The Perk, Thursday Afternoon

[hatesparadise]

There were spiders all over the place today. Which was awful, but Danny felt like putting up with the insect life in Hawaii had at least prepared him for some of this. Though there was one particularly aggressive spider just hanging out the doorway to the Perk, just taunting him.

It continued to build an almost comically large web, possibly out of spite. Who even knew with this place.

"I just want a coffee," Danny grumbled, trying to duck under the web to get inside without messing up his hair with cobwebs. It was a losing battle.

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[crimson_sister]

Lucille just brushed the web aside, and without noticing it ended up with the spider in her hair.

"A pot of tea, please," she said to the barista, then turned her head to look around to see who else was there.

[hatesparadise]

Someone trying to get cobwebs out of his hair. Because Everything was spiders.

"Jesus, you've got a--" Spider in hair. Horrifying on so many levels.

[crimson_sister]

"Oh."

She picked the spider from her hair and held it in the palm of her hand.

"Did you know spiders eat moths? And moths eat butterflies? Where I come from we had only moths. Curious, isn't it?"

This wasn't quite true, but there were more webs than spiders in Allerdale Hall.

[hatesparadise]

Danny gave her a look that strongly implied she said just the creepiest things. His aesthetic could never be goth for this very reason.

"Moths eat butterflies?"

[crimson_sister]

"They do," Lucille said. "Spiders are quite useful though, they eat all sorts of things. Sadly they only showed up in my home to weave a web and then disappear."

She brushed the spider off her hand on to the floor.

[hatesparadise]

"Right," Danny said slowly. "Well, they're better than centipedes the side of your forearm."

Because that much was true. Hawaii, you were the worst.

[my_own_advocate]

"No," Lucifer informed the spider in the doorway as he came in.

He ducked, too. Of course, he was 6 foot 3, and ergo, had even more trouble with it. "Bloody hell," he muttered, swiping at his hair to clear out the cobwebs.

[hatesparadise]

Poor, poor tall people. Cry him a river.

"Yeah, welcome to what I think is meant to be the Halloween spirit," Danny grumbled as he waited for his coffee. The baristas were having to shoo more spiders away from the pot.

Was it worth this? Possibly not.

[my_own_advocate]

"I have wondered if someone put drugs in the island's PSL lately," Lucifer sighed, pulling a clump of cobweb out of his hair as he walked towards the counter. "Why, if it isn't Detective Jersey Dan! In the hair product, after all this time. You know, I almost missed that ridiculous helmet of yours."

[hatesparadise]

"Really making less and less mutual, the more you talk," Danny replied dryly.

[my_own_advocate]

"Oh, cheer up," Lucifer said brightly. "You look generally alive and untraumatized, I take it island life has treated you all right?"

[hatesparadise]

No, Danny wasn't going to consider what 'generally alive' meant in context of this place.

"I'd say I can't complain, but that'd be a lie."

He could. BECAUSE THE DANCING PUMPKIN PEOPLE.

[crimson_sister]

Lucille turned her head and looked at him, amused.

"I believe it is best to surrender to the spiders today."

[my_own_advocate]

"My hair will do no such thing," Lucifer grumped, plucking more cobweb out of his hair. "Miss...?"

She'd have to forgive him, but it had been several millennia.

[crimson_sister]

"Lucille Sharpe. It's Mr Morningstar, isn't it?"

She did remember his name, of course, not having been gone millennia, but wasn't bothered by another introduction. She smiled.

"I fear your hair will lose."

[my_own_advocate]

"Mr Morningstar is right," Lucifer said, "Though I assure you, it will not."

Even if he had to aggressively comb it later. "Nice to meet you again, miss Sharpe. How has the island been treating you?"

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae was short enough that she didn't have to worry too much about randomly walking into spider webs. And she was grungy enough to be delighted when she did.

She was, in fact, walking into the Perk with several spiders crawling on her, snickering happily.

"GIVE ME YOUR PRECIOUS SPIDER BABIES, PERK DRONES! FOR I AM THE SPIDER QUEEN!"

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer turned half-around, saw the cat thing, paused, plucked a large piece of cobweb out of his hair and flicked it at her.

What? She looked like a cobweb-magnet. If she was one, he was not above using it to his hair's advantage.

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae cackled. "THANK YOU, PERK DRONE."

What? Weren't you glad to be counted as a drone, Lucifer?

[my_own_advocate]

"That's offensive!" Lucifer informed her.

... don't ask why the manic grin was still on his face. It had very little to do with approval.

[thishouseishaunted]

"I don't care," Mae said cheerfully. "I'm the Spider Queen."

[hatesparadise]

"I thought you were the Mayor," Danny replied dryly. He didn't seem to think it was possible to be both, you know.

[thishouseishaunted]

"I resigned," Mae said easily. "So I could be queen of the spiders. Keep up."

[hatesparadise]

"Ah, makes perfect sense," Danny said, nodding along with it.

[thishouseishaunted]

"I know it does," Mae said. ". . . So does you buying me a donut."