Sara’s hand descended with the steadiness of a practiced Guardian, her palm opening like a stage at the edge of Chloe’s dresser. The warm wood beneath their feet greeted Jordan and Kelli as they stepped off with care, the subtle hush of the movement making the moment feel almost sacred. Jordan offered a nod of thanks, an unconscious gesture now, something almost familial. Kelli, though more reserved, didn’t resist. Not anymore.
Sara turned away without fanfare, her steps soundless across the plush carpet as she crossed the private suite. She crouched beside a sleek, midnight-blue duffel bag, clearly well-loved, its corners softened by use—and unzipped it, drawing out a smaller satchel nestled inside. Her hands moved with the gentle precision of someone unpacking something personal, not just items but choices made with intention.
Chloe glanced over from where she reclined on the chaise, her eyes narrowing with curiosity. The bag was small, compact. But from the way Sara opened it, like a treasure chest, Chloe knew it wasn’t ordinary.
“All that for Jordan?” she asked, tilting her head. Her voice carried that warm blend of amusement and disbelief that only Chloe could deliver.
Sara didn’t look up. “Yeah. My mom’s still recovering from the credit statement. She kept saying it was irresponsible, ‘It’s just Little clothes, Sara, they’ll outgrow them.’ Like he’s going to molt into a butterfly next month or something. I know she was just grasping at straws from the sticker shock though. She views it as a waste to spend that kind of money on little clothes.”
She pulled out tiny folded sleepwear holding it up with a kind of reverence. “But he needed a full wardrobe. Something that’s his, not just things resized or recycled from some generic template. So I curated four seasonal wardrobes, spring, summer, fall, winter. About a hundred pieces in each. I’ve already planned the base collection, so all I have to do is update them with a few statement pieces each year.”
Chloe leaned up on one elbow, brow arching. “You realize most Guardians cycle between two or three outfits for male Littles, right? I’ve seen the database stats. The fashion gap between male and female Littles is… considerable.”
Sara’s nose crinkled, clearly unimpressed. “Yeah, well Jordy’s not just some Little. He’s my Little. I’m not going to have him looking like some drab street urchin just because boys get shortchanged in the aesthetics department. I mean, I have standards. Even my throw pillows match.”
Jordan, now seated with his back against a compact stack of jewelry boxes, raised an eyebrow but said nothing. Kelli gave a quiet chuckle under her breath.
“Speaking of,” Sara continued, her tone shifting from playful to inquisitive, “Once the shopping district in your Little City is up and running, do you think Jordy could get access? I’d send him with Kelli, she’s got a solid eye for fashion. Or maybe we could loop in a fashion coordinator? Because bless him, Jordy couldn’t color-coordinate his way out of a monochrome prison.” Sara said setting the sleepwear in front of Jordan and some female sized sweatpants and a shirt in front of Kelli.
Chloe’s eyes glimmered at the prospect, already shifting into designer-thinker mode. “We hadn’t originally envisioned the shopping quarter being accessible to outside Littles. But that’s mostly because the scenario never came up… Hmm.” Her eyes flicked toward the wall, as if the blueprint was already unfurling there. “We’d need some kind of integrated ID system. Maybe a temporary sync with the Guardian’s collar… No, wait, if we leveraged the collar’s subnetwork—”
She trailed off as Sara’s lips pressed gently to hers.
Chloe blinked, pulled from her spiral of logistics and layered tech problems, her expression softening as she exhaled against the sudden quiet. Sara’s fingers lightly brushed her jaw, coaxing her attention back with the kind of gravity that didn’t need words.
“You can invent the infrastructure tomorrow, Ms. Gracewood,” Sara whispered against her mouth. “Right now, you have a lost soul standing in front of you… and she’s in desperate need of directions to your bed.”
Chloe laughed, low and warm, letting her forehead fall against Sara’s. “You’re trouble, you know that?”
“I’m your trouble,” Sara said, nudging Chloe gently backward with her palm until Chloe’s back met the edge of her mattress.
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lol i love chloe. and i love the idea of littles not part of the Little Cities being able to visit and shop and stuff. helps the extended universe a lot
It adds the possibility of it happening. Being they woudln’t be with their guardian while in the city and the cities setup to use generitech currency. There would need to be some hurdles to overcome.
are littles in the city collared too? I’d assume so but never really thought about it until now
All littles in the us or entering the us are required to be collared once the law takes effect.
