Free

The petite blonde faery elf stowed the velum seed packets in her basket along with the blue rose bulbs, and put her new bracelet on her arm, admiring it in the light as Horo continued to noisily eat the curious candies in front of her.

"Want one?" he asked, finally. "It'd be on the house. No one comes here for candy. Kind of a waste unless I eat them and I have far to many for just myself. I enjoy my teeth, and if I ate all of them I wouldn't have to worry about chewing ever again."

She looked up and smiled at the offer, then suddenly froze, mouth parted, completely entranced for a moment by the swirling, radiant varicoloured lolly. The hard candy rope wrapped into a circle, the bright colors spun and danced throughout the sugary confection like an aurora borealis.

"No real distinguishable flavor sort of just sweet but its free right?" Horo said.

"They say the best things in life are," she replied dreamily, and nodding her gratitude, she accepted the rather large lollipop from him.

She held it up close to her face, twisting it back and forth in front of her eyes, studying its glittering, kaleidoscopic appearance before sliding it into her mouth. It tasted sweet, but otherwise the flavour was elusive, just as he described it. She would have thought with all those colours that the taste would be far more vivid and rich. "Where do these come from, Horo? Who made them? You know, I think they would go really good with a cup of tea."