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Hunter walked into the palismen workshop, starting his job For the day.
Hunter still had to finish the palismen he was working on Last night.
Luckily he didn't have much left to work on, but pickup for the palismen was also early. So that was the first thing Hunter got working on.
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Hunter had just finished up the palismen when the people had walked in to pick it up.
“Mom!! Mom!! I wanna get my palismen!!!!”
“Sweets were about To get it”
Hunter walked up to them “here to pick up this lovely palismen?” Hunter Said as He lifted up a bunny palismen.
The child gasped, “I love them!!” The child exclaimed, reaching out their arms.
Hunter handed the palismen to the child. “Glad you seem to like it!”
Just then, the mom had walked up to Hunter.
“Hey so uh, this is Kinda a weird request But, I know sometimes You can get busy And I didn't know if I could put a name down?” The mom had said
“sure! What name?” Hunter asked
“Well, I don't know exactly who's name it's going to be. That part of the family was in the emperors coven, and after the whole thing happened they moved away and haven't really come back in awhile. I know they Were looking to get palismen though.”
“I could put it under your name! just make sure whoever comes knows it's under yours.”
“Thank You so much!”
“No problem! What name am I putting down?”
“Ella Karter”
Hunter grabbed a sheet of paper and wrote down the name. “Alright, got it down!”
“Again, thank you. Now we should get going” Ella turned over to her child. “We have stuff to do today.”
“Byee mister!!” The child said as they walked away.
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Hunter had been working on a new palismen request when Dell had came into the room.
“you know your lunch break has started?”
“Yeah, but its a small one i'm almost done with it.”
Dell walked over to Hunter “it's ok to take breaks you know.” and walked out of the room
Waffles hopped over and pecked at Hunter's arm. “take break! Mouse!”
Hunter Stopped carving the palismen “Shoot you're right!” Hunter put his carving tools away and then set off for the woods.
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Hunter was now back in front of the cave, the grimwalker cave.
“Uh.. Waffles?”
Waffles went up to the cave and rubbed her head against it.
Boom, it opens.
Hunter and Waffles head in.
As Hunter Took a few steps in, he looked around. Although it was hard to see because of how dark it was, he could still make out figures, figures of bones and masks.
Soon enough, Robin came into the room “oh, hi!!” Robin said, going up to Hunter.
“Hey! Do you know where to find ollie?”
“Yeah! Follow me!” And with that Robin was speeding away with Hunter following behind.
“Ollie!!!” Robin said, running up to Ollie.
Ollie was sitting there playing with their mouse palismen. When he heard Robin coming he looked Up.
“Ollie!! Ollie!! Hunters here!” Robin said, now standing in front of Ollie. Hunter had been standing behind Robin.
“Oh..! Uhm..” Ollie Picked up the mouse, “bye then” Ollie said standing up about to hand the mouse to Hunter.
Ollie was about to give the mouse to Hunter, When suddenly Hunter said “I wouldn't mind if you wanted to come with me if you still wanna hangout with them”
Ollie's face lit up. “Really?? Thank you thank you!!”
Hunter chuckled “no problem, but we should start to get going, the faster we're there The faster I can fix Them”
Ollie looked over at Robin “if anyone asks where I am can you tell them?”
“Ofcourse!!”
Ollie looked back over at Hunter “let's get going then!”
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“Alright! Here's the place” Hunter said, walking into the palismen shop.
Ollie walked in looking amazed. “So do you just carve palismen everyday?”
“Well not every day but most, I mean not every person needs a new palismen everyday, plus some days I spend just fixing up palismen whether it's a scratch or a big crack. Also we have a program for any palismen that have been abandoned, whether people buy it or we go around, mostly schools, having palismen adoption days, though sometimes if we don't have enough we'll make more palismen to go along with them, but also not every student gets a palismen those days either.” Hunter walked up to a table That had different tools All over it. “Do you care to set them down over here?”
Ollie set the mouse down on the table. “They're Gonna be ok right?”
“I mean for the most part, they should. There definitely will be a few areas that are gonna turn into scars, and it's probably gonna take a while to finish, But in the end they should be fine. I can't imagine how long the poor guy has been like this for.”
“Am I able to check up on them..?”
“Oh you're welcome to come here anytime!”
Waffles chirped along.
“I've never really been out of the cave, so much has changed.”
“You guys have just been in there for a while?”
“I mean we've never really had a reason to go out, and if some of us have they usually prefer being in the cave”
Just then, Dell walked into the room. “Who's this little palismen over here?”
Hunter looked over at Dell. “Waffles had gone and found them in the woods. We have no clue how they got like this or how long the damage has been there, but the damage is pretty old.”
Dell took a closer look at the palismen “any information about an owner?”
Hunter quickly looked over at Ollie then back at Dell. “So far no clue, but right now we need to focus on getting them healed.” Hunter pet the mouse palismen on the head.
“We can ask the bat queen about them if we can't manage to find out anything,” Dell said.
Hunter felt a little panicked. He didn't want to give the palismen away, but he also didn't want to dump on Dell that he could see ghosts of all the other golden guards.
Though, the bat queen would probably find that out anyway.
“Where has the bat queen been anyway? I haven't seen her anywhere in awhile.” Hunter said.
“recently she took her kids on a trip to the knee, not sure when they'll be back. Speaking of going places, I should get going now. Lily needed some help at the museum today.”
“Alright, have fun!”
And with that Dell left the room.
Hunter looked back over at Ollie who looked extremely worried.
“Who's the Bat Queen? Nothing bad is going to happen to my palismen right?”
“Your palismen is going to be fine, the Bat Queen takes In lost and abandoned palismen, and she also can communicate with them, so basically she would just find out you're the owner if she does come and see your palismen, she won't Cause any harm to them.”
“And you're completely sure about that?”
“She wouldn't do anything unless you like, Purposefully hurt them a lot.”
Ollie took a deep breath.
This was going to be a lot to get used to.