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A rather irritated Bastion stalked towards the front door of the manor. He the master of the home the one who provided for everyone here was now no longer permitted to smoke within the confines of the house. Oh sure his servants hadn't cared a wit if he had the odd celebratory cigar when they were around but now that Orion and Carina lived there his staff had insisted most vehemently that he must smoke only outdoors. He didn't see how one cigar perhaps once or twice a week while he was alone in his study could possibly cause lung caner or asthma or any of the negative things rattled off at him but in the end Bastion had conceded.

The dark haired man sighed as the doorbell rang while he was still a few steps away from the entrance to his home. Great now he was going to have to deal with whoever it was before he could have the damned cigar he had worked hard for. Upon opening the door to find no one there he sighed, then frowned as he spotted the small black box with it's bright aqua ribbon. " Probably an apology," he mutted bending down to pick it up.

Bastion was skeptical of randomly appearing gifts but at the same time he didn't think it was too far fetched to assume Switch was sending him something to make up for the fact she'd saddled him with an unexpected kid, one who'd ruined a perfectly good ergonomic keyboard.

Bastion tucked the gift under one arm and reached into his pocket for his cigar cutter. celebratory cigar first, investigation of mystery gift later.

Bastion's grey eyes went wide and he dropped the black and aqua box the minute he heard a voice coming from inside it. "The ********?" Who the hell had sent him a box with something alive in it. Whatever it was couldn't be too big and he was tempted to chuck his cigar cutter at whatever the hell came out.

" Little help here?" he shouted but doubted he'd get a response. After all bastion insulated the house and given it sound proof windows to avoid the noise of the outdoors filtering in and disturbing him most days.

He was too old for this!

Bastion had been lightly winded by the small thing's body check to his side, gods be damned but this thing was fast. He frowned at the grey.. thing as it came closer to eye level with him. Curio? Did this thing mean Orion? It seemed unlikely seeing as he'd never known angel like beings to be called anything like that. Tightening his hands into fists Bastion stared back at the one eyed freak.. right Carina Etch a Ketch came from a curiosities shop was that what it meant then.

The dark haired man's jaw clenched and he growled his next words through his teeth. "None of your damn business where she is, what and who the hell are you?"

Bastion was less than pleased to find himself now chasing something that could phase through walls all over his manor. This was all switches fault and he was going to sue that women until she didn't have a roof over her head. Unless of course this thing meant Carina harm in which case Switch was going end up worse off then that, it'd only take a few phone calls.

Unaware of the Chaos going on elsewhere in the home Carina was splashing merrily in the tub sending plastic dinosaurs to fight sponge people over who would rule bubble land. Getting clean was lots and lots of fun!

Pink eyes rolled up as Carina tried to look at the strange things that now resided in her cranberry red hair. Whatever it was was sort of cute even if it talked much too fast for her to understand. Childlike logic told the young curio that if it wasn't hurting her the sometimes not there creature must be good. She just hoped it didn't fall through her hair and get stuck in her brains.

"What's you name?" She asked curiously continuing her mock battle all the while.

Bastion was out of breath by the time he made his way into the bathroom. Still that man was relieved to see Carina unharmed even if he was disturbed that she seemed content to carry on bathing with that thing on her head.

Bastion had been about to try and grab the strange one eyed thing when he found himself even more weary then before. " Hmm? Right curiosities shop, need to go and have a talk with that woman," he muttered. There was an explanation for all of this and it was at Balcombe Curiousities.

Carina stood in the tub conveniently covered in bubbles as she did so. the girl had no idea where they were going but she understood they were going somewhere and that was nice. " Purple you have to get a towel" she instructed, she couldn't very well go further without one and you musn't go outside all wet.