Breaking glass all morning.
“Not a shocking combination.” Victor grumped crossing his arms upset they were letting this kid follow them around.
Laverne on the other hand kept telling him, “Stop being a grouch. She’s just a kid. She doesn’t know any better and she’s clearly not from around here. Maybe she needs a little help is all? Maybe she’s lost?”
Hugo would interrupt with, “Or we could break glass too? Who’s in?” He was no help at all.
Bastien side eyed her when she said she was breaking glass in someone’s workshop and not just some old run down place like this. He had a workshop too. Okay so maybe his workshop was in a run down place just like this but it was still HIS workshop and he wouldn’t want anyone breaking his things.
“Well, of course you got banned. Workshops are for working. People work hard and you ruined their hard work. That’s not very nice. What’d you do it for? Did they do something to you first so they deserved it?” He tried to be logical. Sometimes people deserve bad shit to happen to them and if you get banned over it then who cares.
But then she actually said it was an accident. She didn’t do it on purpose.
“She banned you over an accident? Well, that sucks.”
He looked back to make sure she closed the door which she did. Good move. He gave a little nod and kept moving. It’d be dark so he pulled his phone and turned on the flashlight to look around better. It was night time after all plus no electricity in this run down joint.
“I don’t like getting kicked out of places when I have accidents.” It happened a lot. Well, it happened a lot before he moved into Delta’s castle and she and Frank let him live in the dungeons. After that nobody kicked him out of places anymore. Knowing he’s was Delta’s Hunch had that effect on people.
Victor said she had a point about the surprising. She did sneak up on him and gave him a rather big start.
“Okay. I’ll give you that one. You are very good at surprising people. Maybe you do have some sneakery skills. They’re just a little messy. I think the kind of surprising you do is better left for surprise parties, like birthdays, not for trespassing.”
“That’s okay. I get things mixed up sometimes too.”
He had years more practice at covering it up and faking it when he flubbed. He wasn’t sure she could cover up a flub that loud and startling though.
Then she asked what they were looking for and Laverne looked at Bastien and said, “They?” Were they a team now? He had to give this a moment’s thought. He was going to have to break it down to her. On one hand he felt sorry for her because it sucked and he knew what it was like to be misunderstood and screw up and get kicked out of places and feel like you have to make up for things all the time. On the other hand he wasn’t sure he wanted her in his workshop messing things up. On yet another hand his workshop was there because he was making something for the kiddos of Nola. God damn. The street kids mostly, but any kids. Who was this kid?
“Well, here’s the thing. WE- as in WE-” and he motions in a circle referencing him and his friends, not Nory. The problem was she couldn’t see them. He was a little off kilter right now forgetting this so it’d seem like he was referencing him and Nory.
“WE are looking for scraps that might be useful as parts in the carrousel I’m building. The real jackpot houses are the ones that haven’t been salvaged yet and still have piping. I use it for the horse’s poles. So I look in the walls.”
— 🐾 IT WASN’T THE ONLY PLACE NORY WAS banned from. No matter how hard Nory tries telling her Pa she’s old enough to do the cooking, but Dr. Horace won’t listen. Just because she nearly burned down there old house when she put her socks in the toaster ONE t i m e. What can she say? She really wanted toasty socks. Dr. Horace && Isla won’t let her near the washing machine, which makes no sense. Fine! She didn’t know the difference between detergent && dawn soap, accidently using to much dawn soap && turning the laundry room into a bubble bath, but also, only ONE t i m e.
Chuck E. Cheese, Olive Garden, Burger King, Hoo-Ha Owl's Pizzamatronic Jamboree, Funso's Fun Zone && McDonalds. Banned for life. Again, it was only ONE t i m e. Nory didn’t mean to do what she does, she’s just accident prone! It wasn’t like she decided to be a koat for ill intentions and destroy her cousin’s work, it’s just chasing mosquito’s as a koat was just so much fun! Scolded. “What? No!” No. No. No. No. Shaking her head. Isla didn’t deserve it. Sighing. “I chased a mosquito — “ she said as she finished ‘as a koat’ in her head so she wasn’t lying to them she just wasn’t expressing everything.
“ — && I had an accident. Which lead to one thing to another && before you know it I’m here! I know what I did was bad. Really bad. I screwed up big time but I’m trying to make it better. Do you know how hard it is to find glass! It’s a lot harder then it looks.” Finally taking a breath. Learning that animals were not meant to be in the workshop. Not now. Not ever. She was to busy realizing it was night time to notice she missed the nod of approval. Nory didn’t realize it was so dark outside! Which made it even darker inside. Not that she was bothered by it.
