The Gourmet's Lil'snack

A Small Peek

"Can you tell me? How is it to live in the walls? The life of a borrower." He asks, putting Humbert's head aside.

"Well, the average life of a borrower is very different from my life right now. It also depends on what kind of borrower you're talking about. I'm a house borrower, so I live in a house with humans." She rested her head down on the pillow. "For one thing, you normally wouldn't be able to know I even exist. Neither would Humbert or any of the others. It's a big rule that we're not supposed to interact with humans." She looked up at him, glad she'd broken that rule.
"It's also a lot of work. There's not many lazy days. We have to figure out our human's schedules so we can find the right times and places to borrow supplies like food or paper clips." She sighed. "The early days of borrowing are especially busy because you gotta make the tunnels to get around, find a good spot to make your home, all of that. It's also a lot of fighting with any pests like spiders and mice. Rats are the worst. If you're moving in and there's rats? May as well risk finding a new place."

Alex knows that moving in can be a lot of work but in the borrower's way it is even more. He shivers at the rats. Even when he is human, he doesn't want to deal with them either. "Wow and also understandable... So that means you have to make new tunnels when you come here?"

At this, she rubbed her neck awkwardly. "Well...n-not really. Apparently there used to be a borrower who lived here sometime before me. I-I'm not sure how long ago that was exactly but uh....I-I had it easy and could just use their old tunnels and home. M-most I had to do was learn everyone's schedules."

"Oh...well that is quite nice too! Just need to clean up and see if something can work or not!" he nods, laying down again. "Do you still want to be in the middle or...?"

She nodded. Cleaning had been a pain still. So much dust. She's just glad there weren't any spiders. "If I can, y-yeah."

He moves out of the fort, letting her move freely inside before going back in. "Did you enjoy making a fort?"

She got into place between them, leaving plenty of room for Alex. She looked up at him and smiled as he came back. "Y-yeah, it was a lot of fun. Maybe we can do it again someday. I-I won't be big enough anymore, b-but we could maybe do a small version."

He chuckles. "Yeah!" looks like the many nights he spent making forts at the orphanage turn to be quite handy. "Let's try to get more sleeping time, alright?"

Thorne yawned as he mentioned that and nodded. "Sleeping sounds great. Goodnight, Alex." She snuggled under the covers and purred softly. "Sweet dreams."

"Sweet dream..." he yawned before closing his eyes again.

She smiled, falling asleep after a little while. Hopefully, nothing would wake them again until morning.

Sensing Thorne near, Humbert cuddles closer to her in his sleep. Nothing happened after that and all of them could get good sleep.

Thorne purred in her sleep as Humbert snuggled her. Her tail wagged softly and one hand held Alex's like before. She didn't wake up until the next morning. First she looked around to see if anyone was awake. If not, she'd try to get out of bed to start some breakfast for everyone.

Alex and Humbert were still asleep. Though there is some sound from the kitchen from the coffee machine.

Thorne slipped out, checking on them for a moment before peeking into the kitchen.

It was Raymond, who was making some coffee. He turns his head in her direction when she enters the kitchen. "Good morning?"

She blinked, ear flicking. Honestly, she'd expected it to be him. Who else would be up so early in the morning? "Morning. How'd you sleep?" She stated in the doorway so she could keep an eye on Alex and Humbert. After last night she trusted him to not eat the boy, but she still felt the need to keep an eye out, if only for Raymond's sake.