The Quite Ordinary and Utterly Unremarkable Guide to Charming Glass

by velvet-sometimes

It is quite a thing, to be the eldest of three. And Sophie Hatter had contented herself with her perfectly 'lovely' and ordinary existence in Market Chipping. But giving in to the temptation of a dusty old tome opens the way to a dangerous journey, where beauty is in the eye of the beholder - and the greatest adventure is learning how to 'see'.

1. Leisure

Disclaimer: I don't own Howls Moving Castle (the book or the movie, sadly), no matter how much i do love both versions so. I'm also not making a cent of profit from this; this is a fanbased work, merely for improving my own writing, and playing with themes.

Leisure

Sophie Hatter thought herself to be rather lucky, given that being eldest of three was so unlucky. She had a lovely little bookshop, Propriety Books, that passed to her by her master upon the completion of her apprenticeship, and she had a lovely little house out behind it, in a lovely little town called Market Chipping. The people were all quite nice, and business was just steady enough that she was content in her work, with enough time for a leisurely read as she waited on her customers.

Really, the only way she thought to describe her life, was lovely.

"Of course, Mrs. Smith," she told the older woman with a smile, lifting the folding board that separated the counter and the back room from the store proper. "The Proper Guide To Cooking came in just this morning. Let me go into store room and fetch it for you."

"If you could hurry, dearie, I've errands to run!" Mrs. Smiths voice called out to her as she disappeared behind the curtain into the dimly lit storeroom.

Note: Welcome to my newest adventure in the world of Studio Ghibli! I expect most of you early readers will be those who just finished Ablution; my Spirited Away piece. But I do hope that each and every one of you who stops in to read find yourself enjoying yourselves. One last note before I'm off, I'd like to inform you all that this is indeed a Drabble series. Which means chapters between 100 and 300 words long. Do not fret though.