Night Light Lady

Oh, all he’d done was come to return some books! Halting in the doorway, elbow on the door, the lad looked to meet the source of the voice. Miss Marianne- she looked nervous, if not frightened by something. Immediately, worry rang true through his soul.

“Is that right, ma’am?” Cup piped up gently, shuffling a quartet of books in his arms. He knew for a fact one of them was overdue by three days’ time, and counted out the fee to pay it off prior to setting foot out the door. “Course, I can keep secrets– But is somethin’ the matter..?”

 Mugman had followed in hopes to get some new books for himself – but he supposed, anywhere he followed his brother, trouble would inevitably come for them. At least they were always able to face it together.

 “Oh gosh.. what’s gone ‘n happened now, miss?” Shuffling his feet in his nervousness, he could only guess as to what’d happened now. He could only hope it wasn’t something that would get them into a mess again… 

The librarian did trust the cup boys, and was rather fond of them, so she went under the desk and pulled out a musty old grimoire that seemed to be of the Devil's making. She brought the two little cups close and brought her voice down to a low whisper.

It was time to tell them everything.

The woman squeaked in surprise, dropping her book and turning on her heel. When she found out it was only Cala, she sighed and held her hand to her heart, blushing slightly.

“G-Goodness, Cala… don’t scare me like that..! B-But I’ve been doing quite fairly. I would hope that it also applies to you?”

『🌊』The mermaid chuckled, it wasn’t her intention to scare her like that making her drop her book.

"O-Oh, it's no trouble at all, Cala. I've always been quite t-timid... one of the drawbacks of being a librarian, isn't it?

『🐙』" ‘𝐸𝓁𝓁𝑜 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑒, 𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒲𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝐵𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉! 𝒽𝑜𝓌'𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃?“

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