Who: Chloe and Kali
When: Evening
Where: The Tiki Hut
What: Chloe is closing up when an interesting person comes along.

Closing up shop at the end of the day took a lot of work. More work than people thought, at least as far as Chloe was concerned. Everything had to be cleaned and put away, and then the things that didn’t have to be cleaned but put away were folded up nicely and tucked away so the wind wouldn’t blow them into the lake overnight. Torches had to be put out one by one, and The Tiki Hut had tons of torches. With the help of her co-workers, The Tiki Hut was finally ready to close once all of the torches were extinguished. Chloe was in the middle of helping out with that when she noticed a figure in the distance.

Chloe frowned and rolled her eyes. Few people apparently cared to read the signs that The Tiki Hut closed early during bad weather. Sometimes they were open all day with different shifts for the workers, but right now it was down to daytime only. It was way too cold these days at night to be drinking beer and dancing themselves silly. Although the idea appealed to Chloe as well, she knew it wasn’t any fun doing those things while your teeth chatted along in your mouth to the beat of the music.

“We’re closed!” she called out, hoping the late night customer would get the picture and head back home. “We don’t serve once we start cleaning up! Everything is put away already!” Chloe was still focusing on extinguishing the torches, which was kind of fun sometimes. The thing she used for it looked a lot like an oversized soup ladle, and it made her grin in amusement to think she was using a kitchen utensil to put out fires.