Nightshift 36: F21-F30 Hallway
Falis was ready to go as soon as the doors unlocked. Spear tied across her back with a torn sheet for easy removal, three stakes hanging from the braided bandoleer about her waist and sword in hand, the bounty hunter's armory was back to where it had been before she'd fought the demons. The stakes were spaced out far enough that they wouldn't
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She frowned as she pulled out the drawers, seeing small box in one of them. Amada wouldn't be happy about it, but if Yukari did turn, there was nothing Falis could do about it other than kill her. With 'Danielle' gone, she couldn't use the much more efficient method of killing the master which would free the ones she'd turned. She did not want to ever see the look on the boy's face that would appear if that ended up being the case. As the princess held up the pretty pink bracelet from the box to the light to examine, she hoped that wouldn't be the case. Hopefully Yukari wouldn't turn. Kagura hadn't, so hopefully Yukari wouldn't as well.
The bracelet was pretty, but... it had pink stones on it. Why would anyone want to wear pink by choice? Sure, sometimes she had to wear pink when she was at the palace and had some function or other that Jodou was making her attend, but by choice? Hell no. And how did Yukari get something like this anyways? It looked kinda expensive. She put it back in the box and returned that to it's proper drawer, not wanting to mess anything up. She flipped open the journal and pages through it. Not much of a writer, it seemed. There were only a few errant doodles on the corner of a few pages, like she'd sat down to write something but her mind had wandered elsewhere. Or she couldn't find the right words. Whatever.
Moving on, she left the journal where it had been and poked around in the closet. Nothing of interest there.... wait a minute. In the corner, as if it was being hidden, was a box. A box labeled Kara Blenn. Now what might be in here?
Falis pulled the box out and set it on the floor. Kneeling down, she opened it to find clothes. It was only one set, a top and a pair of pants. There was a clattering sound as something small and rectangular fell out of the shirt and hit the floor, sliding across it. Tilting her head a bit, the bounty hunter dropped the shirt and picked the object up.
She blinked and furrowed her brow. What the hell was this thing? It was made of the same material a lot of stuff in this place was - some of that Old World substance - and it had all sorts of ridges on it. Oh... those were button-thingies and there were numbers and symbols on them. She turned it over curiously when there was a slight jingling sound and she found, hanging off the... whatever button-thingie it was a silver cat. It wasn't a real cat - it was too small and made of metal - but it was a cat... hanging off of a... thing with buttons that had numbers and you could push them... She pushed the buttons.
Nothing happened. She pushed them again. Still nothing happened. Falis scowled at the button-number-thingie and turned it over in her hands. Hey.. the back panel looked like it would come off, so Falis took it off. She was surprised when something even smaller and rectangular fell out into her hand. She peered at it and grinned when she saw the writing on it. So this was a battery, like the things in the flashlights, but it looked different. Different shapes... but still a battery. This meant that the button-number-thingie normally had fuel to run it like the flashlight. She was glad Namine had explained batteries to her. Maybe this battery wasn't working right. Leaning up, Falis grabbed the spare set of flashlight batteries from Yukari's desk and went about seeing if they fit into the button-number-thingie. Nope. They were too big. Damnit! Now she'd never find out what the button-number-thingie did. It wasn't like she could just ask Yukari what it did. That'd go over wonderfully.
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Falis snorted in amusement as she went about putting the button-number-thingie back together, feeling like the tiny cat was staring at her the whole time. “Oi! Don't you be giving me that look, cat,” she muttered to it. “I'm just doin' my job. It's not like I'm taking anything so why don't you give something else that look. Like the sleeve on this shirt,” she said, wrapping the button-number-thingie back up in the shirt it'd originally fallen out of. “There. See how you like it now,” she said as she put the clothes back into the box.
Once the box was securely back in it's hiding place in the closet, Falis cast another look around the room, making sure everything was back where it belonged, except for the stake. All looked good and she didn't have any other need to be in that room any longer. She drew her sword and clicked her flashlight off, waiting for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
'Kara Blenn.' 'Danielle.' Falis needed to go get Namine now. She'd have this contract finished tonight and then give Amada some free information. She had to admit it - she liked the kid. Maybe she really was going soft with the whole princess thing. Maybe not. With a careful peak out the door to see if anyone was watching, the bounty hunter slipped out of the room as quietly as she'd entered it.
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