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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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.

I'm a Raptori. No one's heard of us, so don't worry about it.

We're built stronger than humans, honest. I can carry you.

So what's a Raptori, then?

[Her head cocks to the opposite side, but she still looks a little worried.]

Well if you're sure...

Do you have... ah, what's the word? Someone mentioned it to me before.

Oh! Dinosaurs. Do you have dinosaurs where you're from?

We did, millions of years ago.

Let me guess, you're kind of like a velociraptor only not?

We just call them Old Ones where I'm from, but yes. They're distant relatives.

That is so bizarre, you look more like a tiger to me.

Do I really? I've been called "Gecko" before, but I think that has to do more with my coloring.

[She huffs a small laugh.]

It's the stripes and the ears, I think.

I guess I can see it. Maybe that's why they put me in a house with Cyuss. We match.

A little bit, yeah. Makes me wonder if that's why they had me in the same house with Annie now that you mention it.

Annie? I don't think I know her.

Fluffy, curly brown hair, big green eyes. She's a werewolf.

Is that what you are, too?

No. [She shakes her head.]

I'm just a wolf that has the great misfortune to look like a human.

I guess Mayfield really does take all types.

Sounds like it, especially if they have people who sound like they're straight out of mythology, comic books and video games.

... You lost me at com-- whatever books.

Comic books. They're books that are mostly illustrations with a little bit of text for narration or speech. I'll see if I can find some to show you. They can be really over the top.

They sound entertaining at least.

... You know, this isn't getting you up there. [ he jerks his head, indicating the crow's nest ]

They are, when they don't keep rewriting the same stories every ten years.

[Uwaa! Caught! Mika makes a startled sound, balking at the height of the mast.]