#rosaria has a scene and Capitano kind of also does(?) she names a dog after him

[moonlite-drabbles]

Misc Tales of Dottore’s Creation Sucrose’s Childhood - Fic Preview

“Hello little thing.” Columbina smiled down at her. Her voice was very soft, perpetually a whisper. “You heard my song?”

Sucrose nodded silently, a little shy at interrupting the lady.

“Did you like it? It’s new. A funeral song I haven’t gotten the chance to sing.”

“It was very pretty.”

A smile stretched over her face, pleased with something Sucrose had done. “The Doctor’s charge Hm? So sad, the way you're dressed. He truly knows nothing of beauty. Come on.”

Columbina hopped off her nonexistent perch, feet touching the ground in the way an Angel’s never should. She immediately scooped Sucrose up into her arms, carrying her out of the ballroom.

~

“Hm.” He turned away, wandering to one of the waiting chairs. “I’ll stick around until he’s back.”

Rude.

Sucrose tried to ignore his eyes on her. She was working on a difficult set of bones. The actual bones she’d already pieced together, but she couldn’t identify it properly. A lizard with a set of teeth that didn’t quite fit in with the examples in her book. The pictures gave it a set of uniform, small sharp teeth. This one had large incisors and flatter molars. But none of the other species were closer.

She felt her frustration grow. Scaramouche was watching her flip through the book, a flustered blush growing on her cheeks. None of them were right! And Dottore was gone so she couldn’t ask him.

“It’s not in your book.” Scaramouche eventually said. She looked at him in confusion. “It’s a subspecies native to one of Inazuma's islands. It eats crabs.”

“Oh.” She said simply, tilting her head at the offending skeleton. Maybe he was good for something. “Thank you.”

“Hmph. It was obvious.”

“There, um, is a couple other bones that don’t match up. Could you look at them?” She asked tentatively.

Scaramouche considered it for a second. “…Well I have little else to do until the doctor returns. Show me.”

~

Perhaps she had misunderstood how a library worked.

Sucrose squeaked as Miss Lisa snatched her by the collar of her dress, and suddenly her feet were dangling a few feet above the floor.

Her ears pinned back in fear as she clutched the books to her chest. Unsure of what she did, she stared up guiltily at the young librarian.

“Oh aren’t you a darling.” Miss Lisa cooed, looking over the girl she captured. After a moment, she lowered Sucrose back down onto her feet. “Is this your first time in a library?”

Sucrose wobbled a bit, but regained her footing and looked up at the terrifying woman who’d captured her. She was tall, with light brown hair in a loose braid, and a purple sundress.

“…Yes?” She whispered, an obvious accent still clinging to her speech from Liyue and Snezhnaya.

“Hm, I figured after seeing your adorably cute panic.” She tapped a finger on Sucrose on the nose and gently pulled the books from the girl’s arms. “Unfortunately for you, cutie, you have to check out the books before you leave with them. Come here, I’ll get you set up with a library card.”

“Ok, sorry…”

“Tongue tied? Come on, I don’t bite. You though, you’ve got some canines on you, hm?”

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Up Now (along with a few other scenes) on AO3!