Location: Smooth Moves Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 4a.m. Closed to @davisadele
It was easy to gain access to Jairus’ apartment: Cassiel already had the key for their regular sparring sessions and a decent enough relationship with the landlord. Getting into Smooth Moves was slightly harder; Jairus had hidden the extra set of keys and access codes pretty well. An inability to sleep gave Cassiel plenty of time to carefully sort through their old friend’s belongings with only a few moments of pause to swallow back tears.
It was still dark out--or dark out again, Cassiel didn’t know, having lost track of time--by the time they parked their bike outside of the smoothie shop. Cassiel let themself in, flicking on the lights as they went, vigilant for a security panel to disable the alarm before authorities were alerted. They found it, but something was off: the code had already been input, disabling the alarm. Either Jairus was lazy about closing up or someone was already here.
“Hello? Is someone here?” Their hand strayed toward their hip, where a knife lay concealed under their shirt.