Naki was planning to sit in a corner by himself too...most people expect to socialize when they go to parties, but he'd never been very good at that, and he didn't exactly know the birthday boy, and - well.

So it was that he found himself with fluffy things on his shoulders, as his unaffected dog carrier trotted over to sniff at Shin-Ah's plate.

"Ah...." With a plate full of food in his hands, all he could really do right now was stop in his tracks, tilting his head left and right to try to see the creatures. Blue fur...??