#pixie problems

You’re still not entirely sure how they’re getting in here, but the pixies seem to be a fact of life by now.  As is their tendency to steal things from the food hall and exchange them for other things that you find distasteful.  Perhaps there is a better solution, though.

And so, you spent a few hours in the dark of the night, your rear half sticking out of wall panels as you install a few new robotic systems, and place a miniature balcony in an alcove about ten feet off the ground.  There are very delicate tiles and railings, decorative elements made from soft carved stones and moulded starry blue acrylic, tiny working sinks and counters and tables and seats, and tiny pneumatic vending machines built into the walls.

There is a small poster pictorially explaining the usage of the machines, and how they can be used to exchange seeds for coffee creamer (in human-thumb or pixie-fist sized containers), sugar, cooked vegetables, or fairy-sized blank paper journals.  There is also a wall-screen, displaying which seeds are currently most and least prized.  Seeds for crops that the city currently farms are not among the ones that will be accepted here, for various reasons, but...

..there is ever so much biological variety out there, and it would be nice to have ready samples of every plant, with plenty of genetic variation.  And it would also be nice if they stopped leaving dead animals next to the coffee machine.  Only time would tell if this strategy worked though.