The Gourmet's Lil'snack

Raymond Glas

"Oh I'm sure he does..." Humbert swallows her out of fright at this harsh intrusion before freezing and slowly turns his head to Raymond who observes him coldly.

Humbert wasn't the only one who got spooked. Thorne yelped as she was swallowed, squirming on the way down. She didn't stop her descent this time, but she did squeak as she slipped into his stomach. The little borrower moved around to sit up and press at his walls with her small hands, ears low and tail puffed up slightly. She kept quiet out of fear and concern.

Humbert stayed quiet until Raymond raised an eyebrow at his silence. Oh, maybe he doesn't know about Thorne! He slowly dares to relax.

"Hi Ray-"

"Get her out of there and come back here. Both of you." he orders as he puts down a bag full of Chinese food that he takes out while coming home.

But she just got there... he thought but at the hardening glare of the angel, he hops on his feet and goes to the bathroom to heave her out.

She could slightly hear the conversation going on outside, and with the quick movements she felt from Humbert she had a good idea of what was going on. She waited patiently to be let out, trying to gently rub at the walls around her in a weak attempt at trying to calm him down.
If Raymond already knew about her now, then maybe she could help! Maybe she could make sure he didn't hurt Humbert or treat him too harshly....maybe.
She still wasn't really sure why she cared so much about someone who had eaten her twice now, but she did. "H-Humbert? A-are you okay?"

No. Not really. His second stomach is twisted in anxiety. He is as white as paper.
"I'm fine..." he whispers back, his hand on his belly. He would have appreciated the rubs if he wasn't in such a hurry.

As soon he enters the bathroom, he starts to hurl her out and quickly but also gently wash her before enveloping her in a towel and goes back to the office.

Thorne still felt strange about being spit back up. She tried to look up at him, but with how he was quickly getting her cleaned up she had to close her eyes until he had her on the towel. She didn't have time to attempt to comfort him and had to simply wait until he let her out....again. Not wanting to make anything worse, she stayed still inside the towel, anxiety twisting her own stomach into knots.

He still knocked on the door and waited for Raymond's permission to enter. When he entered, the desk was now mostly free of papers beside the Raymond works, the food was taking the majority of the remaining space on the table.

"Sit down." he invites in an authoritarian tone, showing a chair that wasn't here before with his hand.

Humbert put her in a safe spot on the desk and sat down. Raymond invites to start eating the food since he knows just how hungry the demon is. And observe the borrower.

And what a shock. Contrary to the Raymond she sees in the picture, the present Raymond looks like he has traversed a lot of tough moments in his life. He still has the same ravenous hair but it is longer and is tied into a low ponytail, most hair has fallen on one side of his face. Those sapphire eyes have lost their innocent light and have a tired expression in them, along with those dark bags under his eyes. He also looks thinner as proven by his hollow cheek. And has his signature cigarette fit between his lips as he lights it up before he breathes in the smoke and releases a second later.

Thorne shook her head a little as she was set on the table, now mostly dry from being in the towel. Still, she didn't entirely get out of the towel and instead favored leaning slightly more towards Humbert's general direction.
She knew better than to get too close with food nearby, but she wasn't sure how she felt about being near Raymond yet.
He looked....very different from the pictures. For now she stayed silent, unsure what to do or say. Instead, she waited for one of them to speak up first. Her ears were low and her tail slightly puffed up, twitching behind her.

As Humbert bites down on one of the ravioli his hunger comes back, now fully conscient of the danger he put Thorne in as he keeps to wolf down the food in front of him.

Raymond takes a few more breaths of his cigarette still observing the tiny.
"your name and story." he demanded, wanting to know her origin and how she ended up here.

She ducked down into the towel a little as Raymond addressed her. She glanced at Humbert for a second before glancing down.
"I-I....m-my name is Thorne and um....I-I used to live in a restaurant. H-Humbert came to critique the place I guess a-and while everyone was rushing around I um...." She looked down at her hands and fiddled with them awkwardly.
"I-I was watching the chefs a-and I fell onto the plate going out to him....n-nobody noticed me there until um....I-I got to his table and uh...." Her ears lowered, looking at the gluttony demon nearby. She didn't want to lie but she also didn't want to get him in trouble.
The little borrower ducked her head, fidgeting as she tried to think of how to at least word the next part to get Humbert in the least amount of trouble without lying.

"And I eat her. Bringing her with me." Humbert completed. He can see that she is trying to not put problems on him.

"...Interesting... Ironic but interesting." Raymond commented. "And before? Or did you live your life entirely in a restaurant?"

She rose a brow slightly at Raymond. Ironic because he was a gluttony demon, or something else? The little borrower then frowned and looked down.
"I....d-don't remember a lot of it before the restaurant. W-we wandered around a lot a-and I think my parents mentioned the family being mostly outdoor borrowers before we moved to the restaurant. W-when I got older, most of them moved when they started setting out rodent traps...." She fidgeted. "I....I-I was out gathering supplies and ran late....when I came back everyone had already left and....I-I lived alone there until....a-a couple days ago...."

The angel took a breath of his cigarette and lean back on his seat. "I see... And why did the two of you break in my office?" He finally asks, making Humbert freeze for a second.

"uuuhhhhhhh... We came here because..." The words go missing in the head of the demon and he looks at Thorne for help, hoping she would help him say the truth.

Thorne looked up at Raymond, then to Humbert, then sighed. She got up and went over to her bag which had fallen on the desk earlier when Humbert had grabbed her.
It was still there, thankfully, and she pulled one of Tatiana's journals and a drawing of Raymond from it, showing both to him.
"I asked him to help me find out what happened to the borrower who was last here. Coming in here was a last resort if we couldn't find any other information around the house."

Multiple emotions go on Raymond's face: surprise, anger, grief, and loneliness.
"huh. Truly, those kinds of events make you want to start to believe in Destiny or Fates." he said with an angry smile but it was not directed to the other two but himself.
"And? What did you discover?" He asks this time his smile held some sort of satire line.

She looked up at him. The little borrower still wanted to know what happened, but she didn't know what the emotions on his face meant.
With a sigh, she told him about everything they'd learned except for the part about Tatiana having a crush on him. She also told him about how the very last entry in the journal ended on the day before Humbert and Kian apparently moved in.
"And....that's about it....." She wanted to tell him about Tatiana's crush on him, but some part of her worried that it would only hurt him more right now to know that.

Raymond stayed quiet for a moment, eyes closed.

Humbert exchanges a worried look with Thorne. "So...can we know what happens?" He dares to ask.

The angel looked at him but stayed quiet. Then he smiles a cruel one.