“How was your morning, dear?” She asked.
“Actually, I woke up rather refreshed this morning, it was really nice.” You replied with a calm smile, then proceeded to ask, “When are you working till today?”
“Oh, well.” She opened the top desk drawer and pulled out a note. Putting her readers on, that were hanging from her neck by a necklace, she read it to you. “Just your normal duties like scanning and putting returns away, helping anyone that needs it, etcetera.” she read off, glancing up at you, “But while I’m here, I’d like you to gather the returns from the return bin outside. My back was bothering me this morning so I didn’t get a chance to do it.”
You nodded. “Of course, of course.”
“Also, I mentioned this to you a couple weeks ago, I wanted to know if you would like to paint a winter themed mural for the window? I’d pay you a commission fee of course."
Right, you forgot that she mentioned that. A year and a half ago, you graduated college, art college, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. Aside from working full time at the library, you were also a freelance illustrator, trying to make a name for yourself. You hadn’t made all that much progress yet, but you were getting there.
As you opened your mouth to reply, the door of the library opened and a rather large group of monster and human children flooded the library, all between the ages of 6 and 12. They were followed in by a goat-like monster, who was holding a large bag. You smiled, it was Toriel.
Toriel shushed the rowdy children and they calmed instantly, “Now now, my children, I’d like you all to pick out two books today, alright? One about what we learned today in class, and one for your enjoyment.”
In unison the children replied, “Yes, Miss Toriel.”
Toriel gave the kids the okay to disperse, and with surprising silence, they did. Toriel then made her way over to the front desk where Winnie and you were.
“Good afternoon, Toriel.” you smiled.
Toriel was the nicest monster you ever met, yeah, most of them were pretty nice, but Toriel was literally the nicest. She was the monster to establish the first monster elementary school in your city, and after only a few short months, she started accepting human children. She treated each child as if they were her own, and one of them was actually her adopted child, Frisk. Frisk was the legendary child who was the last human to fall into the underground, and helped shatter the barrier, as well as the child ambassador between human and monster relations. you were really proud of them.