Advent Noion

9

she sits up, excited, "what! you mean you saw the surface?"

aufri grins, "kinda, in this one dream i was-"

~pomf~

she launches her pillow at little aufri, knocking him onto the floor, "eh! who cares about your dreams!"

jfion rolls over to face the two, "i had a strange dream where-"

aufri interrupts him, "no! my dream is better than-"

she holds the pillow down, smothering aufri, "what did you dream about?"

he rolls onto his back, staring at the ceiling, "it was pure fantasy..."

he continues, arcing his hands above him, "mountains of noion."

aufri climbs from beneath the pillows, spitting out downy feathers, "beh! i'll tell on you next time!"

she laughs aside aufri's insult, glaring at him, "ha! will you even be alive next time?"

-

aufri buries his face into a bowl, "mmm! blag is the best!"

she puts down her spoon, looking to jfion, "this is nice and all, but isn't it a little boring?"

he continues eating silently.

she examines the frothy mixture, "how many days have we had blag soup?"

he sighs indifferently, "what do you expect? we have no lak. i don't want to ask lepfna for anything more, i feel bad enough already."

aufri adresses the pair, "why not get jobs?"

she looks to aufri, smiling, "interesting, but i have a better idea..."

-

he enters the warehouse, "have you guys seen my-"

she stands back, admiring his black shawl wrapped all over aufri, "yeah, just like that... perfect!"

aufri poses atop a crate, "am i really invisible?"

she grins, "i can't even see you right now! aufri, where are you?"

aufri runs circles around her, laughing, "haha! you can't see me!"

she pretends to look around for aufri, "wow, amazing!"

jfion looks at the pair, concerned, "what are you doing?"

she looks at him, trying to contain her laughter, "ehh, ha..."

aufri begins creeping toward him.

as aufri approaches, he impatiently grabs his shawl, "what were you two doing with this?"

startled, aufri runs back to her, whining, "master, he saw me! it failed!"

she winks at him, "he can only see you because he's the dark magician who created it, remember?"

he shakes his head, "you're both idiots."

-

she pushes aufri forward, "go, aufri! begin the operation!"

aufri runs off into the marketplace, disappearing into the darkness.

silence.

he asks her, "will it really work?"

she sighs, "yeah, it's dark. he might as well be invisible right now."

-

he shakes her awake, "what's taking him?"

she looks around, confused, "huh, the... is he not back yet?"

he shakes his head, "no. do you think he was caught?"

she stands up, laughing, "haha, i hope not, but let's go find out."

they stretch their legs before entering the marketplace to look for aufri.

she trips over something, "ow! what was-"

she notices the shawl, "hey, he's over here!"

he pulls his shawl up off the ground, "i'll take this."

she rolls aufri over, looking for any food on him, "hey, aufri, where's the food?"

aufri groans, rubbing his stomach, "ughh, i can't move..."

she repeatedly kicks aufri, "ah, worthless! you selfish midget! you didn't even leave us any!"

aufri cries out, covering his face, "ow! ahh, stop! forgive me, master!"

-

she tightens the apron around her waist, "so, it's come to this..."

the man with two buddies on either side of him calls to her, "hurry up! i'm thirsty over here!"

she picks up their order, muttering under her breath, "you annoying bastards-"

the man yells back at her, "what was that?"

she smiles, nervously, sliding their orders onto the bar. "eh, nothing! here you are."

the man whistles as she turns around to leave, "whew! nice ass ya-"

the second man shoves him aside, "idiot! she's not some-"

the man pushes him off the barstool onto the aisle floor, "who ya callin an idiot!"

she groans, turning back to shout at the pair, "ugh, stop! you two are giving me a headache!"

the third man lowers his glasses, staring into her eyes, "no, you stop! you're giving me a-"

the third man dramatically grabs his chest, "heartache!"

she frowns, walking away "talk about lame!"

the second man rolls around the floor, laughing, "hahaa! what was that! heart, ha! heartache?"

-

~crunch~

she reclines against the pillowed floor, "so why was i the only one to find a job?"

aufri smiles, "because i'm only eight!"

she nods, "okay, you're excused."

~crunch~

he gets up, noion in hand, intent on escaping, but she grabs him, "hey, what about you!"

he coughs, looking around the room for an excuse, "kah! ...i'm sick? that's right, kah! kah!"

she squints at him, "you better be, if you expect to keep crunching on those in the future."

he gulps.

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