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It was the beginning of summer. The sun was hot, the air was hot. You were (physically) hot. So no. You did not want to be here, at Eclipses’ Used Car Court. With its tacky castle gates and silly medieval look, and the-absolutely-can-fry-an-egg-on parking lot full of less than reputable looking vehicles.
At all.
No. You’d rather be at the Carmania next door. Actually you’d rather be at the nicer modest looking dealership down the block getting a nice daily drive for a reasonable price.
Actually You’d rather…so many things but…
A reasonable price was not in your budget. In fact you practically had no budget. Which was why you were here in the first place. Your first car had been a hand me down anyways.
Actually.
The reason you were here in the first place was because your stupid car got into a crash that your shitty insurance said was totaled after. You supposed, at least. That you were lucky that you weren’t injured, and neither was the other party who was absolutely at fault and even said so. At least you had a sort of emergency vehicle fund. Which was mostly made up of insurance money that wasn’t being used to take care of the medical needs of which there weren’t.
You supposed you could rent a car. But the idea didn’t quite sit right with you. And there were some (questionable) reasonable reviews of the dealership you were just entering. At least they used that CarCarp,Fox…Fax animal…What was it the Gecko with the cars? Maybe you should have done more research like the internet said but did you?
Noooooo.
Immediately the moment your foot hit the blacktop from the entry sidewalk you could see two goofy looking robots exiting what was the office building and coming toward you. Was it too late? You look behind you and debate for a split second leaving and just doing the rental thing when your hand gets scooped up
“Hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooo! And Welcome to Eclipses Car Court! I am Sun and I’ll be more than happy to help Be your Knight in Shining Armor to help you select the noble two ton steel steed of your fairy tale dreams!” Sun, the very…well obviously sun centric dealer was shaking your hand like he was trying to help you fly. Away. From Here. He was dressed well enough. Khaki slacks, belt , white shirt and cute tie with clouds and balloons on it with a cute gold sun smiley face tie clip. He was probably fun around the office. Seemed like a nice guy. The other wore similar, navy slacks, light blue shirt, silver moon tie clip with no facial features on his plain navy tie. His sleeves were roled up neatly and he waited patiently for his solar companion which was very obvious that this was Moon. Whoever actually owned these robots had a celestial thing apparently. Weird choice with the castle theme. But Okay.
He still shook your hand but with much more grace, “And I am Moon.”
What did you just think? Of course He is Moon. Absolutely Of course.
Sun smiled and giggled like a really good joke had been told as he took your hand and led you inside. “Come on! Let’s get you inside before your shoes melt to the parking lot.”
You let him pull you into the…reasonable air conditioning that still smelt oddly stale. In a weird comforting way with the air freshener plug that actually looked recent instead of left there for months.
There were two other staff members. A chicken with huge but cute earrings, and what looked like a bear speaking to a small child. A child you recognized as the kid who sometimes appeared in the commercials on the local networks. Huh.
Sun leads you to an actually well kept desk in the corner next to two windows and a cut out of Eclipse himself saying the slogan of “Let us help you find the two ton Steel Steed of your Fairy Tale dreams.” Fun. Moon sits in the desk chair next to Sun’s desk. His was sparsely decorated in comparison to Sun’s, who had of course a bowl of what looked like all the citrus flavored mini lollipops in a bowl all meticulously pointing their sticks up. Upon closer inspection you could see that the two were actually very close. Partners? Maybe even married. They were actually pretty cute photos. All decorated with stickers and plastic rhinestones and the like. Moon smirks when he catches you looking while Sun rifles with some paperwork for a moment.
You can’t help but smile back. Happy for the two of them even if you had only known them for all of two minutes. It was just kind of nice to see that sort of relationship. Unless it was a bit to get people to buy cars, even if it was kudos for the commitment to the bit.
Sun hummed a cheery tune that you identified as the jingle for the dealership as he sat up and faced you with that bright grin, “Alright then So what kind of car were you looking for?”
And that’s where you blanked and Moon’s smirk seemed to grow.
Ah…you hadn’t thought about that now had you?