First she noticed it while picking up a history book. When she realized that it was a historical romance, Hinata figured that it had just been mis-shelved for some reason and went to put it with the other romances from the same era and thought nothing of it ( Read more... )

Yei was racing around the store today and Hinata thought that she was chasing the dust bunnies but wasn't entirely sure of that. She didn't bother to deliberately find out, however, as some things were more entertaining as mysteries and watching Yei be happy was enough to lift her mood slightly ( Read more... )

It was a quietly thoughtful Hinata that came to work today, with Yei quite content to be a sleepy little bundle of fur in her arms as she entered the shop. Blinking to adjust her eyes to being inside, Hinata set Yei down on one of the comfortable chairs, which earned her a half-open eye and a mew ( Read more... )

Alex had woken up to some rambling text message from Dean Stinson about seizing the day and taking advantage of the warm weather to set up something for everyone down on the beach. When he'd become the dean's lackey, he didn't know but he actually got to it. It wasn't his money he was spending, after all. The first thing he'd done was plaster ( Read more... )

Ender listened to radio every day, despite the large amount of mostly apocryphal information it provided. It wasn't in his nature to pass up on a source of information. As such, he'd managed to come to the conclusion something terrible had happened while Karla was gone ( Read more... )

There was something soothing about the quiet of the store, Hinata was of the opinion, and that made it feel a bit like a safe haven every week when she came in. After all, the worst that had ever happened to her while working was an argument and that, really, was nothing at all to complain about. Setting out cookies and beginning the tea so that it ( Read more... )

Hinata was… pretty certain that she was done all of her shopping for the year. But pretty certain wasn't one hundred percent certain and that meant she had a list of names and what she'd wanted to get for them out in front of her as she went down it carefully and crossed off those she knew she'd gotten ( Read more... )

It was a… relatively rare thing to find Hinata willingly on the phone, truly. It was an even rarer thing for her to be doing it without a single drop of nervousness showing, but that was what she was doing today, while patiently navigating her way through connections and transfers that would, in theory, eventually wind up with her finding out what ( Read more... )

Hinata was well aware that the holidays for this world were approaching--the largest, most consuming holidays, though the one they'd just had came close in her opinion--and that meant she was idly beginning her search for gifts but was in no rush ( Read more... )

Kittens, Hinata was fairly sure, were not supposed to make friends with dust bunnies. Chase them, of course. Pounce, roll, and fling themselves were all par for the course. But, as she knelt down and peered under one of the shelves only to be confronted with her kitten, sleeping, curled up with several dust bunnies and all of them content ( Read more... )