wavewalker | SEVEN // Sleuthing AND pirating

A: PHONE: AFTERNOON

Grady- Olney- whoever he was- is dead. I know some of you won't be surprised by the news. It was broadcast to the town at large, after all. Others have likely mentioned it as well.

He was found floating in the pool at the recreation center- which some of likely already know as well. Half of his face had been blown off, but he was still alive- for all intents and purposes. I gather he wasn't allowed to die. I wasn't the first person to run across him, and I doubt I was the last.

He wouldn't tell me anything, but did he share anything with anyone else? Anything at all.

B: ACTION: 754 PARTRIDGE DRIVE

[ Anyone in the vicinity of 754 Partridge Drive will notice something a little strange in the backyard. Ian got a regain in the mail, you see, and when he opened the package he got, this suddenly sprouted from the top of the doghouse.

Ian can be seen traveling up and down the mast all day, for various reasons. At one point he travels up there with a large wad of black cloth. A little tinkering, and soon there's a flag flying proud, peeking over the top of the house. ]

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[Mika got lost, a sadly common occurrence without her sense of smell.]

Ian, what the blazes are you doing up there?

[ she caught him in the middle of trying to hang his flag. He looks down and waves ]

What does it look like I'm doing?

Hanging a flag on a mast that popped out of your dog house?

That's what I'm doing. Care to join me?

[Her tail would be wagging if she had it.]

Sure, but I dunno what I could do.

You can just come up and enjoy the view. I'm almost done here, anyway.

Okay.

[She trots on over, then hesitates, looking incredibly anxious. Shifting her weight from one foot to the other, she makes a quiet sound of distress.]

Um, Ian? I have a problem with heights.

[She wants to come up and look, what do!]

... How much of a problem? I could probably carry you up.

Like, I lock up and kind of panic?

[Now she looks embarrassed and like she wants to hide behind something.]

But I'm really heavy...

Just... give me a moment.

[ he finishes hanging his flag, and makes his way down the rigging with the ease of long years of practice ]

I may be a skinny little runt, but I'm still a Raptori. I'm stronger than I look.

Now, are you sure you want to go up?

You're a what?

[She cocks her head, making a confused sound in the back of her throat.]

I do, I just have problems with the idea of falling. And I wasn't joking when I said I was heavy.