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[Midnight Hotel] July catch-alll

Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: Month of JULY, 2016.
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post! Feel free to use this post for anything that happens within the Midnight Hotel during the month, using the subject header to label specific rooms or for specific people. See also the OOC note at the bottom.
Warnings/Rating: Mark your threads if content warnings become applicable, please!

Though the attack on Anton and Jintou occurred outside of the Hotel, its effects can nevertheless be seen on the Hotel’s runnings during July. Jintou is absent, in the first place, though Anton keeps his room in the event he’s found.

For the last few days of June and the first couple days of July Anton is preoccupied with rebuilding the shops he damaged in his attempt to stop Jintou from being taken, and therefore a good deal of the Hotel’s daily running is in the hands of his staff and a handful of trusted ex-gang kedan.

Within the first few days of the month Anton’s health takes a nosedive. Though the chronic condition discovered by Raine and Tony wasn’t previously active, the poisoning attempt apparently changed that and for the rest of this month Anton is under enforced bed-rest—or if not bed-rest then an enforced holiday. For that reason, any and all offers to help out with maintenance, cleaning, cooking, accounting and other daily chores at the Hotel will be welcomed.

Provided, that is, that no one minds the Hotel proprietor hovering over their shoulders—when he isn’t being sat on by a giant wolf to make sure he doesn’t overtax himself.

Hotel rules are, obviously, still in effect.

[ooc: The Midnight Hotel’s status page is available here, with the rules at the top and ongoing status at the bottom. PLEASE POST TO THE STATUS PAGE IF YOUR CHARACTER WOULD LIKE A ROOM, JOB OR AREA IN THE GARAGE, OR ARE MOVING OUT. Anton will manufacture means of payment until Foreigners are able to properly offer recompense or choose to move out.]

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Spoilers: Yuri made that cake.

And since he made that cake, and helped with the set up, he's hovering around.

With everything that's happened lately he's been a bit preoccupied, but one wouldn't know that from looking at him. However he hasn't let Anton down since that one time he'd shown up late, and has been doing his part to keep the hotel running smoothly.

Yuri seems in good spirits enough when people arrive and he cuts the cake, handing out pieces.

Dove is in an exceptionally good mood today, and as Yuri is hovering around the cake, and as its his cake and she knows how good a cook he is, she'll eventually find her way over toward it.

Don't bother trying to hand her a slice through. She's content just to swipe a finger across the edge of a slice he has yet to cut and pop her finger in her mouth to sample the icing, all the while grinning and daring the chef to say something before she can glide away.

Era's just going to follow closely and hope Yuri drops a piece.

Yuri was just minding his business, cutting another piece when Dove suddenly swoops in and swipes her finger through some icing. Blinking, he looks up and stares as she puts her finger in her mouth and saunters off.

Yuri just keeps staring, a slice of cake held in one hand. Though the distraction loosens his grip and suddenly he's fumbling to catch the falling piece. But to no avail as it lands on the floor.

While Dove only giggles with every intent just just wander off and leave him pining, her kittent has other plans. With a very obviously pleased "mrowl!" he skitters around her legs and dashes toward the fallen cake.

It's a win-win for both; Dove gets her attention while Era gets his cake.

Unfortunately, she'll have to give him a bath later, as the kitten has pounced atop the slice and is all but rolling in glee at Yuri's feet as it licks the icing out of his fluffy black fur.

Yuri sighed dramatically and then looked down at the cake that was now on the floor. He would catch up with Dove later but for now... Wait a minute. There's a tiny cat now rolling around in the fallen cake. ... Uh.

"Hey there... Where did you come from?"

Kittens normally didn't just appear out of nowhere inside buildings.

"Mrrrow!"

The kitten would just roll onto his back and blink up at Yuri with big curious eyes, before closing his eyes contently and wiggling a little more as he licked the icing off his paws. Yuri is his new favorite human, yay!

Yuri was more of a dog person but the little kitten did bring back the memories of Repede as a puppy.

