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“Watch the counter, Kiki, we could have more patrons than usual today!” A shrill voice called out from behind the kitchen doors, a young witchling sighed before responding with a sound, “Yes, mother!” and manning the counter.
It was one of those days in
Gawrakuni where they hold those extravagant parades through the entirety of Ever After in the honour of…something..? Kiki had never really paid any mind to history, anyway.
With an annoyed huff, the witch placed both elbows on the countertop and massaged the tiredness out of her face. She needed to give a bright smile to possible customers; no one likes a buzzkill especially if that buzzkill was supposed to take care of your whole stay.
Just when she was about to pull out her mirrorphone, she heard the front door bell ring. Through the door came two girls, around late high school age, ambled toward the front desk. Kiki scrunched up her face, something seemed oddly familiar about the pair but she ended up shrugging them off; maybe she saw them in some dream from years ago.
The much taller girl was sloped over the much shorter girl, almost ready to fall onto the floor. Kiki greeted the two with a bright smile and asked them to wait a moment so that she could fetch her mother (who was the only one who knew how to use that ancient cash register they had, why couldn't they replace it already?).
The three heard the many, many sounds of slamming pots and pans before a much older witch got behind the counter.
“How may we help yo‒” The older woman’s voice trailed off as she stared at the pair with wide eyes. An awkward moment of silence passed until the woman gently shoved Kiki toward the counter, an attempt to get
her
to take the guests in instead (this only made the younger witch wonder why her mother had even told her to call her when guests arrived.).
“May we have a,” The short blonde chuckled, the familiar scent of a
Boulevardier hit her nose, “A room? Just for today and uhh…tonight too, yeah.”
The one slumped over giggled.
“Of course! May we have a name to put the payment on?”
“Apollo Charming.”
Ah, so the girl was a Charming.
With a few clicks on her keyboard, Kiki put it under the name’s tab and handed the key over to the pair. The two women thanked the owners before lovingly staring at each other and waddling their way to their chambers.
“Why’d you go all silent? Thought
you
wanted to take in the customers.”
“Kiki, love, do you have
any idea who those two were
?”
“One of ‘em’s a Charming, so what?”
“Kiki! That was Raven Queen and Apple White!”
Raven Q-? Apple Wh-? Why the hex were they sharing a room togethe- oh.
Oh.