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The new shipment had come in only a couple of days ago.
Revy had always wanted pets. She even had lamented this to her lover, Balalaika, before.
She never had thought too much about it, but she had.
Her father, naturally, would never have let her have a pet, and if Revy had ever obtained a pet, that pet would have been beaten to death by her joke of a father.
So, Revy had never dared to bring an animal into the apartment where she had stayed with her father.
Now at the time, Revy had thought about having a dog or a cat.
Not even close to what she had now.
When Abrego’s lot brought in the shipment and Balalaika intercepted it, taking hold of the shipment and “seeing Abrego’s men off,” Revy hadn’t thought all too hard about what was in the crates.
That was, till the crates were open and not just Revy, but her and Balalaika’s kids, Hansel and Gretel, looked over the creatures within those crates.
Revy noticed that Balalaika noticed that the three of them were fascinated by the animals that were brought in through the crates.
So, yeah, the four of them now had a bunch of exotic pets.
That fucking happened, sure.
Anyway, in Balalaika’s office, there were now a few tanks that were home to a bunch of exotic animals.
Two large tanks were home to Pac-man frogs. Pac-man frogs needed to be kept in separate tanks, unless you wanted them to eat each other.
In the meantime? There was also a large red foot tortoise.
Apparently, a huge portion of the animals that Abrego had had brought in, were brought in forcefully from South America to Thailand.
Yeah, on top of everything else, Revy had almost immediately, picked up the large tortoise that she had seen in the crate and had said loudly that she was keeping the “oversized fucking doorstop with a shell” for herself.
Balalaika had snickered and rolled her eyes at this, as Hansel and Gretel had scrambled over to inspect the tortoise that Revy had picked up.
Because why wouldn’t they? It was a potential pet.
So, this was now why Balalaika’s home was not just home to herself and her men, and her lover, Revy, and her and Revy’s unofficially adopted children, Hansel and Gretal, but also to a group of trafficked, adoptive animals; the two Pac-man frogs, Shawn and Jeff-Revy named them, needless to say, and the red foot tortoise, Jenny.
As Revy was beginning to regularly say, “well, that fucking happened.”
Besides, the kids were happy, as well as Revy was happy, so, Balalaika supposed she couldn’t see it as too much of a setback.