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Uh.. oops?

The crying was pretty much the only thing that could stop her in her tracks. Despite being petite, she was getting looks from passersby that somehow she was responsible for his crying. Beholders didn't cry so this was all... strange. What was this feeling she had? Guilt? Nope that couldn't be it. Perhaps she could classify it as mild discomfort. Embarassment at his behavior? Yes.. perhaps that was it.

Jil's face set more into a frown and she patted his hair again. "Uh.. there there." She lamely tried to comfort them. "You are looking at this all the wrong way."

Jil reached and grabbed his hand, even as he cried, and began tugging him to the maul. There was nothing comforting about it really, she simply wanted him to not make a scene, so she did her best to soothe him though it was more of a pep talk. "You must prove to your parents that you don't need them. You are a strong and independent entity. You will raze the world and make it crumple under your dominating steps. Punishments and bets mean nothing.. you are a man with the world in your hands."

She wasn't really good with the comfort thing.. as an after thought, "We're almost there. Ah.. Candy?"

Thankfully they'd arrived at the maul and someone had been coming out when they entered, which eliminated the need for them to argue over who held the door for who. She was glad to know the noisy boil was easily manipulated with fancy words and promises of candy. This was worth noting down.

She was a bit overwhelmed almost immediately. The vastness of the indoor facility reminded her a bit of her colony but all the lights, advertising upcoming holidays, signs and sales, were out of her league and she just sort of stood for a moment and stared.

Where did she start?

"Where would one acquire employment?" Jil put her hands on her hips and looked at Li Shou.

Xaejil for the moment could not fault his logic. But did she want to work in a candy store? She didn't care much where she worked, to be honest, but the ghoul was at the sudden crossroads of want vs. need.

It wouldn't harm to check out the candy store anyway right? She'd come all this way with Shoelace.. he would most likely need her assistance getting back (though she told herself she could care less about that). The brightly colored storefront was hardly appealing but the smell of candy was nice.

Jil followed him in and opened her eyes wide to the elaborate and bright displays. The smell of sweet things assaulted her nose. She hadn't ever had much candy before. It wasn't a priority of the colony to have personal luxuries.

"What are you going to get?" She was beside the cat boil again, but not looking at him because there was a pyramid of some sort of fudge right in front of her face.

"Ah..mm.." Jil hadn't planned on getting anything like this. She only had a small stipend of seeds that the colony could send her and she was on the meal plan at the school cafeteria. Most demons didn't need to worry about eating cafeteria food but things like flavor and texture didn't matter much to her. Food was nothing more than a necessity. Luxuries were not something she was familiar with.

"Oh.. I.. nothing I suppose." She turned from the fudge to look at his bags of swedish fish. She'd never seen them before. "They are certainly very bright? I should ask about a job.."

If she worked in a candy store, would Li Shou try and exploit that? Did it matter? It was a job.

Jil looked scandalized (or enraged) to be compared to a chicken. If there was anything worse than something with fur, it was something with feathers. She didn't even understand why she was so annoyed at being compared to a feathered fowl (it wasn't a colloquialism used with her people) but Li Shou's 'bok'ing' had Jil turning red in the face and scowling.

"I am not!" She stomped to the counter to inquire about a job. The slightly busy cashier slid an application and pen across to her and ask that she fill it out in the store and return it before she left.

After taking one look at it, she scowled again. The beholder ghoul grabbed Li Shou, unwilling or not, by the collar and dragged him to a small seating area towards the back of the store.

"You will sit here and assist in my application." She dictated as she began to fill her name in with very straight block letters.

"Well then you will learn!" She hissed and yanked him down into a chair. She filled in the paper with careful attention. Name, current residence, confirmation that she was working age.. ok. All easy.

"Expected wage?" She frowned. "How am I supposed to know?" She looked at the catboil. "What should I put?"

The next line was even worse. "Previous experience?" Ugh. This was hard.

She narrowed her eyes. Even his suggestions were total crap.

It only took a moment and Jil had gotten up, walked away, and come back. She slapped an application down in front of Li Shou with a snakepen that immediately wound around his wrist and wouldn't let go until he decided to write.

"Guess who's applying with me?" She gave him a cruelly 'sweet' smile.

"Well won't she be impressed that you've taken some initiative." Jil's tone was high and airy, most definitely mocking. "Or your father. Weren't you trying to prove to him how well you could do on your own? Even if you apply.. that's something you can write home about."

Jil filled in a random number for wage, something her brain calculated to be a 'reasonable' amount. But under previous employment she wrote 'Mother Eye In Training' and then put a vaguely secretive code to describe the physical location of her hive (jk it was a PO Box).