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Playing Detective: Part Four: I Think Its Broken...

Ashton went digging through the bag full of stuff while sitting in the doorway to his room. There had to be something in there that would help him in seeing something that was invisible he thought to himself. He wondered if he could use the dust...? Would the powder that found finger prints be able to be used to find whatever it was? He took out the powder then grabbed some of it and tossed it toward where he heard the skittering sound and it fell down in a ran of powder, laid across the surface of his dresser... he could see a trail of prints appear in the powder as the invisible one with the weird feet ran across the top of the dresser... then the piece of furniture vanished from sight and the powder fell down to the ground.

"Well... that worked... sorta." He murmured, setting the remaining powder down and went to digging around in the bag again while he tried to come up with the next idea. At least it seemed while he was sitting i the door way that he whatever he was dealing with wasn't going anywhere. Of course it also meant that slowly but surely everything he owned was starting to vanish piece by piece by piece... he had to hurry or all he was going to have left was a was an empty room!

As he dug around his eyes spotted something that was sitting in the bag that caught his attention, it was the magnifying glass! He grabbed it up by the handle and lifted it up out of the bag. This might help, it made things bigger after all so if it were able to do that maybe it could help with seeing other things as well? He was really to try anything at this point... because he was worried that after the theif got done clearing out this room that he might start to take things that belonged to Roll or even worse things that belonged to Crevan...

As he lifted the magnifying glass up out of the bag and his chocolate colored eyes went wide in shock as he looked down at it, "Oh no..." He breathed, as he inspected the item. It was... it was broken! How did it get broken?! He'd only looked through it the one time and now the lens was missing from it... he gave his head a rapid shake. How had it gotten broken... it wasn't as though he were rough on the item, he'd been very careful. He couldn't even recall putting it down to hard when that first thing had vanished.

"I'm sorry..." He whispered to whoever it was that was kind enough to give him the Detective Kit for no real reason other then out of the kindness of their own heart. The young, mushroom decorated kid lifted the broken magnifying glass up to further inspect the damage. It didn't appear as though the lens had been shattered... it was just missing. Maybe it had fallen out and could be popped back into place? He seemed to be thinking on that when he caught movement, just barely noticing it as he was looking at the empty, metal ring of the item not through it...

It was as he finally looked through it that he saw something... quite strange. His eyes got impossible wide as he found himself looking at something that looked like one of those strange chameleon lizards complete with the strange feet, the googly eyes, and the dancing motions when it walked... he lunged to his feet and took a half step toward it before he realized something else. The creature wasn't colored like any lizard he knew, not like any animal he knew... in fact if he had to guess he would say it was made out of glass.

He lowered the magnifying glass for a moment to inspect the item in his hand closely, the gears seeming to grind for a moment before it seemed to all fall together in his mind.

"Hey... wait a second..." The boy lifted up the item once more to watch as the lizard danced its way along, up onto a stuffed animal causing it to vanish before it continued along not seeming to realize yet that Ashton could see it.

Playing Detective: Wrap Up: Waking the Bear

Ashton lifted the hand not currently holding onto the wiggling lizard to rub the back of it against his light blinded eyes. He felt a bit dizzy from the flash and his eyes were watering a bit but... as he opened them up he found himself standing in the middle of his room and much to his surprise everything was back in order where it should be. His lamp, his dresser, his toys, his clothing... it was all back as though it had never vanished on him in the first place. He looked down at the lizard he was holding by the tail before shifting it and letting it stand on his hand instead, "Sorry... for holding you like that." He told it.

The large googly eyes of the creature starred up at him for only a moment before it set to dancing up his arm, back to doing normal lizard things but nothing it was touching disappeared. It seemed that the enchantment... or whatever it was, that caused the lizard to be able to steal things was done. He looked down at the magnifying glass for a long moment, looked through it cautiously, but for the moment everything remained where it was.

"That was... a strange game, Mr Lizard." He told the creature before he moved over to the Detective Kit and set to putting everything away. He was kind of tired... he should see about putting this away and getting himself a nap he thought to himself. He looked at the lizard that was sitting on his shoulder now and tilted his head to the side, "I wonder what I should do with you... what do lizards like you eat?" He should probably ask his Father...

He and the Lizard met gazes for a moment before he picked up the bag that contained all of the Detective items and put it up on a shelf with some of his other toys before leaving his room to head down the hallway to where his father slept, curled up on the couch. When he was sleeping like this, when his features were relaxed, he didn't look all that scary like he could be when he was arguing with random people on the streets that made him angry. He chewed on his lower lip before he reached his hands up, giving the man a careful shake.

Crevan gave a sound much like a growl as he was shaken, eyes slowly opening and he found two sets of wide eyes starring down at him, "Huh...? What is it, Ashton?" He asked in a grumbling voice.

"Dad... umm... what do lizards eat?" He asked.

The man looked rather confused for a long moment, as though he were trying to process why Ashton had woken him up to ask him a question like that. It was then that it sank in that the second set of eyes starring at him belonged to a... chameleon...? He sat up slowly as he looked down at the pair that were standing there in front of him before giving a groan, "Ashton... where did you find that?"

The boy gave a happy smile as he crawled up into his Father's lap, "It was in my room! Can I keep him? I promise he won't make anything else disappear!" He said, though he wasn't quite sure that he could keep that promise given the fact that the lizard had a mind of its own and it might cause things to vanish if the mood struck it. At the same time he knew that assuring his father of such a thing would be the best way to go about getting to keep the animal even if it weren't true.

Crevan starred at the lizard for a long moment, watching as it looked about in arbitrary directions with its very strange eyes, "Ahh... We should probably go to a pet store first and see what all it needs." He said, biasing the entire part about the lizard making things disappear... he was pretty certain after all that it was just some strange game that Ashton was playing while he'd napped, he got a Detective Kit after all and no better way to play with it then playing that the lizard was the thief and he was the detective.

"I will call over to Kyata and tell him and Roll that we are heading out of the house, go find your shoes."

Ashton nodded, "Come on Mr. Lizard! Let's go find shoes!" He said, sliding down from his father's lap and rushed off to find his shoes.

Crevan gave a shake of his head, "Odd, odd child..." But still his oddness was vastly superior to Roll's teenage hormones he thought to himself as he rose to his feet and set to getting ready himself.

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