I could see exterior Littles refusing to leave the Little Cities and return to their guardian, needing LCPD to drag them back to a designated “pick up area”
I could see that happening
I love the idea of a high end place in a office tower that is a little only Mall that guardians can just drop off and let them shop and put money in their account through their collar. I am sure other stuff can be set up in the same office tower that is little only. I am sure a lot of guardians would like to be able to just drop off their littles some where they can have nice eatery’s and shopping just for them and have everything sized for them and be able to socialize with littles and get used to the new Woman are bigger and run little society and get their hair cut like their guardian wants by sending a photo to the hair dresser. That would be a printing money place in a city like New York where their is a large amounts of rich people that like to spoil their pets for them selves and to brag to their friends.
They would probably just make a little specific shopping district and not have them in the actual little cities but it would depend on demand and how it ends up working out to garner the most profits.
I am sure I wrote it wrong but that’s what I was trying to say lol.
The line from Sara’s mom about Jordan outgrowing clothes was funny and sad in a way, considering Jordan is stuck at that size forever.
Ooo that’s a good point lol I thought it was just funny, but yeah Its also telling how disconnected her mom is from the Littles
The intent was she is more upset about the amount. So was kind of making up justifications on the fly as to why Sara shouldn’t spend so much. I added a bit of additional text to add clarity.
oh haha guess i read into it a little too much XD
Sara’s mom was more upset about the amount of money.
shows her mom thinks of Jordan like a Saras little kid which I guess is better then a pet lol.
Tif sees Jordan as a pet, but has noticed that Sara treats him like a child.
1) “The warm wood beneath their feet greeted Jordan and Kelli as they stepped off with care,” Why is the wood warm? Has Chloe got a heated dresser?
2) “All that for Jordan?” she asked, tilting her head. Her voice carried that warm blend of amusement and disbelief that only Chloe could deliver.” It is surprising how much she’s spent on him, given her treatment of him.
3.1) “It’s just Little clothes, Sara, they’ll outgrow them” If Jordan was five she may have a point, but I can’t see Jordan growing much in the near future.
3.2) “She views it as a waste to spend that kind of money on little clothes.” Too many clothes is a waist of money, I gues it depends on how many clothes Sara bought.
4) “he needed a full wardrobe. Something that’s his, not just things resized or recycled from some generic template. So I curated four seasonal wardrobes, spring, summer, fall, winter. About a hundred pieces in each. I’ve already planned the base collection, so all I have to do is update them with a few statement pieces each year.” I’m with Tiff that was a waist of money. Even if she just got him an autumn wardrobe immediately, and each other season as they approached would’ve made more sense.
5) “You realize most Guardians cycle between two or three outfits for male Littles, right? I’ve seen the database stats. The fashion gap between male and female Littles is… considerable.” another way male Litttles get screwed over in this world. It’s better to have more than that. Littles should have at least one new, clean outfit a day, pyjamas and some specialised clothes for certain occasions. That wouldn’t need to be 400 items, but still need to be more that ntwo outfits.
6) “Yeah, well Jordy’s not just some Little. He’s my Little. I’m not going to have him looking like some drab street urchin just because boys get shortchanged in the aesthetics department. I mean, I have standards. Even my throw pillows match.” In fairness, Chloe should never have thought Sara’s ego would allow that.
7.1) ““Once the shopping district in your Little City is up and running, do you think Jordy could get access? I’d send him with Kelli, she’s got a solid eye for fashion. Or maybe we could loop in a fashion coordinator?” I didn’t think they wanted store Littles interacting with Interior Littles.
7.2) “Jordy couldn’t color-coordinate his way out of a monochrome prison.” SHe’s talking mad shit for a woman who’s never been seen wearing a cape.
8.1) “We hadn’t originally envisioned the shopping quarter being accessible to outside Littles. But that’s mostly because the scenario never came up… Hmm.” I could imagine why she wouldn’t have envisioned it, Genritech seems to treat the Inner and Outer Littles quite drfferently
8.2) “We’d need some kind of integrated ID system. Maybe a temporary sync with the Guardian’s collar… No, wait, if we leveraged the collar’s subnetwork—” already brainstorming ways to bend the rules fer her girlfriend.
