"You have got yourself a gift, Briony," Bubbles congratulated, giggling when the other drawings were shown off. "Did she actually tell your mom?" Because that was always when the trouble would start, when one of the older kids got concerned and went off telling. Bubbles couldn't stand tattle-tales. They were just brats who didn't know how to take care of their own problems. And besides! What sort of bigger kid told on the innocent little nine-year-old who couldn't have possibly done a thing in the world to hurt them? They were just little. "My last sister liked to go and tell on me but that's okay, she got hurt really bad by this biiiiig dog who didn't like her and she didn't do anything ever again." Bubbles didn't think that she'd actually had a sister in her last family, but she knew that was what had happened to the last one that she'd had. Bubbles was really telling this to Briony, but she kept looking at Kristen when she said it to see how the girl was taking it.
Not well. Not well at all and it was great.
"But if she reported on the bridge then she was working there... oh I guess," Bubbles sighed, then brightened at what Briony said. "They did! All tumbled into the river and some couldn't swim or got hurt, and some of them got blown up." Maybe later she'd tell Briony what'd happened to her at the river. She was pretty sure that another demon could appreciate how amusing it was to meet a mermaid. "What was she doing when she got hurt?" With that question out of the way she'd taken a mouthful of whatever the food was, she tried her best not to taste it, and watched while Kristen tried to move away from Briony and got stopped because Briony didn't want her to move away. Haha. "It's hard not to talk about when it's all that's happening," Bubbles pointed out matter-of-factly. "'cause the explosions were everywhere and there's still vampires! But you know all about vampires, don't you Kristen? I mean, there was that thing on the news about how you got attacked by one or something. I meant to ask you about that 'cause I wanted to know if your puppy was okay." Bubbles wanted to play with that puppy.