Admittedly, I'm a bit conflicted with meeting Detective Steele again... In both Celtic's and Vixyy's contributions to the murder mystery prompt, it was Detective Steele that tried to drown me in the first place!

"Oh. Can I see under your hood?"
*Abruptly ceases walking and turns to Shelby. A gloved finger is directed toward the feline's nose.*
"Shelby? No."

An exceptional follow up to the ongoing goofiness that Roidh decided he wanted to start. Because it's all Roidh's fault!

Eep! I guess I wasn't picking up on that, but it makes his surprise to see you even more fun!

I just hope I got all the nonsense right! Which is kinda a weird thing to say.

"Woah. Hold on. You can't just say whiskey. What type of whiskey?" The arctic kitsune snapped his fingers and a bevy of bottles began to rise slowly from the floor. Each one took it's place floating if suspended by an invisible string. One by one, they took their place forming a solid wall over bottles. "Fortunately for you I happen to be a whiskey aficionado and I love tapping into my personal collection. I actually used to run a monthly tasting club. So, what type of whiskey would you like?" The fox said with a grin as his two tails wagged uncontrollably behind him.

Oh, and fun story. Try not to let that cat-like curiosity get too far under the hood. Might actually wind up dead.

Thank you!!

"I didn't realize you had so many choices hiding back there. Jameson Black Barrel then, please."

"I can do that, but perhaps I might tempt you with this bottle of Redbreast. It is a far superior Irish whiskey."

In all seriousness, I actually am a massive whiskey collector. I've got 250+ bottles all stuffed into my little apartment.

"Nee... alright, I'll give it a try. You are the expert here after all."

That's a lot of whiskey bottles! I'd say Black Barrel has been my favorite inexpensive sipping whiskey, but lately I've been getting into smoked scotches and whiskeys, and really enjoying some of them. There's a local one I got recently that I really like, they smoke it with mesquite wood!

Anyway I'm no conesaur, but I do like a nice whiskey lol

Smokey scotch is so good... I used to actually curate a whiskey tasting club at my old workplace. Like I wouldn't go so far to say that I'm an expert, but I know enough. I've also been to Scotland twice to go touring around the distilleries (I'm mostly a scotch fan).

I definitely would call Jameson Black Barrel a great whiskey for it's price. To me though, an "inexpensive sipping whiskey" is about a $70 in my collection. The average price of most bottles I own is probably closer to $150 with some being worth over $1k. >.>

I might have an issue.

Also, smoked with mesquite wood sounds great. I'd love to try that.

I think $70 is on the expensive end lol. $100 is about my cap, and I think the most expensive bottle I ever bought was $115 and it ended up being a huge letdown.

I'll message you a link! Not sure if you can order it though, it might be local only.

Wow, so now we get to know that when FtD rescues someone, they travel back to this initial location where the party was. And I have to check these stories where the Detective was because I haven't read them, haha.

And now I really wonder if I should try writing one of these stories myself or not.

Also actually in my opinion it looks like a situation that canon Shelby could find herself in, lol. But I didn't read that many stories with Shelby anyways.

Welp, let's just hope that they won't try to look under his hood again when FtD manages to return everyone back there. Also: " the feline found herself falling through the doorway and sliding along the polished wooden floor on her stomach, arms out in front of her and feet up in the air" lol, this was unexpected but sounds so fun. I would do it too if I saw the floor allows that. xD

You should do a story too! It's fun :D

I based her falling into the room off of Roidh's return, just thought it would be funny if she came back in a similar manner lol. I think Roidh rolled through the room though, I thought sliding would be more fun.

"And now I really wonder if I should try writing one of these stories myself or not."

Absolutely, the whole thing is just a bit of fun! ;)

Brilliant, and nice way to make an entrance! Also good to see Detective Steele again, though FtD may not agree ;)

Thank you! This was a lot of fun to write for sure. Yeah, FtD probably wanted to skiddaddle as quickly as he could!

Seems I missed something very important in the TP history, never expected it breaking the fourth wall hah... And seems I'm gonna reread FtD's and Roidh's stories, I start forgetting all what's going on. But again facing the fact - having no idea about its backstory, still I'm highly impressed by the writing and the story hehe^^

Oh I missed it all too, but some silly nonsense that happened recently got my creative juices flowing and this oddity was the result lol.

I'm glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the fav!!