where are you, christmas?

❛  oh, hello there !   i’m going to deliver cards to everyone on my street. would you like to come with me ?  ❜     held in both paws, paddington’s case – which was usually filled with marmalade – was now filled with christmas cards ! … and also marmalade, because he knew he would work up an appetite eventually. 

      “ so, as a ninja, what do you do? and if you are a ninja, can i be one, too “ the curious girl enquires, her brows knitting together as she looks the stranger over; a who he was not, that she could see, but who would turn someone this interesting away? certainly not she. 

      “ hurry up, somebody might be coming! “ the young who calls up to the other, trying to be a good lookout, but too worried that they might get caught out -- her mother had enough mischief on her plate with her brother’s antics, cindy didn’t want to add to that.

      “ i think it’s a bit much, to tell you the truth, “ cindy leans in, whispering conspiratorially, nose wrinkling a little as she inspects the elaborately decorated cake in a box that her mother had asked her to collect, “ we won’t even be allowed to eat it, it’s purely for show. but what does it taste like? i simply need to know. “