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It wasn't too often that Shun went to the maul, but there were times where he needed to pick up some stuff. Such was today, where he needed an extra shirt as well as a few more lightbulbs for his room. One of his lamps had gone out and he realized that he didn't have any spare bulbs around.

Having gotten the former, he was on his way to get the second thing on his list.

As usual, he didn't really pay much attention to the other patrons of the maul, even if the little miced tea on his shoulder took an interest in just about everyone around. At least the little guy knew better than to try and interact with everyone while they were out here.

At one particular floor, Shun was glancing at the mouse on his shoulder, missing who had gotten off and on at the time. It generally never mattered. Though, when he looked ahead again, he noticed that someone rather familiar had come aboard. It was the cat demon that he and Mitsu had run into a few time. Frowning at the sight of her, he just glanced away. Since they were on the elevator, they weren't likely to be so close to one another for long.

Shun was fairly glad that Riyo wasn't going to be saying anything. Before too long one or the other will get off and they'll just continue their day normally. However, the elevator had decided to abruptly stop between floors. Narrowing his eyes, he stared hard at the panel that dictated what floors the elevator was on at the moment, but the thing didn't seem to be willing to move.

Well great.

If this thing had been made of glass, he could have easily teleported his way out. However, this wasn't the case and the chances of him miscalculating where things were and getting himself in the middle of some object or the floor itself were too great.

Being in an enclosed area like this, it wasn't hard to hear the mumbled words. Deacon? That name sounded familiar.

Oh right.

"I'd like to think I have nothing to do with that whiny a** loudmouth," he mumbled under his own breath while leaning against the wall of the elevator.

Bent-Tail tilted his head curiously as the box they were in stopped moving. That didn't seem to be normal. That aside, it seemed like his master knew this other girl. She was a feline, but that didn't scare him at all. Sniffing the air towards her, he tried to wave to her to see if he could get her attention. It was hard to say if this was a nice lady or not, but he was willing to find out!

Merely scoffing as a response to the girl, Shun glanced away, already irritated by a fair amount.

Seeing the glare, Bent-Tail made a small, sad, squeak, recoiling back some. His ears lowered and he tilted his head in confusion. Why did the cat lady look at him like that? Girls almost never glared at him! Confused, he looked over over at Shun, wondering if he did something wrong.

"Don't pay attention to her," mumbled the Reaper to his pet, noticing his confusion.

Hearing the operator, he glanced over to where Riyo stood, interested in how long this would take before they got moving again. Looking incredibly displeased with the answer, he narrowed his eyes.

"An hour? Seriously?" he hissed.

The mouse flinched a bit at the slamming of the phone. There was a lot of tension in this metal box.

"Hmph," Shun huffed in response to the girl. That was perfectly fine with him. There were no qualms in limiting their interaction as far as he was concerned.

Unfortunately though, Bent-Tail wasn't too sure about all of this. He gave a soft squeak before jumping down from the Reaper's shoulder and making his way towards the bakeneko in the elevator.

"Bent," the Reaper hissed to call him back. The mouse paused at hearing his name. Turning back at the guy, he tilted his head a bit, hesitating, but then turned back towards Riyo and creeped a little closer. He was wary of her because of the glare, but... he was trying to see if she'd warm up at all. It was possible right?

Bent-Tail froze at those words, staring up at Riyo with his ears flattened back. Sitting on his haunches, he looked a little nervous, squeaking very softly. He also looked a little... dejected if that was even possible. The little guy didn't understand why she seemed to have problems with him. Normally his charms got to girls. Maybe it was because she was a cat? That didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to him though.

Tilting his head, he stared at the hat and the eyes. He didn't really want to play with that. The mouse was hoping he could get some pettings from this new person. It seemed that wouldn't be happening though.

Narrowing his eyes at the girl's warning, Shun watched her carefully, almost daring her to try and hurt his mouse.

"Bent-Tail. Get back here," he said firmly. This caught the miced tea's attention, though he didn't move from his position just yet.

Spotting some more movement, Bent-Tail turned to see the hazcat there all of the sudden. Tilting his head, he remained where he was, unsure what this feline was like. Maybe it was better than its owner, but he couldn't be certain.

A little cautiously, he sniffed towards the larger creature.

Seeing Felix emerge, Shun's eyes narrowed a little more. He recalled seeing this cat and it seemed friendly enough. It certainly was more tolerable to him than its owner. Unlike Riyo, he wasn't about to take his irritation of her onto the creature. However, he was always a little wary of felines when it came to his little rodent. Some cats liked to eat mice after all.

At the friendly gesture given by the cat, Bent-Tail relaxed and nuzzled back in return. Already, he liked this one over his mean-faced companion. Felix was also a lot easier to deal with than Ziggy, who kind of liked to torment him. He gave a sort of happy little squeak.

Shun just sort of watched the minis, just to keep an eye on them. He wasn't worried that Felix would try to eat his pet at this point, but he would rather stare at them than the cat demon that happened to be in the same elevator.

Shifting, he just brought one knee up and rested his arm on top of it.