"Your father's n are moving fast…" I admitted in a defeated, exasperated voice as I watched Claire's shop being practically dismantled on the spot.
Not the building itself, obviously, given how she rented or owned rely a single business location over the entire thing, but everything that made this place into Claire's shop was now either fully disassembled or outright gone.
'There goes my source of inspiration,' I thought, struggling to believe how quick so things could happen.
It wasn't even a day since when I started to live with Claire. In fact, with the plan now safe in my head, we ventured out to get so fresh air so that I could work out the finer details of my ideas.
As one could expect, Claire's shop was the first place I wanted to visit, given the variety of various parts and tools that could give the inspiration necessary to give my plans a solid form of a proper concept.
But now, Claire's shop has beco nothing more but an empty husk of what it used to be, with the workers already moving to completely remodel it from the inside and out.
"It's really hard to believe, even when I'm looking at it with my own eyes," I admitted, a strange sense of heaviness poking through the vibe of my voice.
That shop… It was the place where I first t Claire. It was the place where I first got an idea of what to craft. A place…
It was a place that, for the last few days, served as an anchor, a center point for all my adventures. But now?
Now, it was in the process of becoming a stylized, modern front for a newly opened branch of Chihiro's personal franchise.
"Don't worry," Claire looked at the shop with indifference before turning her lovely, brown eyes over to my face as she hurried up the few steps of distance between us before latching onto my arm. "All the items were moved to the company warehouse. It was…" she hesitated for a second, a hint of guilt flashing in her eyes, "it was an initial cost of buying my business out…"
I squinted my eyes a bit as I turned my face and looked at Claire for a bit, only to then roll my eyes and look away.
In all honesty, even if she played around with the prizes of her stuff before ensuring everything would be bought out by the company Chihiro set up for … I couldn't care less. I was much more concerned about the nostalgia aspect.
And with how I couldn't help but feel uneasy about this shop vanishing to make space for sothing else… Just how bad was it for the girl who spent much more ti in there?
"I an, are you okay?" I asked, not wanting to be soone who noticed a potential issue yet opted never to bring it up to the light to avoid the inconvenience that ca with it. "Wasn't that place important to you?"
Claire's eyes at first widened a bit, only to then relax. She smiled lightly and with a profound look at the bottom of her eyes.
"Whatever role this place had in my life is now over," Claire said before shaking her shoulders up and then shaking her head sideways. "It was a great place to get busy and get my thoughts occupied, saving from the endless boredom of doing nothing but cultivating. But now…" she wrapped herself tighter around my arm, "but now it is no longer necessary.
So I'm going to make a much better use of this space rather than keeping it as it was purely for the sake of its sentintal value."
Looking down and into her eyes locked on the shop, I could tell that Claire wasn't perfectly honest here… But while there was a hint of regret in her eyes, so was there a whole ocean of determination.
"I'm definitely going to ask what this shop was all for. Even if not now and not today… soday, I hope you will be happy to share it with ."
It didn't take a genius to figure this connection out, nor was I a genius to realize it wasn't the right ti to have this conversation. Only once the mory of this shop becos just that, a distant mory rather than a picture right before her eyes, could we talk about it again.
"What do we do now, then?" Claire asked, perking her head up after thoroughly washing her expression out of anything that could get worried.
And as I scrambled my thoughts to figure out what would be the next best place for us to go to…
"Now that I think about it, did you know that when it cos to the cultivation district… I've never gone anywhere beyond this shop of yours?" I asked as I turned my eyes to the girl strapped on my arm.
"Wait, seriously?" Claire opened up her eyes wide, taken aback by my statent.
"Yeah," I nodded my head. "When I first ca here, I just wanted to take a stroll through this place and see the world I wasn't allowed to before. But then I ended up at your place and well, beca too preoccupied with other things to ever waste an evening on just sightseeing," I explained. "So, how about we put all the duties for later and just… go on a sight-seeing date for now?"
I allowed my inviting smile to grow a little bigger.
"And it won't be a waste of ti, since I need to find inspiration for my next project anyway!" I added, just in case Claire wanted to argue the job was more important than just a…
"So you are telling I get to be the one to show you all around?" Claire asked with a look of uncertainty in her eyes that vanished before she could even finish her sentence, replaced by excitent bursting out of her eyes. "Then, what are we still waiting for, standing around like that? Let's go!"
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