Day 4
"How would that even work?"
"Funny you should ask," Flip grinned.
A very, very long moment passed, but nothing further was said.
"...Um. Well?" Ace prompted hopefully.
"Oh! Oh, I don't know. I only thought it was funny you should ask." Flip clarified. "Dove stepped on it at least seven hundred times if these fancy footprints are any clue. I have to think it wasn't an accident after the first five hundred."
Ace made a soft noise of despair, darting back and forth to ensure that nobody was coming. She dearly wished that her Demon companion hadn't been made privy to the ancient joke, but such was life. The late autumn had gifted a chilly rain, which was the perfect weather to snuggle under a blanket to watch the history channel. However, when Dove had entered the room and seen what flashed across the screen... well, a rare show of temper had taken him. He was off like a shot to the dig site.
"Something that Olde, stomped with this much Pettiness, isn't an item I can fix. So, like I was saying, best to just... throw a rug over it and walk away. I can conjure a rug." Flip offered. "A nice one. Maybe then they won't care."
"Aw, man." Ace fussed. "They're definitely going to care. It was a super ancient tablet. I wish I knew what it said that made him so mad."
"Do you have a recording of the program you watched?" Flip asked.
"Mmmmwell, it's on Netflix. Maybe I can pull it up on my phone... um... okay, here."
Within a few moments, someone Much Older had sent them a translation via text. It was good to have an Angel in one's contact list.
"Ahem... 'Hiraeth, whomst liveth in the home beside to mine, hath such a peculiar shape to his backside. Tis a jest from the creator, made flesh. Perhaps in likeness it may be seen to resemble a fig which hath been trod on. The flat nature would find it well concealed amongst a plate of unleavened bread.'" Flip recited. "Yeesh, Cyprian, tell us how you really feel!"
"Poor Dove. His butt isn't weird shaped. It's like... butt shaped, right?" Ace floundered.
"Sorry, what?" Flip asked. "I was texting Dove a bunch of peach emojis."
"Aaah! From MY phone?!"
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