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( there’s a clunk of a book falling to a table, which hits her device and causes it to start recording. )

Bother, I’ll get that in a moment… ( she mutters to herself and for a time it goes unnoticed to the housekeeper that the trinket is recording at all, as she’s still busying herself with dusting the shelf the book fell from. clearly it’s been far too long since this place had a proper and complete cleaning, she’s been trying, but the whole building needed a one over and it’s been taking a lot of time.

still!

Belle finally settles down to a chair in the front room of Rumpel’s shop, fanning herself with the collar of her dress as she tosses the rag to the table. ) So much work to do here, this is almost worse than Dark Castle was.

( it’s then that she finally notices the device and smiling to it, leans to grasp it. )

Well, well… I don’t suppose anyone wants to lend a hand with a bit of clean-up? ( she chuckles, considering it’s not really what one would normally call a ‘bit’ of a clean-up. ) I suppose I might as well serve this as a public announcement: anyone with severe dust allergens might want to avoid Rumpelstiltskin’s store — at least for another hour or two before I’ve finished with it.

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( Belle finds herself chuckling at the comment. )

It certainly won't, not at this point. It's gone far too long without being cleaned.

Did someone else stay here before you moved in?

[She was curious, if not then it also explains why it's so dusty.]

I'm not entirely certain. ( she gives a gentle shrug ) But it must have been used at some point, otherwise it's construction doesn't make much sense, does it?

You got a point there.

[She moves on over to the next surface, happily dusting away.]

Though I wonder what it was used for then.

Perhaps another store?

( she smiles, it's interesting to think of what might have taken place in here before. there are lots of options. )

Unless it's just housing dust. ( she chuckles )

[She laughed.]

I guess with all the shelves, it could have been a shop. Maybe something like hats.

[She wipes some dust away before putting the cloth on her leg, trying to now remove the dust from the cloth.]

Hats, mm. There's always use for hats.

( like Musa, she was cleaning dust off of her rag before returning to sliding the cloth along the shelves to collect even more of it. )

Or perhaps shoes.

I could see shoes being sold here.

[She thought of Stella for that brief moment and her love for shopping.]

Maybe even something like China.

[She quietly continues to dust once more.]

Edited 2012-06-26 12:52 (UTC)

Mm, it could be many a different thing. Or perhaps it was a library...

( that thought made her sigh happily. what Belle wouldn't do for a good book or two. )

I wouldn't put it past here really. I mean there are pretty much library's in almost every world.

Are there? I wonder if they have information on the other worlds within them.

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