Little Devils: Chapter Seven
Fantasy serial. Velma takes a sad doll to Hamish.
Velma Kuroda, a young specialist in magical and enchanted antiques, is taken under the wing of Hamish MacKinnon, a master enchanter and centuries-old immortal — a crotchety old man possessed by a horde of little demons.
She didn’t end up being able to go around to Hamish’s in the end. Kaito was rusty as all fuck, and there were bags under his eyes from lack of sleep — apart from not going to practice, he’d been playing a lot of games in the evenings, staying up late. He was behind on his homework, wasn’t keeping up with his revision.
Velma spent a good part of the week taking Kaito through his drills. He was still going to football and swimming a bit, so it wasn’t as though he wasn’t exercising, just that he wasn’t going to karate as much.
“Is it a problem with the class?” she asked on the Wednesday, watching him get Snowdrop to leap with surprising agility up into the air, desperate to grasp hold of the feathered toy on a string he was flicking from side to side and then throwing up above her head.
He’d already asked if his gift for Christmas could be for her to “catify” (she’d had to look that up) his bedroom so…
