"You're real lucky the cooks aren't here, or you'd be filled with so much soup," he teased. "Slice of cheesecake before we leave. Maybe the rain will die down, otherwise it's gonna have to be alternative routes home."

Really, its probably why the crowd in the bakery isn't so large compared to how it was usually. The rain was enough to chase them away for a time. "The starter apartments do have a food stipend the first few months, and they're for five meals for the big eaters, but you're also welcome to my place. Lot of big appetites. Macaque doesn't like processed food much, so we grow a lot of fruits and veggies too."

"That is if you choose to live somewhere else. Kind of your call, that, but I think the others won't mind me extending the invitation to the birdtile house," he said. He just needs to make sure Choco is warned about Maine before she realizes he is Maine. And just have a talk with Macaque about timelines. "But it is a house with a bunch of teenagers and non-humans and that can be a lot when you're not used to...any of this stuff."