While not as prolific and big a celebration as the Lunar New Year, Christmas being just around the corner had posed a bit of a dilemma for Cal; his sisters had already had plenty of time to go shopping for gifts whereas his schedule was less forgiving. Most unforgiving, in fact, and he only had a brief window of time in the middle of a shift to head the Auction of Oddities and peruse the items they had on display. It was highly unlikely he’d find anything of note there in terms of gifts for his sisters or for Halmeoni, but it was worth a try.

Reading the descriptions was…enlightening. The program offered quite compelling illustrations of the effects of the artifacts, and Cal was busy analyzing the piece of paper when a voice piped up next to him. “Jen-jang…” he muttered under his breath. The voice conjured up the sensation of being held down by vengeful plants. But it would be rude to ignore her completly, so after a moment’s hesitation, he said, “Perhaps the bracelet.” for no particular reason other than it was the description he was currently reading. “Though I have to wonder if being given the powers of an animagus is true or not.”

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