Inque | 001

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Characters: Inque and all you lovely peoples.
Location: Various rooftops. Standard superhero/villain fare.
Time: Night.
Style: Continuous thread. (e.g.: comments forum-style, reply to one another)
Status: Closed for now! Open to more people if the location changes. Stay tuned!

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If it is quiet and abandoned that she wants, Inque may find it soon enough in a certain part of the area. It is a neighborhood slightly more detached from the rest. A lot of buildings look run-down, and seem to be warehouses of some sort.

With the exception of one.

Besides it's rather... eccentric appearance, out in the large yard, there is a very large pen. About 17 large birds are inside. As it's night, the Chocobos are mostly sleeping... Unfortunately, their last 'owner' has made them rather, ah..

Let's say 'overly cautious'.

So when Inque comes sneaking over, thanks to the tell-tale fairy, one bird realizes something is going bump in the night. One awake bird wakes up five more. Eventually, they're all in a state of nervousness, huddled together and making noises. For now, it's a low murmur, but the squawks will come eventually.

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Oh wonderful, a natural alarm system. And one with an apparent hair trigger at that.

While the large eye does narrow at the birds, Inque isn't going to do anything that might risk startling them. Well, that she thinks might startle them. She'd never seen something like this before in her life, and Gotham had been wonderfully devoid of most animal life anywhere but the zoo and your typical variety of housepets. None of which, it should be noted, was a giant bird...let alone a whole flock of the oddly colored creatures. Still, they were starting to make some noise, and she quickly slipped away from the edge of the roof to hide from view.

Of course, such an alarm system could be useful, if she could find another way into the building...but at the same time, she was willing to assume such a large menagerie of pets outside meant it probably wasn't unoccupied. Giant birds didn't just wander into the backyards of abandoned houses (or did they? Honestly she didn't know, but it sounded absurd enough to be unlikely). And she while she was

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Unfortunately, no. The birds get even more agitated. In this sense, 'agitated' translates to full out screeching panic. At least for the older Chocobo.

The sole inhabitant of the building- not speaking of the little shack on the property- had been waking up anyway. Cue the panicking birds, he's rushed to one of the second story windows. It jerks open, and Lea pokes his head out.

Because common sense is generally for people who are not Lea, so of course he calls out. "Hello? Is anyone out there?" Already, he's trying to crawl out of the window, apparently oblivious to the fact that he's on the second story.

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Like she'd answer. She is so not the type of amateur who blows their position by answering in what amounted to a slightly less pointless game of 'Marco Polo.' Of course, the boy's shouting was a remarkably timely warning someone was actually in the house. Ink melted down into a puddle and clung to the roof to avoid being seen, even losing the large white eye in the process.

The fairy, of course, still fluttered about overhead, ruining everything. She made a mental note to kill the accursed thing at the first opportunity. But with any luck, the nosy boy next door wouldn't notice and just fall and break his neck. Maybe then the house would be vacant, she could move in for a while, and everything would work itself out...

...yeah, and maybe the Batman was just an unusually spry 80 year old man.