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Layla watched with idle curiosity at Lin who seemed to be at Gryff's beck and call (well DUH!). She proceeded to tear away strips of a sparkly silver and lilac fabric into strips, by hand, constantly stealing glances at Gryff while he worked at his project.

Finally Layla leaned over toward Kai and covertly whispered, "Isss the gremlin in thisss club? He seemsss more intent to help Gryff with hisss project than ssstart hisss own."

"Ooo Sally, it'll be wonderful i'm sure!" She looked around the group and smiled softly. It was nice to be around monsters who shared her enthusiasm for all things crafty.

"Wh.. whataboutyouLayla? What are you making tonight?" She tilted her head. "Gryff?" She still regarded that gremlin warily. He better not touch her stuff, everything he did touch seemed to explode.

She collected together her things, her bedazzler which looked more like an oversized stapler and was covered in glitter, a bejeweller which was bright pink and likewise, had been painted with glitter and a large assortment of rhinestones, studs and crystals. She plugged in the bejeweller and shot Lin a warning glare.

"Oh, hey, Sally!" Kai suddenly sat up, remembering something. "If you're looking for a big canvas cheap, I think I can help you with that! Follow me. We'll be right back, okay ghouls?"

Kai led Sally through a long, twisted hallway at the back of the shop. Although the Arrght-House looked like a small shop on the outside, Kai could have sworn that it was bigger on the inside.

"Mr. William Deathknell, he's the owner you saw floating around, he's a retired ghost actor from Fangland. When he moved here after his retirement, he brought a bunch of stuff from his old acting jobs and it's sort of sat in storage, gathering dust. And I know there was a huge old canvas backdrop back here..."

Kai pushed through a giant spider-web looking for the light switch as the two entered the storage room. With a clicking flicker, the lights struggled to come to life, revealing a mass of props, discarded old art supplies and tools.

"Watch your step!" Kai called out to Sally as they walked past a giant prop boulder. "If you see something that looks like a giant brick wall....that's the canvas I was talking about. It'd be perfect if you primed it and painted on the other side, and I know Mr. Deathknell would let it go really cheap and free up some space back here!"

"Hm...." Kai looked at the oversized canvas and rubbed his chin. "I hadn't thought of that."

He stepped back and looked at the canvas. It was ten feet tall, easily, and at least 15 feet wide. For a mural, it was ideal, but getting it moved...

"It had to have made it in here somehow, right? It didn't just magically appear...unless it did...are there monsters with magical painting teleporting powers? No, don't answer that." Kai shook his head. That was distracting.

Sally was tilting her head. She did that a lot. Kai tilted his too...and looked up...

"LOOK!" Kai pointed upward. "A skylight! That must be how the oversized stuff got loaded in here!"

Peering up, they could both see a winch with a hook attached. Following the rope of the winch revealed a staircase on the back wall, which led to a door to the roof of the building.

"Woah." Kai looked up. The skylight was so dirty it was no wonder they hadn't noticed it before. "Well, I guess we could do one of two things. We could either try to raise the canvas up there right now and get it outside...or you could paint it in here and we could move it later."

"I'm Gryff," he replied, oblivious of the commotion around him. When you're friends with Lin, it becomes easy to let all sorts of noise and activity fade into the background.

Gryff set a large, antique willow basket on a table and lifted the lid, revealing an astonishing quantity of yarns in a variety of....grays, cream, some red, a few more gore-ganic undyed grays. Every so often a pop of color managed to creep in when he'd been able to get hold of something claw-made on a commune that didn't believe in pesticides. He glanced at Ascreama with feigned indifference.

"What are you working on?" he asked, digging out a set of renewable bam-boo needles.

Gryff twitched his tail and automatically moved let Lin pass underhoof, accidentally flicking Lin in the back of the head. Probably.

Gryff was internally appalled at the bright patterns and colors of the fabrics, but since she was just learning it was better she ruin scraps than real, decent cloth. Later, she could invest in hemp wool or ethically sourced Creep de Chine if she wanted to get fancy.

"You should practice a lot, it's much more economical and environmentally friendly to make your own clothing than to shop at the the....here," he said.

He reached into his basket and pulled out his current project, an amorphous bundle of black, scarlet and undyed cream.

"Right now I'm knitting. Gorechet as well but not for anything this size."

He unrolled his project: most of a long tunic sweater with a scare-isle pattern of emoji. They marched in alternating (¬､¬) and ヽ( ｀0´)ﾉ across the front.

Jewels looked up at Kai.

"You look hexhausted." She remarked, smiling softly. "Come, sitdown..."
She patted a seat near her. Poor guy, he looked so flustered.

"What are you working on tonight?"

She was curious as to what was under that sheeting but he'd seemed so bummed out when Lin had broken his glue gun. Maybe they had another one somewhere? Or he could do something else this evening.