“How… How did you even manage all that?”
“I-I slipped and the ribbons in my arms scattered and I kind of slipped again on a stray ribbon when I tried to get up and it was really dark because I couldn’t find the light switch and then I stepped on my skirt and-”
snrk
“Floor, be nice.”
“Sorry, it’s just… It was really funny.”
“She could have hurt herself!”
“But she didn’t! …Man, you should have seen it! She looked just like this scene from an eroge I-”
“Floor!”
“I- It just slipped out! I didn’t mean-”
“What’s an eroge?”
“Nothing to worry about, Ceily! How about you… go run off and finish up that secret thing you were doing?”
“Y-yeah! What uh- what your dad said! …sorry.”
“S-secret thing…?” O-oh! Right, my ‘secret thing’… H-hehe, you’re gonna love it once it’s done, dad! I’ll be back inna bit!”
“Annnd there she goes!”
“Uh-huh.”
”…You know, it’s not much of a surprise when you’re talking about it all the time.”
“Let her have this, hon.”