#gravisludos

Nova slowly looked up from her coffee and her book, only to glare at the woman sitting across from her, on the same table, in the café she was trying to relax in. Hard to when a woman was staring at her. She had probably spaced out but Nova found it very difficult to focus on her book. “Okay, why are you staring?”

Two weeks. Two weeks of contractors and builders and dust and noise. And even with all that completed to the pairs liking, the human was still running around the ground floor of the four story building, unpacking box after box and rearranging plant after jar after teapot of inventory. The shop’s opening was to be in two days, and the shipment had just arrived from their hometown - which meant it was late, of course.

For the black feline, narrowed gold eyes and clearly irritated tail slapping directed at the human running around the cluttered store, it was enough. Enough time spent in dirt and noise and clutter and forced socializing with brainless human men with hammers and wood and pipes. They both needed someone more interesting to interact with. But being in a completely new city with no acquaintances meant no idea where to start. Yet Smudge would not wait until the shop opened, hoping that someone interesting would wander through those mundane doors.

Hopping down from the chair and his plush red pillow against the shops front window display, Smudge sauntered over to the decorative door installed unassumingly against the side wall of the shop. He yowled, pawing at the door.

“Not for another two weeks,” the woman replied, barely taking a second glance as she continued placing jar after jar on the shelves across the room.

Snorting his displeasure, Smudge paced around the room, sniffing each box (barely stopping himself from hopping in one), until the woman demanded he climb off one of the displays. For someone usually so even-tempered and sedentary, she was rather finicky today, and the cat was officially done.

Going to the front door of the shop, Smudge gently shook his head and the bell on his collar that was usually silent, jingled. The door obediently opened, and the only sound the cat heard was his human calling out his name in question before the door shut behind him.

Sauntering down the unfamiliar street - Smudge hadn’t the interest to explore it until now, instead familiarizing himself with his new four (well, five) story home - the black feline expertly avoided the humans walking, especially one of the kits who called out “kitty!” and tried to reach for him. Smudge inspected each store front, but they were all filled with the usual human nonsense. But just as he reached the corner of the second block, he sniffed. Something smelled faintly like blood.

Curiosity struck him as his head turned across the street from the one his new home was, to the store on that corner. Tall windows showed myriads of bookshelves inside, and Smudge saw the glint of jewels and metal shine against the window panes. As he crossed the street in line with the humans, the door of the shop opened as someone exited, and Smudge felt magical energy blast out following the human.

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Valdís was the goddess of DEATH, she was the grim reaper for fucks sake, so she didn’t exactly look too kindly on the vampire race as a whole who tended to avoid death by being immortal. So when she heard that the king of all vampires, the very first, Count Vlad Dracula, had resurfaced, she had to go check it out for herself.

She discovered he was living with another vampire in a store in San Francisco. She also discovered that due to a bond they shared, they had not only created a vampire child, but had also lost said child since Valdís had to collect its soul.

And since she was a petty bitch who hated vampires, she decided to mess with Vlad.

Valdís had taken the infant vampire’s soul and given it a physical form, making her look how she should’ve looked had she been fully grown and living. In fact, Valdís even managed to animate it, making her move and sound like a real baby to make it even harder for Vlad to see her again. When she walked into the store holding the vampire baby, she didn’t expect to see the other female vampire standing there... let alone expected her to be pregnant again.