“A Toon? Like…a cartoon?” asked Crystal, blinking a bit in surprise.

“…what is a cartoon?” Falcon asked, turning to Crystal for an explanation.

“I’ll show you later,” she told him quickly before looking back towards the Repairman. “Umm, well… my name’s Crystal. I live here. And this masked guy here is Falcon…”

Falcon made sure to wave to the Repairman with his sleeve when Crystal introduced him.

“And that guy with the skull-head who’s scarfing up all the party food is Bedlam,” finished Crystal, pointing in the direction of the shadow demon near the table.

“Hey,hey! I’m not scarfing, I’m sampling…. and you cook pretty decently, by the way. Everything tastes awesome,” Bedlam told her before stuffing a few more pieces of food in his maw on the upper side of his skull-like head.

“Yep, a cartoon,” replied the Repairman.

He was somewhat surprised to learn that the demon didn’t know what a cartoon was. It was the first time he had ever heard that question.

Still, they all seemed friendly enough, and it was nice to know that, yes, Crystal was a main character as well.

“Charmed,” the Repairman said, waving back at Falcon.

Bedlam’s compliments to the chef reminded him of something he’d forgotten in all the confusion. The smell came back into his nonexistent nose at full force, and he began to unconsciously stare at the spread.

“I’m sure it does…”