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Garrett was quite familiar with the phrase, ‘curiosity killed the cat,’ but he was equally aware of the remainder of it that people just loved to leave off: ‘but satisfaction brought it back.’ He couldn’t say what exactly prompted his curiosity this time, but he had learned to trust his urges.
So, with only the barest hint of care for subtlety, he tracked the curiosity through the store. And it was going relatively well, until the stranger went ahead and pulled back the products that had been dividing them, hiding his prying eyes from view.
“Well, hi there.” Garrett greeted with a charismatic grin, indifferent to the fact that he’d so obviously been caught out. Conversation was just as effective at sating his curiosity as observation. Moreso, even, if his quarry ended up being as friendly as he himself was.
