“If watching cartoons has taught me anything, it’s friendship overcomes all” He said with quite the gusto.

“Well yeah but you needs friends for that” Miri jabbed with all the grace of a snake choking itself on a mouse.

“Ha. Ha. You crack me up, but how are we-“ he looked at Miri, Al and then pointed at himself. “-WE! Going to do about the very glaring issue at hand here. The very issue that no one has owned up to”

“I say it was the cat” spiked Miri.

“We don’t have a cat” Isu retorted.

“We could get a cat to blame” Al suggested.

“Neither of you are helping, there’s a gaping hole in the middle of the room, and no one’s going to own up to it? Not the Medusa herself trying to summon Cthulhu in our bathroom?!” Isu had been gathering a bit of a red face.

“Hey! The cult members were cool till they turned the shower curtain to tentacles!” Miri sullenly gave him her time.

“And you little Al, you piece of work. Inviting elementals over to crash at our place was bad enough, but I~ woke up to a FIRE ELEMENTAL casually taking a nap ON THE STOVE! If it had chilled any more the hole wouldn’t be a problem. Because we wouldn’t have a house” Isu never got over that incident, but he never admitted how good his breakfast was that morning.

“Oh please, you wish you could have him over more often” Al chimed with a chipper tone.

“Pancakes made by a fire elemental chef won’t fill this hole… So no one’s coming forward?” Isu asked

“Nope” Miri shrugged

“Not unless there’s pancakes at the bottom” Al joked.

Isu stood there against the wall, eyeing the hole and it’s endless pit of darkness, “we’ve dropped a couple things in but they never came back. Hhhhh maybe I’ll call it in”

Miri looked at the hole, squinted and gave Isu a side eye. She went to the kitchen and came swiftly back with some pet food.

“Where’d you find that”? Isu looked at Miri with a face of ‘what and where are you going with this’

“Dade left it here, big wooly guy you know ‘im” Miri tossed the food in and- and.

Nothing?

“Mew”

The items came tossed back out as the hole shrunk, by the end of it a tiny black blob was left in the centre.

“I hate you Miri” Isu said rubbing his face as if he was trying to remove it.

“I told you it was the cat” She replied, grinning to herself as she leaned down and pet the lightless thing.

“Mew”