"I'm not sure that's good for kittens," He said as he tried to pick up the cake and clean the mess.

Dove would apparently have noticed that there was no longer a kitten trotting at her heel, and would turn to look for him, giving Yuri's dramatic sighs a run for their money with her own.

She couldn't help but grin, though, as the kitten proceeded to paw harmlessly at his hand before getting up and shaking off bits of cake onto the floor. She's head back, but not quickly enough, it seemed, as Era deemed it very appropriate to rub his head--and the icing-- against Yuri's leg just before she could get to him.

"Sorry!" She offered him an apologetic look as she scooped up the now-squirming kitten, holding him away from her to keep her new tunic from harm. Her (too-gentle) scowl turned on the kitten, though she addressed Yuri still. "I thought he was still following me like he's supposed to..."

Yuri looked up when Dove returned, letting her scoop up the kitten as he wiped the icing off his leg. He then stood after cleaning up the rest of it.

"No harm done," he said casually.

"So he's yours, huh?" Figuring that Dove must have found him somewhere and took the kitten in.

"Yes...from home," she told him, still baffled as to how he had found his way onto the Turtle-- how any of them had found their way here.

She frowned as he squirmed, and moved to wrap him in a napkin instead so she could hold him more comfortably. Before she could, however, the small kitten burst into flame, and with a rush of feathers, would put himself far out of her reach above them where he would proceed to preen his red and gold plumes himself.

Frustrated, she sighed and crossed her arms, holding the lightly charred napkin in her fist as she scowled up at the large bird. "Really?"

Yuri was about to say something, but then the kitten exploded in a mass of flames and feathers. Yuri gawked, stunned for a few moments before finally speaking.

"I don't think kittens are supposed to do that."

"..."

Dove shook her head, watching to make sure the bird stayed put. "They're not. Especially not that one," she sighed, watching as Era warbled at a stray passerby or two on the upper floors.

"Soo... I take it he's not really a cat."

And now he's looking up. If what he saw was any indication that was definitely not a cat.

"No... Well--sometimes. I warned him that he was supposed to stay a cat while we're in the hotel... little twerp,"she explained, still frowning distastefully up at the now-bird. She nearly growled as it stretched to its full wingspan and crooned at a few of the startled spectators below. "Showoff."

Shaking her head, she raised a hand into the air, flames leaping into her palm as her soul gem slowly brightened. "Era," she called her tone stern.

The bird immediately shied and tucked his wings back in, before turning to the woman. A few seconds more and he had swooped down, his feathers falling away in flames and disappearing as he became a tiny kitten once more.

Dove caught him effortlessly in her arms. Clearly, it had become routine.

Era only mewled up at her and Yuri innocently, and purred.

Yuri blinked and placed a hand on his hip with an amused look as the bird turned into a kitten again and dropped into Dove's arms.

"He's got some spunk."

He could come to like this kitten, bird, whatever it was.

"He thinks he's cute," she replied in a sigh, despite the fact that she was visibly softening as the kitten rubbed its head against her wrist. She shook her head and turns her attention up to Yuri instead. "I'm surprised he hasn't tried to eat the rest of your cake..." A slight grin. "The frosting was good, at least."

Because, well... That was all she had tasted so far. She wasn't sure if it had been the flavor of the icing or the satisfaction of how distracted he had become because of her, though, that had been so appealing.

Twisting in her arms, the kitten peeped up at Yuri as well, demanding his attention once again.

"Can I have a slice of cake?" Zelgadis asked.

That's what he's here for. Free food. He still isn't used to parties, so generally sticks to the ones where he can get something to eat and doesn't feel trapped by crowds of people.

"That's what it's here for," Yuri said as took a slice of the cake, put it on a plate, and handed over to Zelgadis.

"So, how's the party?" He hasn't actually gotten out there yet. Been too busy serving cake.

Zelgadis took the cake, balancing the plate in one hand while he picked up a fork. "Haven't spent much time looking around," Zelgadis confessed. "I'm not much of a party person."

That he was here at all was progress for him.

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