"Let me look at the lease," Ellie said and went through her computer files. "According to this we can add two rooms to the back of the building, so two magically extended rooms should be okay. If we build small rooms and enlarge them, we only have to pay for the area of the pre-expanded add-ons," she read off. "What are you planning?" she asked as she looked up.
"That's good news, since I have two types of items to sell. Do you think we should do both rooms? One for the kids and one for the teens. That would mean hiring more people. Do we have the budget for that? They wouldn't have to be as trained as the ones we have now, however, it might be a good idea to do so anyway, so they can help pick up slack when it gets busy up front," the immortal said, tapping his fingers on the desk in thought. The Christmas rush had been a nightmare.
Ellie smacked the tapping fingers and looked over the budget. "We're doing really well, the profits are amazing. I never thought I'd see the day when magicals would use electronics. So I would say yes to all the above."
"Wonderful." He rubbed his hands together. "We're going to do a promotional on the pranks next week. Do you think you can get the rooms up and ready by then, or should we hold off?"
"I'm not going to like that… promotional, am I?" again with the arched eyebrows.
"It'll only be a few harmless pranks," Hydrus defended with a pout.
"Fine, whatever, you owe me a raise," the manager waved it off; there really was no stopping him anyway.
"Great, you get that set up and I'll go talk to Jesse about the inventory," Hydrus said, standing and giving his manager a wave he left the office and made his way to the repair counter. "Jesse, just the man I wanted to see," he greeted the shorter, skinny, dark-haired man, who was looking rather bored, behind the counter.
"What's up, boss?" Jesse asked, perking up at the man who looked like he was going to give him work.
"I'm going to open a kid's annex with toys that work on magic. The only problem I have is that if the toys don't work the child could be named a squib and be hurt or worse. So what I need for you to do is, before we sell them, fix them to work for anyone or at least anyone with squib level magic. Maybe have the runes run off ambient magic. I've worked out most of the figures, but I don't have the time like I used to. Do you think you can get me some up and running before next week? If not give me a time estimate and I'll hold off the opening," the immortal rambled on as he pulled all his notes from his pocketspace and handed them over to the excited repairman. He had weighed the pro and cons and decided that it would be better not to have them run off the child's magic. While it would tell if a child was a squib, it could also lead to the deaths of children, and he didn't want that on his conscience.
The skinny man looked over the notes and got more excited as he read. He could do this, since the notes were almost complete. "Do you have prototypes?"
"Yeah," Hydrus said and pulled both the magic using ball and the prototype he fixed up a few days ago and gave them to Jesse.
"Give me a few days and I'll let you know, but I should get them out on time."
"Thanks, Jesse, do your best." And with that the immortal left the store for home. He told the others what he was planning and they all sat and came up with pranks for the Alley until dinner. When they were done with the duck dinner Hydrus cooked, they decided to put off more planning until the next day and settled down for a good ole family movie night.
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