Howling (1)

"Are you sick?" Randell asked, with a surprised look.

"Is that the first thing you need to ask this morning?" Nida frowned and got off the bed where Randell was lying.

She came to his room and woke him up since she needed to cook breakfast, but they could not be in the distance for long.

"Are we later?"

Randell hurriedly stood up and looked at the time.

6:30 am

"Ah, we still need to go get our clothes." he mumbled.

"No need. Let's go straight to work. We will be late if we commute back to your unit and my apartment."

"Then are we going to work looking like this?"

"Why are you going to work in your pajamas? Just borrow clothes. "

"To Sir Olitoquit?"

"Who else?"

"Then where are you getting your clothes?"

"I'll borrow his sister's clothes."

"Making yourself at home?"

Daniel suddenly appeared at the door Nida left open.

"Good morning, Sir."

"Good morning, Danny boy!"

They greeted Daniel at the same time but with different energy.

Nida walked closer to him, then smiled brightly.

"Why are you offering my clothes to him? It won't fit him." Daniel crossed his arms while leaning on the door, avoiding a closed look at Nida's unwashed face.

"It will! Come on, just lend him your clothes. I'll cook you a very good breakfast."

He can't believe how Nida became too comfortable with him and his house.

"How can I trust that the food you're going to cook is clean?."

"Wow, it's the first time I've been asked like that. Normal people will ask about the taste first."

"Why is there any normal being inside this house?"

"None." Nida snickered, thinking that she's getting used of her being not normal.

She then pulled Daniel's arm and dragged him out of the room.

"If you don't trust me, watch me how I cook it. I want to cook for you too, since you were the one who made our breakfast last time."

Daniel continued to grumble while being dragged by Nida, but he doesn't look upset. In fact, he is smiling; that is a usual look for him.

Randell frowned while watching the two get too close to each other. He felt jealous, but he shook his head once he felt he shouldn't be feeling this way.

He followed the two to the kitchen and asked. "I'll help prepare food."

"No." Nida immediately responded as she raised her palm towards Randell. "You two just sit there and relax, I'll be making the food."

"Are you sure?"

"Don't mess up my kitchen, Nida."

"No way, man.I won't. Just let me do this. I always cause trouble. I can at least do this. " She said it in a low voice, looking the other way.

At least you know that you're such a bother."

"Ugh! Okay, just let me thank you. Stop arguing with me!" She pouted, " Ah! Ranz, tell him what happened last night while I prepare food. I am sure Danny Boy is curious."

"No need. I am not curious at all." Daniel refused to hear any troublesome stories.

"Sir, where do I start my story." Randell perked up, then leaned forward toward him.

Daniel's eyebrow twitched as he thought internally, "Why is this wolf suddenly becoming enthusiastic?"

"Does what happened last night represent a happy thing?"

"No sir, we almost got killed." Randell said with a bright expression. "There's an HR person that is..."

Randell begins his long story about their long night with vigor. Daniel felt strange with the werewolf's strange energy and just silently listened to the story. It was not a happy thing.

Unbeknownst to him, Randell was just happy because Nida called him by his nickname. Ranz.

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"You don't look like Sir Rudy at all." Nida exclaimed while looking at a human-sized elephant stuff toy.

Nida and Randell successfully came to work without being late. wearing the clothes Nida forced to borrow from Daniel.

They were expecting to be scolded today because of the mess they made with the genie that night. However, the office, the scattered documents, and the broken lights are back to normal.

One stuffed animal welcomes them and looks proud of the clean up he made.

Also, the people around them weren't bothered by the appearance of the cushy elephant.

'A dejavu?' she said to herself, thinking back to when she had experienced it before.

"Ah! like the wolf! People can't see him. Wait? You're not invisible! I just saw you talking to Secretary Tes."

"Like I told you, I am Sir Rudy. " The cute human-sized elephant toy tapped on his chest as he introduced his new identity.

"How the hell are you, Rudy? He is the wolf, right? " She looked at Randell to get a clearer answer.

"Sir Rudy is an open spot for everyone supernatural creatures who wants to live a peaceful life."

"Open spot?"

"Human Rudy is not existing as one individual, it's just a spot for anyone to have a human identity. Sir Rudy doesn't have a specific appearance in our eyes, but humans could see him as a middle-aged man."

"Then what happened to that vicious wolf? He used Sir Rudy's identity, right?"

She's referring to the wolf who followed her to her department after stalking her on her ceiling.

"I think he went back to our base. He was just here at the same time as you. I actually investigated after I saw him stalking you. He was just a fanatic of beautiful things."

Nida rolled her eyes as she said, "Then viciously store those beautiful things in his display jar."

"Something like that. But you don't have to worry, he will probably avoid you. "

"Why?"

"You can't completely control your dust, but you can turn werewolves into dust."

"But isn't it amazing that Sir Randell can contact Ma'am Nida?" The cute elephant interjected since the topic was getting farther away from him.

"Why do you care?" Nida said surly. "Why do you even roam around here? Isn't your problem with Aileen solved?"

He smiled once the topic was back to his issue again.

"We resolved everything last night, its all thanks to you Ma'am Nida. I went here because I needed to clean up the mess I made"

Nida nods lightly in agreement that the cute elephant did an excellent job cleaning up, but her brow furrowed when he explained it further.

"Because of you, ma'am, the two of us received another chance to live without letting go of the life of the other. Aileen wants to make up with you since she's been treating you badly."

"Wait. Why are you being respectful to me?" She felt weird at the sudden demeanor of the former Genie, now a moving stuffed animal.

"We respect you for returning Aileen's body to normal and giving me a core. I am really grateful for it ma'am. " The elephant bows down in front of her, showing his gratitude and respect to Nida.

"Core?" Randell and Nida asked at the same time.

"Yes ma'am, I thought you would just seal me inside a stuffed toy. But what a gracious person you are! You give me the core that genies don't have. Because of that, I became a living person! I am not a genie anymore! " He happily reported, but the two who were listening to him were frozen in place.

"Nida."

Randell only called out her name, but anxiousness could be felt in his tone.

"What? Am I fucked up again?"