9) “You can invent the infrastructure tomorrow, Ms. Gracewood, Right now, you have a lost soul standing in front of you… and she’s in desperate need of directions to your bed.” that’s some good seduction.
10) “You’re trouble, you know that?” “I’m your trouble,” These two are adorable.
1) lol heated dresser. That made me laugh harder then it should. My thought process was Chloe has the room at higher temperature so while it cycles cold to hot still through her vents its at higher temp. THe dresser is near the vent so its warmer.
2) Sara does care about and loves him but doesn’t treat him the way you would prefer a little be treated. She does make sure he has every advantage she can afford monetarily.
3.1) she was just throwing out any reason she could as she didn’t want Sara spending any more money she views it as wasteful.
3.2) Alot, Jordan has a full outfits for each season many pieces organized into their own bag for every season approximately the size of a canvas pencil bag kids used to use at school. Plus each season she has a few pieces for female companions he may have for each season also in the bag. So he has probably a hundred clothing options per season or so.
4) She did go overboard but it fits with her character. as in her eyes she is providing Jordan the best care and best of everything she can afford so he wants for nothing.
5) Sara is way overboard but also at the end of the day it is her money that she is earning. Her parents hold make most of Sara’s earnings into a private account she gets when she graduates.
6) I agree, Chloe should have known.
7) well they were designing it around there littles not really a all purpose district. THey could also build a little shopping district inside little marts.
7.2) lol
8.1) well outer littles as you put them are sold to someone. Outside of selling products to the guardians of littles a little outside the ecosystem only matters so much. THey are a corporation still. They don’t make laws that govern littles or anything. That is sitll the federal government.
8.2) Well it would be for more then just jordan but it would also be about profit. That means littles belonging to guardians could shop and spend money. That would be appealing to them.
9) Sara has her moments and she does love chloe.
10) they have a good relationship.
8.1) does the law require them to sell littles? do you have any lore or notes on how much it’d have costed generitech to house all the littles vs selling some?
They aren’t required to sell littles but mind they didn’t us would probably find a different distributor. As they want littles sold as they reap the profits.
Generitech also makes good money selling littles and littles products.
It would cost billions to house every little and build little cities and maintain them. The sales of littles offset these costs partially along with employing littles to save costs.
gotcha. so kind of “well if the gov is going to force littles to be sold, we may as well be the ones to do it so it’s right” thinking on generitechs part.
1) my mind went to a heated dresser also because why would it be warm lol.
2) I think Sara outside when she just first got him is a loving guardian and has bonded with Jordan like a mother to a kid and of course Jordan has the physical little bond. only Kayla and Kelli with their issues are closer .
1) my mind went to a heated dresser also because why would it be warm lol.
2) I think Sara outside when she just first got him is a loving guardian and has bonded with Jordan like a mother to a kid and of course Jordan has the physical little bond. only Kayla and Kelli with their issues are closer .
3) I am surprised she doesn’t have all his outfits in a large doll closets lol.
4) Another check in the she treats him like her child side lol.
5) Mo money Mo problems lol.
6) I think Chole is being surprised how Sara has a Parent bond to Jordan that is not normal for Guardians to littles I am guessing in her experience.
7) In the real world there are pre planned malls around the country owned by one company so having one pre planned nice little mall where they can have the mall like unfortunately many parents do let the mall babysit their little while they go do something at every little mart would be a great money maker, minimal money out and built in costumers.
8) Better they sell littles safely then someone not doing the right thing.
9 ) & 10) They love each other & are good for each other and I hope they marry.
1) I’m glad it got a laugh, I couldn’t figure out why is was warm when almost every other surface they’ve been put on was cold.
3.1) Typical mother behaviour
3.2) I’m imagining she’d been setting up collection of wanted outfits in case she ever got a little and once she claimed Jordan she just bought the whole wishlist.
4) He wants for plenty, just not things she’s willing or able to provide.
7.1) Hey, that was my suggestion back when Little marts were first introduced, lol
8.1) Yeah, that makes sense.
8.2) Right, but it’s starting as rules being bent for Sara