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It was over. Everyone was in various stages of packing up, their booths shuttered and closed to those few people still taking their time in exiting the fairgrounds. What had once been a bustling hive of activity only hours ago was now still and quiet--for the most part.

Taima had nearly shed a tear when the ghoul running the coffee booth had cut her off at the end of the night. Taima had been the best of customers all day, discreetly stopping by the booth at frequent intervals, dropping a seed on the booth and taking a different cup of coffee each time. After she had tried them all, she started choosing flavors at random. Once she was able to identify them by sight, she picked them with her eyes closed. By the time she was able to differentiate between them by smell alone, she just said to hell with it and grabbed the first cup she could find. She had stopped keeping track of how many cups she'd had over the course of the day; needless to say, it was a lot.

Taima hadn't strayed far from the coffee booth at any point during the day, the allure of caffeine far stronger than that of games and prizes and whatnot, but now that the coffee was gone, she found herself curious about all of the other booths she'd missed out seeing. She didn't really care that they were closed, she just wanted to know what had been there. That was how Taima came to be flitting from booth to booth like the hummingbird she most certainly wasn't. Her wings vibrated with enough excess energy to lift her off the ground and keep her there as she darted around the fairground. She giggled maniacally as she bumped into things unintentionally, her lack of coordination the byproduct of too much coffee.

When she spotted the fluffy tail and the boil it was attached to trying to pack up its booth, she made a beeline for it. "Hiiiiiiiii~," Taima chirped as she shot towards the boil, flying a quick circle around him before coming to a stop in front of him, still hovering. She smiled at him with caffeinated cheer, her eyes unnaturally wide. "Hi what are you doing can I help what's this booth for can I play a game hi are you closed why are you closed it's still so early is Fright Night over already hi do you have any coffee?"

Frost's answers seemed to be spoken in slow motion--in fact, the world seemed to be moving in slow motion--and it made his voice sound funny. Taima giggled helplessly at him as he explained what he was doing. She was too unnaturally happy to feel any kind of disappointment when he told her that the snow game had melted, especially when he offered up the snowglobe. It took her a few tries, but she finally managed to take it from Frost's hand. She was so jittery that she didn't even have to shake it in order to get the plastic flakes to swirl around. "Oooooooh," she said, the entirety of her attention switching from Frost and whatever he was doing to watching the lazy swirl of each individual snowflake in the span of a single, rapid heartbeat.

Until he mentioned the possibility of more coffee, anyway. Taima would have perked up at that, but her uncharacteristic perkiness was already through the roof. She settled for fluttering close enough to invade Frost's personal space. "Peppermint I like peppermint don't waste coffee I'll finish it I love coffee!"

Personal what now? Taima practically draped herself over Frost as she reached for the cup, not hesitating at all as he mentioned that it was cold and probably gross. Whatever, it was coffee; she drank it more for the rush than the taste anyway. "No well yes maybe a few cups okay maybe a lot of cups but that's okay I'm totally okay I don't know anything about tea is it good I don't need to relax I'm totally relaxed!" She was totally not relaxed. The amount of coffee she had consumed would have exploded the heart of a lesser monster. Frost may even have been able to feel tiny tremors where they touched as her body tried to hold itself together.

"Yay thank you~," Taima trilled. Mmm, peppermint flavored sludge. It wasn't Taima's favorite, judging by the face she made while drinking it, but if it kept the rush going, she'd be willing to endure it--and Frost had warned her, and had even been nice enough to give it to her! She didn't hesitate to put it aside once Frost offered her a snowcone, though. "Oooo snowglobes and coffee and snowcones and tea aren't you just the best puppy ever who's the bestest puppy yes you are," she cooed. Her hand might have made a slight detour to rub between his ears before she took the snowcone, although it might also have been a lack of coordination.

Taima made a concentrated effort to sit down. She tried to get her wings to stop buzzing like a cracked-out hummingbird's, even stretching her toes towards the ground to try and make contact, but that didn't seem to work either. Not to be deterred, she shrugged and merely sat Indian-style in midair. She hummed happily as she licked at her snowcone, sticking close to Frost so she could watch as he made some tea.