Chapter 291: Interlude - 10: Talk of the Town
"And anything else to drink?"
"Just that thank you," the man in a suit petted a grey cat on his lap whilst his daughter played with a couple of kittens on the floor next to the table, careful not to dirty her school uniform.
Jotou wrote down two breakfast sandwiches and took the menu away with a polite smile, "I’ll be back with your order in a bit," she turned, her black tail swaying through the gap in the uniform.
Daylight sparkled into the café, allowing the cats and small dogs to bask in the sunlight’s warmth inside the otherwise chill interior.
Meows and barks were not scarce and most of the more active pets were out in the gardens rather than inside the café. An adequate amount of customers had come before work would begin, leaving the waitstaff to scurry around the tables.
Only a few tables were vacant and as Jotou glanced her notepad of three tables’ orders, she came to a halt on the dark wood. She realized she hadn’t written which food went to which table... ’I’ll... figure it out.’
"Ana," Asobi popped up in front of her. Jotou glance to Asobi’s cupped hands, hiding something within. "Look, it’s a bamster!" she hushed and opened up her palms.
Within her palms emerged a small grey creature with a tiny pink nose and wings curled up around its hamster-sized form. With its fingers at the end of each wing, it had a small berry it munched.
It paused and glanced up with its beady eyes as its nose sniffled up. It chirped at Jotou and continued to eat its berry faster. "Cute, but we’re supposed to be taking orders."
"I was supposed to feed him a little."
"Oh," Jotou stared at it. "Bats and hamsters are both nocturnal, you sure this thing’s supposed to be awake?"
"I didn’t bring him here; and he was playing with a little boy and his mom just now," Asobi shrugged.