Cherry on Top

'I think… I might kill Cassie…'

Sunny kept a smile on his face to hide how startled and rattled he was. It may have looked a bit sheepish… and he may have looked like a bit of a clown… but there was nothing he could do about that. 

It already took a titanic effort for Sunny not to glance at the dirty dishes scattered on the floor, or summon a swarm of shadows to quickly clean them away. 

'Keep calm!'

Nephis was here, in the Brilliant Emporium. 

Looking at him with a strange expression. 

Well, of course her expression was strange! He had just made a fool out of himself right in front of her. And that was technically their first meeting, no less, which started with him planting on his face.

Sunny wanted to fall through the floor. 

'Actually, that might be possible.'

It would not take a lot for the Marvelous Mimic to swallow him into the basement.