A bubble containing Kuroni and one version of Andalun reappears back behind the counter. It pops, letting them down onto the floor, and the other version of Andalun finishes serving a customer, looks over his shoulder and says, "What time do you call this?"<br/><br/>The other Andalun smirks. "You should know, you've been here before, when you were me."<br/><br/>"Geeze, I was a smart aleck when I was younger..."<br/><br/>"You still are, granddad!"<br/><br/>"True... I've got a couple of things to tell you before you go back..."<br/><br/>"Do I have to? You could go!"<br/><br/>"Uh uh, I did my turn in the bucket. Not only would it doom me to an eternal groundhog-day-like circle of lunchtime rush hour, but the paradox would destroy the entire multiverse. Besides I was here before, and I lost the argument then, when I was you."<br/><br/>"Okay, lay that funky future history on me. Oh, I need a notepad and a spare potion of..."<br/><br/>The other Andalun produces them from under the counter.<br/><br/>The younger one scribbles a note on the top page, tears it off and stores it and the potion in a pocket in the  apron he puts on. As he gets ready, the older version of himself fills him in about the food-fight between a reformed dementor who stopped in for some soul food cake (made with artificial souls, but ones that taste just like the real thing) and a Kzin. He also indicated the plates that were once a red fox rogue, and were currently carrying stacks of fairy cakes (OOC: I'll leave it up to the reader to decide the nature of those).<br/><br/>The younger one sweeps Kuroni into a dip, and kisses her. "You were delicious! I'll see you about an hour ago. Till then!"<br/><br/>He pulled a time turner from his apron and let the sand drop to a particular level. Then he flipped it, and vanished.<br/><br/>The remaining Andalun now stepped over to Kuroni and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Hi honey, I'm back from the past, the long way round."<br/><br/>Kuroni still looks a bit dazed. "Ahh... You were... but he was you and you are me and he are she and we are all together... Mah head hurts!"<br/><br/>"As the doctor says, if comntemplating the paradoxes of time travel doesn't give you a headache, you've failed to grasp the concept."<br/><br/>Kuroni still looked puzzled. "Doctor who?"<br/><br/>"Exactly." Andalun smirked, then took pity on the poor confused tanuki girl. "I've got my old box sets somewhere, I'll show you later."<br/><br/>"Just as well, because you still have a shift to complete!" Kimiko was standing there, arms folded, one paw drumming  digits on her upper arm. "And Kuroni has deliveries. One caller asked for her especially, according to... that was you, not the other one..." She rubbed her forehead.<br/><br/>Andalun jumped to attention. "Yes ma'am!"<br/><br/>Kimiko thumped his chest with the back of a paw, which clearly didn't bypass his damage reduction. "You were right, you are a smart aleck. Go, go, hiyaku, hiyaku! We have confectionary to bake, deliveries to make and much to sell before we sleep and wake!"<br/><br/>"Uh, I don't think the original quote works that way." Andalun stepped up to the counter, and put on his best smile for a waiting customer, who'd been enjoying the free show.<br/><br/>"I improved it." Kimiko stated, and strode off like a conquerer, tails held high, to hand Kuroni a list, and a stack of boxes.