An interviewer is doing a fluff piece on a very special sort of store. And gets more involved than she originally planned. Gee, where have we seen this before? <grin>
I had a different title for this at first, but I went back to an old Trust Machines tradition and named it after the main character. I was going to do an homage to Ordos Tsceri's first Cosmagic story, but... well, Chantilly decided she'd have a different sort of life, and a different sort of ending.
What started as a little bit of fluff acquired more substance than I expected. I have a second story in mind for Chantilly, playing on the name. After that? Who knows.