Hannibal and I will be here - I have been talked into shopping hell, this is my life for at least another few hours - and will be meeting people by the koi ponds in Chinatown to send them home via portal on the hour until... I don't know. Seven. Seven seems like a good time before everything starts to shut down.//

"We will also have our phones, should you wish to contact us or have any questions," Hannibal volunteered. "Otherwise, please enjoy a sampling of Earth's commodities and services, and do try not to get yourselves kicked out."

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Shopping! Or people watching.

Vette

Peebee

Prompto Argentum

Yang Xiao Long

Jack

Nell Ingram

Take your money. Look around the mall.

Was Vette just going to pocket that money? You betcha.

Hannibal nodded to her as she took her turn through the portal. "It's not required to spend it, but may I recommend at least one type of food you can't get on the island? It would be a shame not to."

"I guess I can look around and see what I can find..."

It was going to be even odds she'd either end up at a Taco Bell in one of the food courts, or that nice little bakery near the Asian supermarket in Chinatown.

"I'll tell you what," Hannibal said. "Buy yourself a nice meal - something where you sit down and people wait on you and the food is delicious. Bring the receipt back with you, and I'll replace what you spent on it."

He knew that look. He was going to see that you spoiled yourself, Vette.

She was eyeing him quietly for a few seconds before she repled.

"Maybe I'll do that."

It would be decadent.

And... weird. She'd contemplate how she even felt about that until she was actually hungry.

"Sometimes you need to allow yourself a little luxury," Hannibal said. "If only to remind" or convince "yourself that you are worth it."

Explore! There are a rollercoaster, a lake, a Chinatown...seriously, this place.

Who had two lekku and was absolutely just loitering on the bridge over the lake, watching the sea lions doing their thing?

This girl right here, unless anyone wanted to drag her off somewhere, anyway.

Who thought it was a good idea to let Prompto loose in a giant shopping mall? Honestly, now, who? Thankfully, there was plenty of other things at this mall to distract him from emptying his wallet too much, and he mostly just liked window shopping and dreaming, anyway, but still!

It was a good think he'd managed to sneak in that weekend home not too long ago, too, because this was just the kind of place to make him feel homesick for Insomnia a little bit, too.

Hannibal grinned at the look on Prompto's face. "This week's outing is to your liking?"

Yeah, that eager puppy look wasn't going anywhere, but his grin may have tilted a little more. "Well, I mean," he said, "they've all be pretty bad as--" talking to a teacher, Prompto, "--err great so far, but, I mean....hey. It is a new budding goal of mine that I totally go and score myself some sweet regional duds on most of my super cool FHS field trips. I'm just glad to have the chance to further what will surely be a time honored tradition one day."

Annnnnd shopping!

Would it be ridiculous to try to hit, what, all 800 stores or whatever by seven? A bit. Would that stop Prompto from trying?

Noooooope.

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Hannibal chuckled. "Well, I look forward to having created a tradition."

Once they ping in.

Hannibal is here. For the upscale stores and the people watching.

And the trolling Jono.

Jono was here. Was... kind of everywhere, here, really. If he spent as much time as he possibly could just riding the rollercoaster in Galaxyland, well, people could catch him between rounds when he wasn't being hauled around to shop.

And of course he'd be waiting at the giant turtle statue at the Chinatown koi ponds every hour on the hour, otherwise.

Now I wanna go, dang it.

Things I miss about Edmonton: Light Rail Transit. A decent Fringe Festival every year. The mall.

Things I do not miss about Edmonton: Everything else.

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