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Jendayi: *amazed and delighted as he holds things up. She'll even venture to point to specific things she finds exceptionally pretty.*

Darnell: */encouraging/ her to let him know what she likes - they'll find a few dresses and tops and a pair of jeans, then head for the dressing rooms*

Jendayi: *shy an uncertain, but they're let into the dressing room and she'll proceed to try things on and step out to model for Darnell with a HUGE GRIN on her face!*

Darnell: *also /grins/* You look very pretty, Jenny. *has already told her he'll be calling her that around others to avoid her unusual (though lovely!) name calling unnecessary attention to her*

Jendayi: *finally has tried on all the clothes he picked up for her. A few fit really well and look really nice. She brings all the clothes back out to offer up to him. That was fun, but he bought her food and toys yesterday, she's not going to ask him to buy her more, she's not expecting him to. She's just delighted with the whole process of trying on pretty things and being told that she's pretty*

*Darnell will take everything and they'll head back to the children's department, Darnell hanging back up most of what they'd taken, though he retains a few pieces, the ones that fit best. Then they'll head for the men's section.*

Jendayi: *when he doesn't put them all back* You're keeping those...?

Darnell: *crooked grin at her* If you're going to be staying here any length of time and going out and about, you'll blend better wearing clothes from around here.

Jendayi: *gazing up at him, her arms tighten around her owl and her eyes fill with tears.* Y-you're buying be clothes t-too?

Darnell: *grin softens a bit and he shrugs* Well, I don't have any little girls of my own to spoil, and my nieces are too far away.

Jendayi: *sniffles and buries her face in her owl’s head with a soft sob. It takes her a moment to regain some composure before she shifts to put her owl down and throw her arms around Darnell.* Thank you. Thank you. You’re a good person. Thank you.

*A passing young mother gives Darnell an approving smile, probably assuming him to be a new foster parent or at least some volunteer doing something good for an abuses victim. She doesn’t stay, but moves on to do her own shopping.*