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Zackary looked around. “Nah, I’ll be okay for now.” He grinned.
Zackary looked around. “Nah, I’ll be okay for now.” He grinned.
"You'll be okay, but I'm pretty sure I'll have to clean up your mess." Afriel gave him a small frown.
Zackary gave her a loopy smile. “Daw don’t be that way. I’m hilarious.”
"Well I guess your face is pretty hilarious at the moment." Afriel shot him a small grin.
“Exactly. And I’m covered in flour. It’s kind of hard not to laugh.”
Afriel resisted the urge to dust more flour off and make a bigger mess. "Hm, no I think you just have a funny face."
“Wonderful. That’s my point in life. I can die a happy man.”
Afriel laughed lightly. "What happened to not wanting to be dead?"
Zackary fluffed out his wings. “I don’t really care anymore. I’m not going back to Hell, that’s for sure.”
"Are you saying you've changed?" Afriel tilted her head at him. "That you'd go to heaven?"
Zackary shook his head. “I’d go to Purgatory. My wings are graying out, see?” He raised his wings up. The joints and the tips of the wings were a dove gray.
Afriel took a step closer to touch his wings, taking a moment to think before speaking again. "Maybe they'll continue to fade. Or you know, you're just getting old." She joked.
Zackary laughed gently. “I hope not. I want them to fade. They’re a nuisance.”
"The black?" Afriel continued to run her hands over the faded spots, "I think they're nice."
Zackary shrugged. “It gets tiring when you see it all the time, I assure you.”
"Huh, is that why you fell in the flour then?" Afriel shot him a grin.
Zackary laughed and shook the flour out of his wings. “Noooo. That was actually my own clumsiness.”
Eden walked into the kitchen and gasped, "what did y'all do? Why is there flour everywhere?"
Afriel pointed at Zackary like a little kid. "His fault, not mine."
Zackary started to hastily sweep the flour back into his wings. “Wh-what flour? There’s no flour!”
Eden glared at them both before sighing. "The shop will be closed for the rest of the day so y'all can go out and have fun. AFTER you clean up."
Zackary whipped around, all of the flour back up in his wings. He looked slightly uncomfortable but managed to ask, “How come we’re closing early?”
"I can't give my only two employees the day off?" Eden gave them both a side glance, "y'all'd rather work?"
Zackary simpered and waved his hands. “Nononono! I wasn’t saying that. I was just curious why you were closing. We can go now, I cleaned.”
"Good y'all have fun!" Eden waved them off as Afriel quickly dashed out and up the stairs to their room. She was excited to have the day off.
Zackary went outside to the back and shook out his wings again with a little purr of appreciation of the leveled comfort. He cleared his throat and went upstairs after Afriel.
Afriel had already changed from the clothing she usually wore when baking to something more casual by the time Zackary entered the room. "Why do you think she gave us the day off?"
Zackary shrugged off his floury flannel to replace it with a clean one, smiling. “Who cares? It’s a day off.”
"Hm, yeah. A day off is a day off. So! Where shall we go?"
Zackary shrugged again. “I have no idea. I haven’t been out much.”
Afriel thought for a moment, "then its an adventure." She smiled up at him before turning and starting out the door.
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