The Gourmet's Lil'snack

A change

In her head, she compiled all of the information she'd just learned with what she already knew about him. Sitting up, she quickly wrote all of this down in her new journal. Reading everything helped a bit, and in the end she came to her own conclusion. It was still a little hard to absorb and it was a bit shocking to see him eating someone else with no hope that person would be escaping like her, but that wouldn't change how she thought of him. As long as nothing changed with his actions towards her, she'd still feel the same when it came to him. Even being eaten.

The next morning, she kept a close eye on everyone's schedules again. She knew from her days here before and from living in the restaurant that weekends were always different from the rest of the week. So were holidays, but that wasn't important right now.

The weekend changes from time to time but it is mostly like usual, Alex is always the one who wakes up first and prepares every meal apparently. And the other resident eats with him if they can. Though the kid is often in the company of either Raymond or Humbert. Kian seems to live her life through the streams she makes. Is that healthy? Who knows!

Thorne made a note of what seemed to be more routine for weekends and set that next to the other schedule she'd made for during the week. Both were written in pencil so she could tweak it later if she needed to. She continued to write in her journals and even after what she witnessed with Humbert, she still would come up to him and say hi.

It was a little awkward for a couple of days, but even then things slowly slipped back to normal. Thorne liked to sit up on the bookshelf most of the time to watch everyone sometimes. She liked to just read, but having a nice spot for people to watch was nice too.

As things got a little more comfortable, she spent a little more time with Humbert when he was in his room. With permission of course. As for the others, she still avoided them. Alex seemed nice enough, but he acted strangely sometimes. Kian seemed cool and she would have loved to watch her stream at least once, but she seemed the most dangerous and thus was avoided as much as possible. Raymond....well she still thought he was kind of a jerk but she tried giving him a chance.

Humbert was relieved that she did try to at last avoid him. It was really awkward, that is for sure. He first complained to Raymond for telling her his other jobs which the angel simply shrugged it off while eyeing him, cigarette in mouth. It is not like Raymond can lie but still...
But after some weeks, Humbert was happy to see that Thorne seems to have gotten used to living here... And also it should be soon for her to "pay" her rent too, he remembers as he licks his lips

Her avoiding him wasn't so much for him as it was to help collect her own thoughts more. As much as she liked him over the others, it was a pretty big thing to discover about the guy she was letting eat her once a month for rent.

Speaking of which, she knew another month was coming up and she'd likely need to "submit her payment" soon. The question she had though was...when? She knew it was once a month, but she'd forgotten to ask any specific dates or times. Maybe she could ask today? She made her way through the tunnels to look for Humbert. Only when he was alone did she come out. "Humbert?"

"Hi Thorne! How are you doing today?" He asks as he sees her out of her hiding spot. Though she seems...reckless? Or maybe nervous?

"I-I'm okay, just...had something I wanted to clarify." She double checked that the coast was clear before coming out a little further. No matter how comfortable she got, she never went too far from her hiding places when not in Humbert's room. If someone started coming, she wanted to be able to hide right away.

"I-I figure uh...."rent" is coming up and I wanted to know if there were any....specific days or times when you wanted me to...p-pay? I-I don't think I ever asked before."