Ever since you took residence in Howl’s Moving Castle, he had never failed to be the biggest brat in the universe. Even Markl, who was only 10, was much more compliant with lots of things compared to the all powerful wizard he was learning under.

When you first moved in, the place was an absolute mess. Cleaning it luckily didn’t take long, and even cooking a simple breakfast impressed everyone. Markl especially said that he didn’t remember the last time they had a real breakfast, which had slightly shocked you.

Howl, still, would sometimes get into a bad mood and remain pouty for the whole day. He was extremely overdramatic about everything, and would get even grouchier when Calcifer called him out on it.

For dinner tonight, Markl wanted some simple pasta, going to the store with you during the day to pick some ingredients up. He was super excited and was talking about it the whole day, attempting to help you out with Calcifer, even though he had gotten quite used to you cooking. Once everything was all cooked up, you divided everything up evenly between a few plates.

Markl immediately started to stuff his face, but Howl just turned his nose up as you pushed a plate in front of him. He was being even more bratty than usual, grumbling about wanting something else, even though he never once mentioned anything. You were fed up with his attitude, asking how he’d like a different dinner, before putting a couple of fingers in his mouth to shut him up. He was very surprised by the action at first, but quickly decided to run his tongue along the digits in his mouth without more than a moment’s hesitation.

“I suppose it’s better than pasta, but definitely not what I wanted.”