Behind the Scenes: Lauren story

I finished doing linearts for the part 1 of a story. Starting next week I'm gonna work on more writing. This is when a new character, Lauren Ipsum, will debut. She's a bunny librarian who's also a writer.

The story is far from finished, but here are the notes I have so far:

 - Kat is happy to return to St. Paws in a really convenient way via  portal door. They explain it's some mumbo jumbo technology that the  royal engineers developed.

- The gang heads to the castle, where  Kat and Felicia reunites with Frederick (Kat's dad and Felicia's  husband), finally giving him a proper debut appearance. They end up  hitting off with the human cast really well, even calling Jordan  "bubba", something she's confused about. ("Why bubba? What is it about  me that gives me the label "bubba"?)

- Frederick was in the  middle of a meeting with Prince Prince, the dog prince Kat has a crush  on. Kat nervously goes to talk to him. The Prince is glad to see her and  suggests they go to the cafe and catch up later, saying he has "big  news".

- Kat still has a crush on him and decides to confess her  feelings to him, but doesn't know how. Kuma suggests writing him a love  poem, which she actually thinks is a good idea, but doesn't know how.  Kuma throws some ideas, but Kat doesn't like any of them. She decides to  head to the castle library and research love poems.

- Kat tells  her dad that when she runs off to the library, even saying it's so she  can tell the Prince how she feels. This stuns Frederick, who tries to  tell her something but she's run off. Frederick can only say "Oh boy".

-  While this is going on, Krisa and the bird (who snuck in with them)  sees all of this and decide to kidnap the Prince for ransom from the  castle.

- While there she runs into Lauren Ipsum, who works at  the library (although at this point we don't know her name yet). At  first Kat doesn't take notice into Lauren all that much, but when she  tells her she wants to look up love poems so she can write her own,  Lauren offers to help her out, being a writer herself. The two talk back  and forth and actually hit it off. Lauren writes Kat a poem she can  use, which she likes. She runs off with them.

- Krisa  and the bird were able to kidnap the Prince, who is waiting at the cafe  she told her to meet earlier, by putting sleeping powder in the tea he  was drinking.

(at this point,  I'm still undecided how the rescue would go. Maybe Kat goes to the cafe  and waits for him, only to be informed by Chiro or someone that he was  kidnapped. Kat goes to rescue him either way, with or without help).

-  After Kat rescues the Prince, it's at this point she's about to tell  him her feelings, but the Prince gives his news first: he's getting  married to another girl in the kingdom (a duchess or someone)! He was  talking to Frederick to help plan the wedding, and was hoping to invite  the royal family, including Kat, for it.

-  Kat is shocked, but manages to pull a straight face and congratulate  him, saying she'll be happy to be at the wedding. The Prince is  grateful, and gives her a hug for saving him earlier.

-  Just as the Prince leaves, Kat shows she's extremely disappointed as to  what happened, sighing sadly. Assuming the others are there (helping  her rescue the Prince), maybe they can try comforting her, but either  way Kat just wants to be alone for a while and leaves sadly.

- She ends up at the library from earlier, just sitting down sadly.

- Lauren shows up, asking how it went. Kat explains that he's already found another girl and never got to use the poem.

-  Lauren, seeing how crushed Kat is, goes to comfort her. She explains  she's had bad luck in romance before. Kat tells of her past bad luck as  well. Eventually the two start cheering each-other up. Maybe at some  point Kat calls her cute, which catches both of them off-guard. It's at  this point that Kat finally asks Lauren what her name is.