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[Astrea Grim Spire]

It hadn't exactly been a secret that Nikki was disappointed that Junior (or any piece of him) wouldn't be viable for any of her plans. Unfortunately, Astrea's little pet was the work of a mad genius so death was not likely to ever happen to him unless there were extreme measures taken. Those measures wouldn't leave much of the little guy for Nikki to work with though. The look of the woman's face had come back to Astrea on occassion when she played with the furry little guy. 

It was during the day when she was roaming one of the malls that she saw something that should have been sad but the opportunist in her decided that it would be a perfect gift instead. So she did what any caring friend would. She slipped right into the pet store and let the poor man know that one of his wares was dead. Actually it wasn't but it was about to be according to what she saw. It took a little convincing but she managed to tell the man exactly when it would die and left the store. A few hours later before she left, she stopped back in to find the man willing to give her the pet in exchange for knowing if anything else in his shop was about to die. Lucky for him, nothing else would for a while and now she had a very special present. Using her magic, she was able to put the beautiful creature into a stasis so that decay and rot wouldn't start to occur right away. Then it was just remembering to find the time to drop it off! 

Having the opportunity to meet August and Snowy on Nexus Grounds, she took the time to make sure she stopped and left the wrapped gift at Nikki's Dorm door. The wrapping was simple white paper with a silver ribbon wrapped around it for adornment. The tag under the ribbon was a simple. 'To You From Me." with a caricature of a cute little reaper complete with scythe to let her know which Me it really was from. Astrea had made it easy so that the wrapping didn't have to be undone. The top pulled up once everything was untied to reveal the gift within all bundled with tissue paper to keep it from being damaged. Lying perfectly still in it's death was a Goliath Tarantula. Complete with a tiny baby blue bow on it's head because Astrea had been in a mood when she wrapped it and she thought Nikki might like it!