New Friends, New Pacts

"What do you mean you're going alone?!" Eliza shouted.

"But Big Bro promised!" Lina joined in on the verbal tirade against Jack's updates to the plan. "Big Bro promised to take us around town. You promised!"

"Lina, please understand--"

"Jack, you're not going to break your promise with Little Lina, are you?" interjected Maura, siding with the other two.

"Guys, it's not that I'm breaking the promise, I'm only tweaking it," reasoned Jack. "I'll take you all shopping after I get back. We can even do it in Estonya, the elven capital to make up for missing it here."

Lina's frown flipped upside down as her eyes lit up. "Elves? We'll go shopping with elves?"

"Yup. There you'll find things that don't exist anywhere else in the world," Jack added with a convincing smile.

"Yay! We'll go shopping with elves!" Lina's simple mind wasn't hard to convince.