 Zachaël & Quinn! ^_^ ~ Mrs. Steve Harrington ~ It be like that sometimes.
To be honest, Claudine wasn’t her most observant self at that moment. She was quite observed with checking out the postcards. One might wonder why, and her answer was simple: the postcards usually gave her ideas for her own sketches. Not that she copied them. It was the opposite: studying the postcards allowed her to conceive her own notion of what she’d want her sketches to be whether she drew the images from a different angle or altered just slightly the colours used.
Anyway.
The girl was slightly startled by the voice obviously belonging to the person attending to customers. And Merlin! Those owls were loud! But Claudine gazed at them fondly, rather than paying attention to the man there. It was typical Claudine Blaze behaviour - to pay attention to an animal over a human. “Oh, is he going to have to journey far?’’ the dark haired girl asked with interest, referring to the owl that had been told to rest.
Claudine’s gaze was still fixed on the owls and she definitely did not see the midget leaning around her to check out the postcards. If she had, she’d have definitely snapped at him. “How long is usually their resting time between deliveries, Mister?’’ They weren’t being overworked, were they?
That was exactly when Claudine realised the other human in such close proximity to her. “Excuse you,’’ came her comment rather waspishly. “Don’t you know the concept of personal space?” |