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Turtle & Canary, Sunday

It had been weeks since Dolf had been able to put in a decent shift at work - the weekend where he'd been shut inside the dorms had been a particularly memorable one. "It's quiet today," Dolf said, with a kind of determined cheerfulness as he picked peeps out of his hair.

Apu gave him an equally determinedly cheerful look back as he picked jelly beans out of his glass. Dolf gave him the thumbs up.

"I wonder where they're coming from," he added later, as he poked through the shelves for some tissues to wipe the chocolate stains out of his trousers. "Who is making these things? Do any of them say 'made in China'? Because I've read about what happens in China. They have these sweatshops, and--"

Apu shrugged. Then bleated.

Dolf pulled away from the shelf in confusion, then paused. And paused a little longer. And paused some more.

"...Hi," he told the small crowd of doe-eyed lambs. "Uh, sorry, we don't sell grass."

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If you want to do it peacefully and without blond Europeans. Unless you are a blond European. Sorry, Eric.

And the small crowd of teal lambs that follows him everywhere.

Now that he did not have a class, at least until the summer started, Shunsui remembered that he had a shop to maintain. He should have to treat Jane-chan to something like dinner and a lot of alcohol or something. He was pretty sure she'd been keeping things up for him, being the sweet girl she was. Certainly not Apu or any of his other employees, no.

But he was wandering in, seeming quite pleased by the adorable little marshmallow things gathered on his hat from the rain. "Ahhhh, hello there, young..." Come on, Shunsui, pick through that alcohol addled brain to remember your employees...it would be so much easier if this was one of the female ones," ...Dolf, is it ♥?"

"Shunsui! Hello!" said Dolf.

"Bleat," said the small army of teal lambs behind him.

"How can I help you?" Dolf added, quickly.

Shunsui was momentarily distracted by the adorable little fleet. "Oh, nothing in particular ♥," he said after a moment. "Just checking in on my fine crew here at my esteemed establishment ♥. What's with all the lambs ♥? Apu-san having a special soon ♥?"

"No, they just showed up this morning," Dolf said, squinting at Shunsui. A few seconds later, the man's possible meaning dawned on him. "...And we are not selling any lamb meat."

There should probably be a 'right?' after that.

To that, Shunsui could only chuckle. "Then someone might want to explain the lambchops in the frozen meats ♥," he said.

"Not from these lambs!"

"Well, just as long as you clean up after them ♥," Shunsui said, still chuckling. "And maybe let me have a little chat with them about their style choices ♥. Teal? Really?"

Then there was a slight pause.

"You don't think they like sake, do you ♥?"

"...They're lambs," said Dolf, with a peculiarily doe-eyed expression that matched the lambs' quite closely. "Why would you give them sake?"

There was a long, long pause there, where Shunsui just sort of looked at Dolf to make sure he hadn't imagined that question.

Then he sighed. "I really need to come check up on the store more often, don't I?"

Because if Dolf seriously had to ask that, then, clearly, Dolf did not know his boss at all...

Or he was just a hopeless idealist who thought people like Shunsui could be coaxed into understanding that you didn't give alcohol to poor young lambs.

Or a mixture of the two. It was hard to tell, really.

"Not if it is to feed baby animals drunk!" he retorted.

"Call it...marinating ♥," said Shunsui, this time because, really, Dolf was asking for it.

"What? No!"

A beat.

"...You are joking with me, aren't you."

Really, it was like shooting empty sake bottles into a barrel.

Shunsui just smiled at the boy and simply asked, "And how are our sales today ♥?"

"Um," Dolf said, recovering. (It wasn't that he was strictly against slaughtering cute things and eating them -- if you had to. Places where you could buy food at a supermarket in, however, were not places where you had to.) "...Quiet?" he volunteered. "I think most people are distracted by the suikerbeestjes."

Well, they were animals and they were made of sugar, so...

"Suikerbeestjes ♥?" Shunsui repeated the strange word with a certain delight for it, able to discern its meaning from its sound and its context. "You mean those delightful little marshmallow ducklings falling from our strange Fandom skies this lovely day ♥?"

"Yes," Dolf said, with a quick nod. "Well, they're not suikerbeestjes exactly, but they taste a little like it." The ones he knew tended to be a little harder. (He might have mentally flinched a little at the thought of those falling from the sky.) "And the chocolate," he added, "And all the other things."

Bleat, said the lambs.

"Yeeeees ♥," said Shunsui, a thoughtful tone joining his amusement. "The island seems to be having a bit of fun today ♥. A shame; that garish plastic grass is not nearly as comfortable to sleep on as the regular stuff ♥."

Dolf tilted his head and peered through the door. "Plastic, right?" he said, "I think that would be very slippery and not as soft."

Sure, have 'my boss sleeps on the grass' be like the one thing that doesn't faze you, Dolf.

Well, it was certainly more comfortable than a park bench!

"Not at all ♥," Shunsui agreed. "And it gets terribly stuck in the hair. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a few more strands still--"

He flicked his ponytail over his shoulder, frowning a little as he extracted out a long, shining piece of plastic grass. He sighed, rubbing his fingers together until it dropped to the floor. "See?"

Dolf frowned. "Have you tried washing your hair?" he offered. "Just so they don't sneak up by surprise and ruin your bed."

"Hmmmmmm ♥," Shunsui's head tilted, and his finger rubbed his chin in appreciation for the thoughts Dolf's suggestion was inspiring. "Yes, that would seem to take care of it, but it's such clinging stuff ♥! I shall have to see if perhaps there might be some lovely lady to help me out in that task...♥"

I think I managed to stuff every bit of today's Fandom weirdness into this post.

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