#opsie should have tell her elf

[kurtty-drabbles]

Postwoman au (Part 8)

N/A: Kitty meets  Chernobog. He is smitten by her. Kitty is being loyal to himself without knowing.

@dannybagpipesarecalling @tieflingteeth @muninandhugin

The city is fulled of people carrying offerings-it looks like offerings. No one seems to be carrying flowers and painting their door for just aesthetic reasons- and Kitty is carefully watching the moves. Mingling among the crows is easy, no one seems to mind how Kitty has no flowers.

She has, however, a traditional braid. So traditional many other ladies are spotting the same style. Kitty is so easily blending among everyone else. No one is minding the new welcomer.

"Come on, the midnight is coming" Kitty caught one of them speaking in a hushed tone. "We must paint the doors now. Come on" they said and ignore Kitty strolling among the streets.

"The midnight is coming...oh no, I think he´ll be worse than last year" one of them replies.

Kitty is not aware of what they´re saying. She´s, however, noticing some of the draws crafted at the doors.

"My boss has one of them..." mutters softly. Her gaze can be intrusive if you´re the owner of the said door who gave a mean stare at her.

"Beat it, lady...I can´t house another one..." his grimace shifts slightly. "You´d have a place to stay, right? Midnight is approaching and he shows no mercy"

Kitty blinks and tilted her head. Should she show how she has no idea what he´s talking about or go with the flow?

"Of course, I´m just doing an errand...he´ll be worse than last year?" Thanks for Kitty for listening to some gossips. She has a small idea of what she´s dealing with.

Or so she hopes.

The man let his door wide open as his wife-or so she thinks, the woman is putting her hand over his shoulder in an intimate way- have the word. "Oh, this year he´ll be worse...his wife dishonor him...fool, and Chernobog is not in a good mood." she shakes her head. "He made a poor decision. I was rooting for that Romani woman, see. She wouldn´t have done such foolish thing and ...we, mortals, wouldn´t have to deal with the outcome"

Chernobog? Kurt mentioned him...

I promise to you, Kurt, I´ll be away from him and I´ll fulfill my promise.

"Thank you, and even don´t worry. I´ll not stay here to see this festival" Kitty promised. "I just need to catch one little thing and I´ll be out of everyone´s hair"

The woman and the husband look at each other confused. 

"What hair has to do with anything? Miss, are you healthy in mind?"

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The Slavic culture is not something Kitty can say she knows so intimately. Sure, some animes drop some names here and there and the same can be said to games, but nothing that could be helpful here.

Chronos for his part is just like games depicted him. The man even lives in a library. Oh, and to be lost in this library would be a dream. "Is this Alexandria's library?" Kitty dares to ask taking the shelves, the art, including the books in all their glorious details.

Chortle as she repeats the question to herself. Chronos takes his time-pun intended as he controls time or is he time itself- to answer Kitty´s answer.

"Not quite, the real one is fantastic as you can only imagine...but I saved some copies" winks conspiratory at her. The old sage man comes closer. "And what a lovely thing as you are doing in this library today of all days?"

Is that a pun?

"I´m looking for magic rocks..." Kitty confessed as she´s not lying and is all she is looking for.

No reason to lie to a God...so soon.

"Oh, right...is your time to pick those rocks...tell me, where you live there´s no more?" a conversational tone is used. Pleasantries can do wonder. 

"Yes, pretty much" Kitty is not lying. Kitty is not telling the truth either. The devil is in the details.

The man has a contemplative look on his face. Stroking his beard for a minute almost makes him like Gandalf. Almost.

"Then you´re not a real witch!" stops his acts. "A real witch would know to not make any ritual tonight...so, is not about where, but when you come from...the stones are out of their time already?"

"Kinda"  Kitty shurgs. "Do witches have a different smell or something?"

"That´s a timeless question, isn´t it?"

"Do you like doing puns?"

"Eternally!"

Kitty scoffs. You can scoff and still be polite to a God of time. Kitty can teach this lesson to anyone who wants to learn.

"Can I take the stones or am I forbidden?" Kitty dares to make this question.

Chronos just shrugs. "I control time, lady if you travel through time to pick magical stones...be my guess...just be careful with him...the older God loves a pretty thing, and you´re far too lovely to go unnoticed by him"

Kitty has the mind to not blush.

"My boss talked about Chernobog. I promise to you I´ll be extra careful"

"Krampus? That´s his name...in the future?! Interesting"

"His name is Kurt" Kitty confessed grinning. His name is easy on her tongue. Or does he have a Germanic name? "Krampus will work after midnight?"

Chrono smiles in a fatherly way.

"Careful, Krampus doesn´t exist in this time...yet" and winks at her as he points to the hill. "The stones are there...are you fated to do this task might as well do right. On your time, of course"

"How many puns can you do?"

"Eternally, my dear"

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The hill is not exactly high. The task is not exactly complex. The moonlight is shining, shimmering even and all Kitty has to do is to rock that glow as well. It´s too easy, in fact, is too easy that Kitty must have jinxed somehow. "So...why I thought this would be easy? Silly me, I should have expected ghosts and ...whatever the hell that was" she looks up to see the skeleton creature flying away from her.

She has 5 rocks in her pocket. All glowing in the primordial colors and Kitty sighs as she is ready to conclude the mission. "If he wants more..." she stops talking as her eyes widen to the hill, or so she thought, starts to move.

A dark chuckle is heard and Kitty sees golden eyes. 

The eyes are so similar to Kurt and for some illogical reason, to illogical to go completely unnoticed to Kitty.

The woman is not terrified as she should be.

The creature senses. The creature is intrigued.

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Kurt, in his present time, is pacing back and forth. Looking right and left. Until his good friend, Nicholas aka Saint Claus snaps Kurt from his little world with a forcefully pat on his shoulder.

"Kurt, you´re making me nauseous going back and forth" Saint Claus jokes.

Kurt is not smiling.

"Let me ask you this. Why you never told Kitty who you were in the past?"

"I...don´t know" and his golden eyes widen as his face fell. "Oh no...she meet me...in the worst way"