Author's Note: Howdy, y'all... word on the street is Chapter 21, is readying to be seen right here, right now this time on the gal and her boss, y'know; anyways, here it is...

Now you best be enjoying this there story now, ya hear...

Caca(o) Beans

The weather was starting to get cold outside seeing that the sky had been turning into darkness with a squall or two rolling alongside the dimmed atmosphere, a twilight that fell as the sun was eclipsed into a new moon rising within only hours before a breaking dawn had hovered over the fair city where lights soused every single urban establishment and resident, big or small, in a luminous wave; even so, the random swatch of color from the west was proof. A plasmid abundance of stars scattered countlessly throughout the nighttime sky, forming a bond of constellations between dwarves and giants from all reaches of the pulsars and the magnetars within the supernova. The serenity still had remained neatly on the very street for although the rainstorm was from yesterday afternoon earlier the black tar that had been laid on the streets just remained the same as it was like before, being ran over by vehicles of all sizes, makes, and even models on every lighted street, road, turnpike, avenue, even bridge, tunnel, highway, freeway, and even some went off road. A calm breeze strolled through the town offering a sense of serenity to passers-by; in turn, many pedestrians (and bicyclists) were all aware that the breeze would keep many of them cool and unperturbed as most went to go home yet the chills haunted the reveries going on in reality itself. People were seen but were hastening back home, most of which wanted to go back to their wives and/or their kids; some wanted to go back to their comfort of their home; others just want to get some siesta so they can go to work ready and alert; a few even stayed behind to milk off the youth of the night itself.

Despite this beauty whatsoever outside, the inside is what had mattered as the scene of employer and employee had become fresh into the mind and body altogether; currently at that moment, Eradicus was attempting to put in a digital video disc inside a monitor that had presumably came straight out of a carrying case all for Ella to watch and stand aside at attention. "Umm, sir… what are you trying to do here?" the feline telepath had asked her griffin employer as the latter was holding the flat disc(us) by the epicenter within the tip of his talons in midair. Turning to face her with only a blank expression, he had given out a simple answer, "what does it look like I'm doing…? I'm trying to put this 'DVD' inside this rectangle of blackness so I can watch this so-called 'movie' I picked up." "Those people here call it a television, sir…" said Ella correctively to Eradicus bluntly even though she could've normal earned at best a smack across the body or worse a zap of electricity for it; but somehow, this was not the case as she'd continued on nevertheless, "as a matter of fact, what are you trying to watch anyway?" "Well, I'm glad that you have asked: this movie here is called 'Spooky Movie' and I had recently picked it up at a bazaar a few days ago; for some reason, I'm afraid I might destroy this thing before I even get to watch it…" the griffin had answered the feline's question as the former had started to see the DVD slipping from one of the talons, moments away from falling onto the very floor itself altogether. Reactively, he caught it within the palm of his other upper talon before it had the chance to hit the floor, sighing afterwards in relief; at that moment, she had then asked her employer curiously, "do you wish for me to help you with that?" "Well, fine then; as you were…" Eradicus said as he handed it over to Ella so she can do so and get it over with, which she did as she ascended from the floor telekinetically as she takes it from him and slides the disc inside the monitor; afterwards, the former commented the latter with relief, "ahh… thanks, now I can watch the movie already; do you wish to watch it with me tonight?" "Maybe another time sir… some of the employers are planning to go bowling in about two hours from now but I'm not sure if I want to go anyway," the feline declined as she gotten her own two feet back onto solid ground.

For some strange reason here, it was practically obvious that there was no hint of antagonism going around in their minds at all tonight between the two people in this room, not that it wasn't uncommon per se but nevertheless rare. Then, Eradicus decided to ask Ella another question, "what is this 'bowling' do they speak of; how does one play it?" "It's a game sir…" the feline had answered the griffin's question, "it's where people try to knock down as many pins as they can in a limit of two tries per frame as far as I had probably remembered." "Like bocce ball right?" he had interjected as if it were but a comparison. Twiddling around with her hair a bit, she had replied calmly, "yeah, something like that sir."

Somehow, this subject could have been continued on by Ella's (in)decision concerning the evening outing to be but she had kept still anyway, just as the subject had started to change again. "So, do we have anything to report on so far with today since this morning?" Eradicus had asked his employee, "anything in particular at all so far that should be raising concerns for the whole company?" "Well, ever since yesterday morning, we have lost 81.1% of our original customers to Scarbucks while our profits have dropped by over seven percent even since," the feline had answered the griffin's question as she took an aside glance at the charts on the clipboard in possession. Pondering on it for a bit, he then said to her calmly, "hmm… I see then; well then, do we have any plan here to remedy the situation?" "Currently as of yet, we have not come up any plans to do so…" Ella said to Eradicus calm on the outside but thinking all the time, "however, the company is taking up suggestions to counteract it." "Really, what are one of the suggestions for anyway?" the griffin turned to face the feline as she was starting to flip the pages over on the clipboard. She started to read one of them to him when she did so, "well, Mr. Sorenstein suggested that we 'blow up the Scarbucks café with lasers and machineguns' and all that crap." "Wait a second… can I look at the clipboard here for a moment?" Eradicus asked with a look of surprise on his face as Ella handed it over for the former to look at what the latter had read aloud wordlessly, "did he even say that?" "I'd be lying if I said no, sir…" the feline answered the griffin emotionless as the latter returned the clipboard back to her. He then faced the television screen once more as the movie had finally loaded up and said to her, "I see… in that case, send him to my office first thing tomorrow morning; you're dismissed for tonight…"

Now, Ella was free to do whatever she wanted to do for the night as she had then left Eradicus to watch Spooky Movie in his office alone…

Author's Note: Okay, you guys are probably suspecting some of the OOCness in there and I don't blame you for any reason at all; seeing that I've allowed myself to be preoccupied with many things, I had just cranked it out in mere due haste, not Du Hast, due haste my dear friends. Leave that to Rammstein for now okay. On the bright side, I'm starting to build some continuity here anyway by throwing in some of the coffee here and the Spooky Movie their, all that crap; speaking of which, the chapter title was originally going to be called 'Every Camera Has Even Lens On Newfound Schemes' which was to set the mood for building it all the way up to where the episode Unmoving Pictures takes place and how the movie Woo Foo Panda came to be itself seeing that it would make a great title with the acronyms I've stolen from Codename: Kids Next Door which would have spelled ECHELONS. But upon reaching the fourth paragraph, I've decided to change it to that seeing that it still takes place after the episode Creeping With the Enemy and how the business is planning to contemplate on it, making myself laugh a bit at once when I thought of it as a joke and all. Onto jokes, I've hidden an Easter egg in the story a bit early; who(m)ever guesses it right in the review will be given a sneak peak of chapter 22 but for now...

PLEASE R&R