Where Button Has Been

After finding Button checking out the Christmas tree, I managed to convince her to tell me about where she's been hiding out for the past few months.

Imagine my surprise when she told me she'd been in my own basement closet! 

Once we arrived, she glanced around a bit, like she was looking for something,  but then turned and said "Yeah, so, this is where I live now."

She seemed to have made herself right at home in one of my boots. It had fallen on its side, making a little cave of sorts. She had bedding and a chess board, which I found curious. The pieces were strewn all over the place, like the game had been violently interrupted. 

"You play chess by yourself?" I asked her, and she just nervously laughed and said something like it was the only way to find an equally bad opponent.

She said she'd made her home here shortly after I found her stuff in the potion shop, and that it was pretty cozy. Ginny (my Chihuahua) didn't bug her anymore, and whenever she started sniffing around, Button could just run back, deeper into the boot and she was safe. She said it was nice that I had this pair of boots I never wore, 'cause they were brand new and perfect to live in. She was just like the old lady in the shoe, she joked. 

She seemed really restless and nervous about something. She didn't want to hang around her boot house and asked if I had any leftover pumpkin pie from Thanksgiving she could have.

In the kitchen.

Right away.

I said that I did, and she could. And off we went.

I will be moving Button out of her boot house into something (hopefully) nicer. I feel like such a bad companion, but at least she hasn't been alone all this time. Oh, she says she's been here alone, but I'm not so sure I believe that she's been playing chess by herself... 

 and I wonder why she would need TWO sleeping bags.

Hmmmm.

- Wendy