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.