Crystal Hot-spot

Cináed's unease about the whole situation only got worse as a firefly pulled their attention, floating between them before leading their gazes off to a figure that seemingly appeared out of nowhere with some kind of table in front of him. He glanced toward where Duchess should have been and it felt like she was still there, but he couldn't see her either. Was he dreaming? Was this all in his head? It was kind of hard to tell. He looked back to the cloaked... thing, whatever he was, and approached him uncertainly, listening as he was given instructions to pick one thing and only one thing—if he could afford it. He saw the price tags next to each thing and as much as he didn't really know if any of this was real he did have some stuff he'd found in his explorations so... why not?

He looked at each of the items for a few moments and considered them, but the one that really drew his attention was a flute sort of thing that seemed oddly familiar even though he was pretty sure he had never seen such a thing. It had a picture of three mushrooms or crystals beside it and he just so happened to have three mushrooms so he tossed those onto the table beside it before picking it up in exchange. "Pleasure doing business with you... I guess," he said as he took a step back from the table, wondering if that's really all there was to it and whether this deal would come back to bite him.

"Cináed Praetor"