Usually, Dante didn't do being up this early. Especially not on a Sunday, when 'early' was anything before noon. Today - this weekend - was different. He was restless, couldn't sleep, needed to get out ( Read more... )

Alluka blinked.

Everything in the shop was still purple. It was… a bit much ( Read more... )

"I brought you more stickers today!" Alluka announced happily, showing the stickers to... the stereo, yes. "Look at this one and this one. They're sparkly and puffy ( Read more... )

It had been an elephant plushie sort of day, so that was who was with her once Alluka had gone to class, like she was supposed to, and then headed to work, like she was supposed to.

She sat her elephant down on the front counter, looked at the spot where Milady's tank had been and hoped her fishy adventures were really fun and then, went about ( Read more... )

Wearing her ATs to work-and having taken the long way around the island to get there on them-had been fun, but it hadn't really left her tired, which was both good and bad because Alluka felt restless as she talked to the stereo for a bit, and then had tea with her toys ( Read more... )

Cookies!

The buildings were made out of cookies!

Mr. Bubbles observed that it was strange that cookie-buildings managed to stay warm but Alluka was more enthused about nibbling and trying to figure out what to wear.

What went with cookies?

Other than everything, obviously.

Demon Marcus is Open!

Shiemi was in the shop today, but you may have to get her attention. She failed a test in Demon Summoning at Cram School yesterday and has to make it up, so she's a bit buried in her books today.

But if you choose to come in out of the cold, it smells of warm peppermint inside the store, there's tea ready, and some pretty winter wreaths (now half ( Read more... )

"That's holiday music, right?" Alluka asked the stereo when she came in. It seemed happy that she asked, so it kept on playing the song it was on.

She didn't really know it, but it was about reindeer and animals were always pretty cute.

Her sweater wasn't all that cute, not by her usual standards, but it lit up and, in an odd way, reminded her of ( Read more... )

It had been a very strange week, all things considered ( Read more... )

There was sunlight! It was weirdAllu-Nika spent some time peering up at it with their four green eyes, their mouths smiling, even as they puzzled through the reappearance of the shiny thing that they couldn't figure out how to get ( Read more... )