"Hmmm."

She flips through artists for a moment, then turns back to Mae. "Have you heard any No Doubt?"

"I have not! Is it good?"

It does love being introduced to new music!

"I like them!"

She puts on Tragic Kingdom.

Oh! It recognizes some of these songs! Fun! It likes it when that happens.

It happily begins dancing to the music as they cook.

So does Sable! And stir-fry steadily happens. Rice cooks, veggies and tofu fry, and before long everything's going onto plates.

"Where's cutlery?"

Mae moves to set the table. Helping makes it happy!

She points at a drawer full of utensils, next to the sink.

Perfect! It grabs forks and places them at the table, flopping down on one of the seats.

And Sable sets a plate in front of her, before sitting down next to her.

"That was fun," she says with a smile, digging in. "And good choices of spices."

Mae smiles. "Thank you!"

It takes a happy first bite of its food—she's right, the spices are good!

It hopes she doesn't mind it resting its elbows on the table: some people do, and it's apparently never learned not to.

Judging how she seems to be doing it too, it looks unlikely that she does.

"So, let's talk clothing styles and shopping options. Any ideas what sorts of things you want to wear?"

Oh gosh, what a good question! Mae queries its internal sense of fashion and what it aught to be wearing…

…And comes up with: "…Short shorts and crop tops in the summer, long, old-fashioned flowy skirts and blouses in the winter?"

"Adorable. Accessory preferences?"

Oh, not a problem? Great! Sable has gained more Excellent Person Points.

"…I don't really like hats, but barrettes and other hairclips are nice sometimes?

Sunglasses are good, if I can find cute ones? Especially if they're heart-shaped, but those are hard to find properly UV-coated.

I guess the main accessory I'd expect to want is painted nails? Not that that totally counts as an 'accessory', but it's what comes to mind…"

"Well. I both have a pretty solid collection of polish colors, and know two great nail salons around here. If there are any colors you want us to keep on-hand that I don't have, we can pick those up., but also mother-daughter salon visits sound like fun."

"As for the sunglasses, I'm not sure if anywhere is going to carry those with decent protection. We can try a couple little boutique places if the big chain stores don't have 'em, though. All told, it's sounding like we need to hit a big department store or Walmart, a beauty supply place if we're still missing any polish colors at that point, a couple glasses or accessory places to try for the shades you want, and then re-check to see if there's anything we're missing that wants another store."

"Oh, yeah the clothes are the important thing. The rest are just potential nice-to-haves."

Mother-daughter salon trips do sound nice. It smiles.

"We probably wanna focus on clothes first, and the rest can come later or if we happen to see something nice?"

Mae is apparently much more used to thrift shopping, where you find random assortments of everything wherever you go.

"That's what I'm thinking, yeah. I figure we start with maybe a department store, or one of the bigger brand clothing stores, and then divert from there to the little specialized stores if there are things we can't find."

Mae nods affirmatively.

"That makes sense to me. Should I get my coat back on?"

"Lemme get the dishes into the dishwasher, then sure. You can go start on that if you want, and I'll meet you in the entryway."

She picks up the plates and heads to the sink and the dishwasher.

"Sure!"

It takes a moment to get the coat on anyway: it's a long coat on the small girl.

Pretty soon Sable joins it in the entryway, pulling on her own coat and boots, before leading the way to the car.

"I should really replace the stereo in here, get one with an auxiliary port so I can have the whole music library, rather than just what I have on CDs. Oh well, something for another day. You wanna pick out a CD for the drive?"