KALOPSIA | DOMOWIK | WC: 830

Nisley was in love.

Well, as in love as they could be, really. They'd just found the most lovely family —well… Some of them were lovely. The man wasn't, but the lovely lady and her child were just perfect. And Nisley was in love. Maybe that was a byproduct of the family needing Nisley into existence, but they were more than happy to step up to the job!

Even if the family couldn't quite see Nisley as they went about their chores, the lovely lady was always happy to find nicely cleaned counters and vacuumed floors and all her missing things back where they belonged. The man, though, well Nisley didn't like him very much. So maybe Nisley squirreled away some of his things —that sock could be pushed under the bookshelf, and that driver's license could be misplaced just so.

Nisley always made sure that blame wouldn't fall on the lovely lady or her son. They were just too nice, in the way they tidied up after themselves and showed appreciation for all of Nisley's hard work! Nisley was starting to think the lovely lady was getting suspicious of them, but that couldn't be. Nisley was always hidden! They snuck between the not-there spaces, avoiding the terribly bothersome nisse who already had claimed the house, and always made sure to cloak themselves in shadows when they weren't hidden entirely.

The nisse was barely around, anyways. Besides, all Nisse did was sneak away with lost things and make life harder for poor families; plus, they weren't even connected to families, just places! Nisley had checked, then double checked, and it was very clear that the nisse popped up because of the last renters, and didn't do anything but laze about now that Nisley's family was here!

But Nisley was doing their good, proper, domovik job. Tidying things up, sneaking away only with bits of bread and fruit and milk, and protecting the lovely lady and her son from everything Nisley could… which meant most things, except the nasty man.

That's okay. Nisley had popped up to talk to the nice djinn upstairs and he'd suggested that maybe Nisley could make a little accident happen, nothing major, and maybe the man could slip on something and fall just a little too hard and bump his head and maybe never wake up again! That wasn't quite in Nisley's domovik repertoire, but Nisley was adaptable and maybe a little in love. Besides, there were so few domovik here, and they didn't really have "rules" anyways, so there wasn't anyone there to tell Nisley not to make an accident happen.

But Nisley had to be sneaky.

The nice djinn upstairs told Nisley that the lovely lady was worried about her son being found without the nasty man hanging around, but the djinn had also promised that he could get someone to lay down protections on top of Nisley's own to keep the lovely lady safe. So Nisley just had to not get caught, because if the lovely lady found out what Nisley planned to do, she'd probably tell them no, and Nisley didn't want to hear a no.

So Nisley was sneaky. They had to make sure that only the nasty man were at home, and that both the lovely lady and her son were in places that would be recorded, which meant the best time was when the son was at school and the lovely lady was at work. It had to be a day when the lovely lady got off earlier from work too though, since Nisley knew she wouldn't appreciate her son walking home to find —well, find that man.

That meant the very best day to plan an accident was a Thursday. Nisley didn't like Thursdays. Thursdays were the days where the nasty man stayed home, getting his slime everywhere and making a mess out of Nisley's attempts to clean the house. So Thursdays were the best day.

Nisley also knew that the best way to stage an accident was to not change much from normal, which meant Nisley just had to add a little something to the beer the nasty man always drank, so Nisley snuck around to find a nice witch that could help… and Nisley did remember the lovely lady talking about Babka, and she seemed like the kind of witch who could Nisley visited Babka and got a little something to put into the nasty man's drink when it was time.

Next was moving things around just so they were set up in the right places to make sure everything was very final. If Nisley put the glass top table right there, and made a wrinkle in the rug over there, and spilled something slippery here, and broke one of the legs of the chairs over there… well there was hardly anything the nasty man could do but have an accident. So the plan was set.

Nisley would do anything for the lovely lady.