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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:09 pm
As much as she wanted to lay in bed and just think for a few hours, Claire wouldn't let herself do such a thing. First of all, it was a blatant waste of precious time. She had training to do for herself, for her pokemon, for herself - she couldn't waste the time she had in the early mornings. Secondly, she didn't want to think about last night nor the end result. It was too sad to think about, though hopefully it would be better for Lucas this way. She hoped so..
Claire had risen at the wonderfully early time of 5:30am, had worked out in the gym and focused on her left arm, had thereafter trained Zeus and Odette for an hour, and then went for a swim. Immediately after that she had showered, grabbed some breakfast despite not being that hungry, and finally found herself in front of her door. She stared at it for a few moments before opening it with a sigh, dropping a bag of training supplies and some gym clothes in a corner near her dresser. A hand reached up to run her fingers through her hair as her gaze was caught by the bottom drawer that contained her shoebox and, by property of association, the letter to Lucas that Luke had written the night before. Arceus, she didn't have time to stand around, thinking... With a sigh, both hands were raised to run all ten fingers through her hair and stopped to link at the back of her head, succeeding in pulling most of her hair back as her gaze swept around the empty room...
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:09 am
The room was in fact empty to a cursory glance, but a more knowledgeable set of eyes would notice a few oddities: a bed sheet pulled from its place to the center of the room, a number of crumpled papers and such that had found their way out of wastebasket, a bathroom door left ajar. The dishevelment unified towards no goal; it was apparently random in its execution. The only clue to indicate the intruder's identity was the slight displacement of the floor vent.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:46 pm
Crap, her hair was still damp... She should've dried it better, oh we--
Wait a minute...
The sheet in the middle of the floor - her sheet - was the first thing she noticed, as well as the papers which she couldn't care less about. The bathroom door was noticed third - and after a scrutinizing look around the room to find where the perpetrator had entered her domain (that she was forced to share with Len), she finally noticed the displaced vent grating. Both of her pokemon were with her and Len wasn't crazy enough to do this, nor were her pokemon, so obviously it was an intruder. Immediate action was necessary.
She first knelt down and fixed the grate back onto the vent firmly so it wouldn't come off again, and then, after a quick but thorough scan of the bathroom, she closed the door. All potential exits blocked - check.
That done, she strode to the middle of the room and lifted up the sheet, displacing the crumpled and possibly chewed pieces of paper in the process, to see if anything was hiding there.
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:50 pm
Beneath the sheet was an emptied cardboard toilet paper tube, the paper itself conspicuously missing.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:53 pm
Her eyes narrowed suspiciously as she stared at the empty roll - there hadn't been an empty roll in the bathroom garbage bin when she'd left earlier this morning - and folded the sheet. Well, not so much 'folded' as 'crumpled it into the smallest, messiest ball possible'. She deposited the bundle of wrinkled fabric onto her bed - then as an afterthought smoothed out all the blankets and looked behind the pillows to make sure nothing was hiding under the little bumps and things - then knelt down and peered under the bed.
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:54 pm
Claire, on investigating under the bed, would quickly learn where all of the paper had gone. A veritable wall of it had been stuffed into the dark space.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:58 pm
She pursed her lips a moment before releasing a slow sigh. Such a mess... She didn't need this today. This invader would be found and dealt with as soon as possible. And then she would bolt the stupid vent to the wall to avoid anything of the sort happening ever again. Ever. With that thought in mind she lay down on her side in order to reach the mass of now useless toilet paper and pulled two large fistfuls of the stuff away from the soft fortress.
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:01 pm
Beyond the soft paper, which was increasingly shredded the more she pulled out, Claire would find a number of Lennyka's books laying askew in the shadows.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:03 pm
Upon seeing several of her roommate's books under her bed, she sighed and her head flopped onto the floor. "s**t.." Just what she needed. If any of those books were damaged even slightly... Ugh. She would be dead meat. With another sigh she pulled out the shredded toilet paper and shoved it into the garbage bin, nearly filling the small receptacle to the brim before she leaned back down and reached for the books to pull them out as well and put them back - hopefully Len would never notice...
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:04 pm
One of the books pulled back when Claire attempted to remove it.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:06 pm
"What the..?" She frowned, pulling the other books out and sliding them off to the side before pulling at the book that did not want to be removed. What sort of pokemon had gotten in here...?
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:07 pm
The book was finally pulled loose, bringing the spray of a Sand Attack with it.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:09 pm
The book gave way and she tilted it up to see which it was - and if it had bite marks on it (oh Arceus she'd be in so much trouble) - when -- "Ack!!" Her eyes shut tightly and she turned her head, getting plenty of dust and other crap stuck to her slightly damp hair. Another heavy sigh - she'd just washed it not even an hour ago...
That book, however, was slid over to join the others and Claire frowned at the underside of her bed, prepared to move if another Sand Attack was aimed for her face. What the heck was this?!
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:12 pm
The book had a few small tears on the spine from where something sank small teeth into it for a better grip but was by and large undamaged.
There was a small sound, something like a "vuii," accompanied by a quick movement from the center of the bed to one of the far corners.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:14 pm
"s**t," she repeated with a frown, noticing the marks on the book. Man, she was in for it now...
The noise caught her attention though and she scooted closer to the corner. "Come on," she grunted as she half-crawled on her stomach, "I don't want to have to move my bed.." Actually, she wasn't even sure if she could move her bed... Oh well, she'd try it in a minute or two. She pursed her lips again and grabbed at the rest of the shredded toilet paper so she could actually see what this intruder was.
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