She drinks her steamy frappe absent-mindedly as the bustling city moves around her patio table. She ignores how passersby stare incredulously at her shadow familiar. she always hated when Victor insisted upon coming with her on her weekly outings to the Big City. shed much rather have him stay at home and guard the ward. Victor, her familiar, lazily floats circles over her table, passing in and out of her mortal and mostly carbon-based form. as he would brush by, the dangles on her family's signature chest-piece jingled in a harmonic melody. victor stopped circling when he heard the distinctive girgle of his mistress's empty Polyethylene cup
"It's time to go victor, my father will be calling soon." her chair skidded loudly and she stiffy stood. eyes peered at her and victor as they sauntered into the depths of the crowd.