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The Magic Box, Friday

Nina… had, well, she'd had great plans involving more demon summoning circles because she was pretty sure she'd figured out which one was the one that summoned more Foomy types of demons but she needed to confirm that and before she'd gotten into work, that had been her plan.

Only, once she got there, she discovered the most adorable, teeny, three-headed dog ever

"Oh my goooooooooooosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she squealed. "Lookit you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Two of the heads were more interested in sniffing at Foomy than paying attention to her, but Nina just about died of glee when the third head licked her fingers.

The Magic Box is Open!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[And OCD free!]

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Lunchtime had rolled around, and Vette was anxious to shut down the shop for an hour, go grab something to eat somewhere, maybe play social for a little while.

And that was why she was swinging by the Magic Box with Mooby's today!

"Hey, Nina! Surprise!"

Did you like cheeseburgers, Nina? Because Vette had provided cheeseburgers.

"Vette!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina looked up from where she'd been sketching a doodle of Foomy and the puppy in her dairy.

"Vette!!!!!!!!! Vette, come see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Cheeseburgers would come after! PUPPY FIRST.

Vette blinked as she made her way in, going to set the cheeseburger bag down on the counter.

"What am I coming to sss- oh my gosh."

Hello, Vette had just noticed the tiniest cerberus puppy. Please excuse a moment taken to just make a sustained, high-pitched noise of delight.

"It was here when I got here," Nina said, closing her diary and beaming at Vette's reaction.

Like, the puppy was so tiny! Who could resist?

Vette was immediately dropping everything to go pick that puppy up. To pick it up and snuggle with it and have her face licked from three different directions, and this, she decided, was bliss.

"Help," she squeaked. "He's perfect."

"He's so perfect!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina was going to be, like, no help at all. Not even a little bit.

"I was going to text you later, but this is even better!!!!!!!!!!"

"Nina. Nina. Nina. Nina." Vette was clinging to the puppy. "Whose dog is this and why is he here?"

It was the best dog, and this was coming from a girl who had let the puppies trample her in the common room the other day.

Nina leaned forward, bracing her elbows against the desk and looking super conspiratorial. "Remember, like, how I told you about Foomy just showing up here???????? The puppy is like that too!!!!!!!!!!"

Well, with the help of her summoning circles and Norman's cleaning but, psh, that was a small detail.

Minor really.

"Soooooooooooooooo the puppy totally doesn't belong to anyone right now!!!!!!!!!"

"You are evil and I can't possibly," Vette protested.

While cuddling the little hell puppy closer.

Oh no.

Nina looked absolutely innocent.

Totally.

Entirely.

"I mean, like, no one would say anything if he snuck into my bag on the way back to the dorms?????"

So yes, yes they could.

"... What does he eat?"

That seemed important.

It was possible that Vette was panicking her way out of potentially randomly accidentally ending up with a pet.

"Prompto's working today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina was totally going to rope Prompto into this, why yes.

"Let's eat lunch—thank you so much for that, by the way—and then go see what he says!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"I mean," Vette couldn't flail while holding a dog, but it was a near thing. "I guess he'd know?"

She was quietly screaming inside.

Yes, but was it good or bad screaming?

"And, like, I'd help you take care of him," Nina said, since she wasn't oblivious. "Between the two of us, he'd be totally fine, right??????"

Hard to tell! Maybe Vette was just making small dying animal sounds because it was fun!

"But I need to go back to work after lunch," she noted, lamely. "I can't have a puppy in the weapons shop."

Probably.

"So I keep the puppy here and bring him back to our room tonight," Nina said, bright-eyed. "Honestly, Vette!!!!!!!!!!!!"

As far as excuses went that was a terrible one.

What if Vette were to just start screaming incoherently?

Not that she would. Especially while she was hugging a puppy.

Oh no.

"I... don't know," she replied, weakly.

Nina tilted her head.

"I mean, like, if you don't want to keep him, I can probably figure out how to send him back to where he came from," she said, a little less exuberantly. Since it was obvious (to her) that the puppy and Vette were Meant To Be. "But maybe we could try a test run????????"

Nina, you knew good and well that if that puppy came home with the two of you, it wasn't going back.

Vette was pretty sure she knew totally well the same thing. Which was half the reason she was panicking a little, now that she was hugging the wiggling dog.

"What if... I just come back to visit him a lot?"

That wouldn't exactly spare her, either.

"We could also do that," Nina admitted, reaching for the bag of Mooby's since she was hungry and, unlike Vette, not panicking. "And that's still reason to go see Prompto!!!!!!!!!!!! We'll pick up food for the puppy and keep him here, how about that????? You can come visit?????"

She didn't want to outright bully Vette into anything she was uncomfortable with after all. Nina was pushy, not cruel.

"That... that works for me," Vette agreed, and settled in a little bit to moosh her face against one of the squishy puppy cheeks.

She was kind of enamored, yeah.

"And that just means you have to come visit me a whole bunch too," Nina said, pleased. "How are the new jobs treating you???????"

She wasn't dropping the puppy thing for forever. But she was dropping it for now.

"I get to learn about weapons here," Vette replied, the new topic catching her interest easily. "And play with scrap machinery! Did I tell you, I found the processing unit for a droid from home?"

"You didn't tell me that!!!!!!!!!!" Nina squinted at Vette. "Is that, like, the part that thinks????????"

Maybe?

"Yeah," Vette agreed, grinning. "It's basically its brain. Chances are pretty good that it's rusted out or some part of it is slag, but I'm going to clean it up and see if I can get it working anyway. Why not?"

"But you don't want just a brain wandering around, right???????"

Though, really, given that Nina had Foomy, she wouldn't be able to make too many noises about the oddity of a pet like that.

"Are you going to make a body for it??????"

"I mean... it wouldn't be wandering around," Vette replied, tilting her head. "It's pretty much just a computer, it can't get up and walk. But if it works? Sure, I'd make some kind of body for it. It's a miniprobe, so probably just some kind of sphere with a miniature repulsorlift unit in it."

Nine got... well... sphere out of that.

"Would it roll around instead????? Vette, really, I've got Foomy so whatever you do to that brain might not be what you expect?????"

"It would, um... fly," Vette replied, blinking. "And... why would it not be what I expect? You weren't the one who brought Foomy here, were you?"

Nina blinked right back at Vette.

"No????????" she said, though she'd been... half the force behind the three-headed puppy. "But, like, you didn't bring the brain here either..."

"Well, no," Vette allowed. "That's why I was going to hook it up to a datapad first. See if I can get an idea about what its primary function was. There's a big difference between a recon droid and an interrogation droid, you know?"

She... could probably at least puzzle out the functions behind those.

"I don't want to give it the ability to move freely if its first impulse is to start torturing people."

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