The Gourmet's Lil'snack

Forgiveness and pets

"Come take a look!" Zalifer calls out to her.

"I'll go to the lookout tunnels. Y-you can come if you want." She waved for them to follow if they wished, then slipped into the tunnels. If they came, she'd lead them through to the lookout that looked out over the source of most of the commotion.

"Do those tunnels show a good view of the back garden?" Kaël asks out.

"Because Alex has already caught her in the backyard," Raymond informs, pointing out outside of the window as he takes out the phone and starts filming.

She paused at the tunnel entrance. "Hm....n-not really. I don't think any of the tunnels look outside. Just inside." She followed them to the window and looked out at the backyard with them to watch.

Kian was sitting on her knees waiting for the slap to happen but knew that the kid won't go easy on her.

"So I hear that you try to harm Thorne? Humbert's daughter?" Alex asks as he mantles the journal.

"How am I supposed to know that?!-" She tells him but receives a slap on her forehead.

"True! How are you supposed to know when you don't wait for her to explain herself before trying to squash her, huh?" He retorts.

Kian swallows nervously. Alex isn't easy to fool, she knows that...

"Then?" the kid asks her, slapping the chronicle in his hand.

"I shouldn't mistreat someone I just met and allow them to introduce themselves?" she tries, smiling patheticly, hoping he would take pity.

" you -slap- shouldn't -slap- mistreat -slap- someone you just met -slap- and -slap- allow them -slap- to introduce themself! -slap-" He repeats as he slaps at the right moment on her head. What a pity he doesn't take pity on her...

"Well...looks like I will give her stuff earlier than I thought..." Raymond noted.

Thorne winced at the slaps. Was that not too harsh? ....then again, demons probably didn't respond to normal punishment methods that worked on humans. She looked over to the other two. "H-has he done this to the others before and uh...d-does it really work?" Clearly this was something that had happened before.

"You should ask Humbert~" all three of them answer, almost in a sing-song voice.

"But don't worry about the slapping. It doesn't hurt much. Well except the ego. It is just a bit humiliating..." Raymond says as he sends the video to Humbert. He receives an answer quickly after.

"Looks like Humbert is ready to forgive her but won't as long as you don't forgive her first." Raymond passes the message to Thorne.

The small borrower flinched at that. She ducked her head. "....I-I don't have to go near her to do that....d-do I?" She glanced up. "...I-I'm willing to forgive her I just....d-don't want to be anywhere near her for a while..."

"Sure! Though, talk about it with your dad." He responds as he snaps his fingers, Kian belongings back to her room as both her and the kid come back inside the house. "Now if you excuse me, I have some work to do." The angel waves before closing his door.

"Let's go wait for Alex in his room, dudes." Zalifer encourages the other two to follow her.

Thorne nodded and followed Zalifer back to Alex's room. She sat back down where she'd been before, fiddling with her shirt.

Alex came back, still angry but not mad at last.

"Sorry but it was necessary..." he said after a while: