#*How To Barter Dessert With A Goblin*

Usually Kokoro eats skyweeds whenever she is hungry. Their salty leaves feel so warm on her tongue. Like she is eating a cloud but salty. It is a delicacy for a cat like her. Humans would not understand. No matter how many times she has passed by a human, on the streets, in their balconies or beside them on park benches, all they give her to eat is bread. It doesn't even contain salt. She has eaten better.

 Today, however, she wanted to try something new. She remembered once, she was looking for skyweed seeds to grow in her garden, when she smelled a sweet aroma. Sweet was something that she never thought she would crave again, but the fragrance was too good to ignore. She hopped over the flat, bush-like stems on the emberbloom tree and landed on the windowsill of what seemed like a bakery. She peeked inside to find a bigfooted goblin. Not that she was scared of it, but for the goblin's own welfare, she sprinted off. 

What a rough day it was! Recalling it made her hungry. She decided to ask the goblin right to his face to give her a sweet dessert for a big, fleshy shadow. A shadow... you wonder? Ah! Yes, don't tell Kokoro where you learnt this but it's just a little hobby of hers. She likes collecting shadows in a shiny glass jar. An odd obsession, to say the least.

Back to the matter at hand, she carefully poured a shadow into a smaller jar and off to the bakery she went, as if guided by an invisible force in her stomach, or — just hunger. Locating the bakery was harder than expected.

The sun was setting. Her mind couldn't work without food in her mouth, skyweeds at that. That was her favourite. To the point that she even thought about growing her own. But being industrious wasn't to her taste. All she dreamt of all day was her laying on a cozy couch, with a servant hand-feeding her all kinds of skyweeds, doing her homework and cooking her food, but all that is just a distant dream. Did I mention our Kokoro goes to school? I did now. No matter the consequences, your reliable narrator is going to mention everything about Kokoro.

Long story short, she found the bakery anyhow. Come on now, it takes a pizza in the fridge to motivate the narrator to write all that, which as you're aware doesn't exist.

The Great Grand Goblin wearing an apron in his frog themed crocs didn't look so scary. Yes, that's his name, or his title if you may. Given to himself, of course. Now before you come at me for not collecting more information about him, it was unapologetically the nearest I could go. It's not like I get paid for this enough to risk my life in the hands of a beast.

He was cooking some stew in a big brass pot. Yes, COOKING in the BAKERY. Only one explanation to such strange behaviour- The great dictator of the Wolvine empire got him to cook some food in a place designed to bake cakes. Right enough, the society's stereotypical norms can surely be broken! But he wasn't the least of her problems, sheer hunger was. If hunger could ever be sheer.

Smelled delicious. "J-just like SKY-WEED!! That's it! Kokoro's first dialogue. Only skyweed could ever get her to meow like that! Pardon the unprofessional language, skyweed seems to be the sole stimulant that triggers this distinctive mewing behavior in the cat. I'm quite proud of that sentence myself, not to mention my extraordinary word phrasing. Don't tell her but the rest of her dialogues were omitted (not by me) because they were too skyweed biased. Such a peculiar obsession with skyweed will make you think she's crazy, and I uh, whoever omitted the dialogues absolutely wouldn't allow such blatant favouritism about our already exceptional main character.

Author’s Note:

Yes, I did just introduce a giant bear-rabbit and a shadow-obsessed cat in the same story. No, I have no regrets.

If you’re here for logic — oops.

P.S. Feel free to leave a comment! I swear Kokoro doesn’t bite (…unless you’re a shadow).

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