It was early in the castle, very early. The halls basically abandoned aside from a few guards patrolling or kitchen staff waking up to make breakfast. The big heavy curtains in the halls were still draped over the windows, making sure no light or cold could seep in. Most doors were still closed and except for some snoring, it was eerily quiet.
Save for the quiet pitter patter of little feet.
Save for the little wobbling of a certain little inhabitant.
Even though the castle halls were nearly pitch black, the only traces of light being found in the dimly lit blue candles, the little princess wasn’t deterred. In fact she made her way around like she could see everything, which she could thanks to her dadda.
She walked wobbly but very determined to a big heavy door, slowly pushed it open and looked at her first challenge, the stairs.
She didn’t like stairs, they were big and she always had to sit down on her butt and go down that way. And it made her diaper so very itchy!
A big frown appeared on her concentrated face and within a flash she was down 6 floors.
Quickly recovering from the sudden teleport, she slowly resumed her journey.
Passing guards smiled as she passed them and gave her a little bow. So very polite they were, she liked that.
After passing some kitchen staff and rounding a few corners she finally arrived to her first destination, the kitchens.
She slowly pushed the swinging kitchen door open and waddled to where her coveted price was. In a rather clumsy way, she started climbing up the kitchen cabinets, putting her hands and feet on the handles.
When it became clear she’d never get on the counter that way, she flexed her little back muscles and out came her small tentacles that helped her climb the rest of the way.
There she finally saw at least one of her targets. The chocolate bars. Happily she waddled over to it and grabbed a milk chocolate one and a dark chocolate one in her tiny hands.
Granted they were the size of her face, she still held on to them tightly and began looking for her second target.
Luckily she didn’t have to look far as it was on the same counter. With love in her eyes she slowly stumbled over to the glass jar filled with golden brown cookies with little pieces of chocolate in them. So big, so ommy nommy!
She slowly grabbed it, but it was so heavy and it caused her to drop the chocolate bars!
With a big pout she sat down on the counter, crossing her little arms.
A big shadow fell over her and she looked up in curiosity. It was uncle Horror!
“Hello princess, yer looking for treats?” He smiled at her. He was always so nice to her.
She nodded, pointing at the bars and the cookie jar. Horror chuckled softly. “Too big eh? I’ll help ya get em upstairs.”
She gave him a big smile, half of her teeth still missing. They were coming though! Papa said she would grow into a big girl and it made his eyes all shiny and wet.
Horror gently picked her up, along with the bars and cookie jar and began walking back upstairs. On their way there they got a lot of curious stares and smiles, cooing at the little princess.
She gave them all wide eyed looks back, so curious as well about the big big world around her. Annoyingly her hair kept falling in front of her face, making it so she couldn’t see anything! Luckily uncle Horror adjusted the bow that held her hair back for her.
Once upstairs Horror knocked gently at the door which behind her papa and dadda slept. She excitedly kicked her feet.
Still half asleep, Nightmare opened the door and raised a brown, blank stare melting into a gentle smile when he saw exactly who Horror was holding. “Got a package for ya boss.
“Mhh I can certainly see that. Thank you Horror.” Tentacles longer than her own picked up the cookie jar and chocolate bars while his big hands gently cradled her.
Horror bowed and started walking back to the kitchens. Nightmare closed the door and walked over to the bed where his currently very pregnant husband was waking up.
Nightmare smiled, sitting down with their little starling in his arms. “Seems our princess got something for us.”
When Cross woke up a bit more and noticed the chocolate bars and cookie jar he gave a soft chuckle. “Oh Incubux, pumpkin, you got dadda and papa some chocolate?”
Crawling over to him she gave a big happy nod. “Ommy nommy!”
Cross chuckled, kissing her forehead. “Ommy nommy.” He agreed.