Nory used her sense of smell, && her instincts to keep her grounded. The animal bits && parts of her. Looking down she saw dust! She also saw two sets of footprints! Following the bigger one they lead her to Crime Boss! ‘Found you!’ She thought as she was such a good dust detective. Detective Nory, terrible at finding glass but very good at finding Crime Boss! The other set of prints in the dust was certainly rodent, she would know, as it looked it was swallowed by the abyss of darkness that loomed heavily in the house. Childishly she would have continued following them,
being the best detective in the tri-state area but Nory paused in her tracks. “I know the feeling,” Nory said, && then gets a sad look in her eyes. It wasn’t a good one. Not one Nory really got used too. Only she perked up fast! Crime Boss gave her credit. Which made her smile, which glowed on her facial features. Regardless of a little messy, && misplaced scenario wise it was still a credit. A compliment. Nory felt like she should turn into a peacock! The swelling of pride bursting inside her chest. But technically, only males are peacocks. Females are peahens && together, they are called peafowl.
Yet somehow she could still turn herself into a peacock. Holding her tail feathers from sheer excitement, only the fabulous feathers of a peacock are not tail feathers at all. Those long feathers are the male’s tail c o v e r t s that are basically feathers that cover the base of the tail. Peacocks are fun! Super obsessed with Peacocks for the 5 seconds Nory was complimented by Crime Boss. It got her thinking. “I guess peacocks wouldn’t make very good trespassers.” Useless. Random. Giggling. “Have you ever seen a peacock or a peahen before? They are loud.” The suddenness bursting out of her.
Nory was happy && sad at the same time. She gets things mixed up all the time too. If it’s not Fluxing, it’s something else. Sad that she couldn’t, but happy that she wasn’t the only one. Of course, they were very different, but it felt good hearing it. The kind of good that makes it ok for now. As if everything was going to be ok. Things were going to work out, && not always in the way she wanted them too. In a way Nory could handle. Crime Boss was really relatable, she chose a good Crime Boss! Nory felt very lucky to have met Crime Boss. He was all Boss && Crime && relatable.
Nory saw the whole breaking it down bit Crime Boss was doing but Nory didn’t fully understand it quite so well. She might have even realized when he made his circle it meant her, in the kind of indirect way, as there was a rodent print in his circle. So she was that rodent print. She was meant to find that rodent as Detective Nory, battle it to the death, && be destined to take it’s place in the inner circle if she remembers. So the relevance of her was more spiritual && physical like destiny! Destiny was calling.
Regardless of it all Nory referenced herself in. Yet Nory didn’t find carrousel’s all to fun && cool. She almost wanted to ask if there was going to be a peacock! Oooo. Maybe Crime Boss will be the one to finally put an light show! ‘Stare into the fire beams. You get fire beamed! You get fire beamed!! Pew. Pew. Pew. All the fire beams!’ Nory thought to herself. The dream of laser fire beams of light shooting out a Carousel sounded so cool! Who doesn’t like being blinded by the light! Now she was getting hyped up, the imagination could do that. Seeing the possibilities, yet peacocks where not going to be helpful.
No. Peacocks were not quite right for the job. Then what was right for the job? What animal could go into walls, && destruct metal? Detective Nory had to think for a moment. Until it became obvious! Rat-a-tat-Rat! Not only will she be able to use her detective skills to get in Crime Boss’s inner circle if she finds the culprit. Then again, she could always say that was her rodent print? Could Crime Boss tell the difference between Nory-rodent or regular rodent? “I’ll take the kitchen!” Nory blurted so fast && before Crime Boss could talk. Calling dips.
There were so many cool things about Rats! The Norway Rat did not originate in Norway. Rats have an incredibly strong sense of smell. They can chew through metal. Softer metals like aluminum sheeting, lead, copper, iron, && gold. It was easy for her to get into the pipes through the kitchen sink. AFTER she takes the sharp b l a d e s things in the dispenser out. . . so she doesn’t die. The horror! Nory still has nightmares of almost being obliviated by a sink. Bouncing off in the gapping abyss of darkness it was certain she hit, fell, && almost fell through the floor on the way.
Nory’s hip hit an wooden object as a huge hallow THUNK with an “o w.” A cluttering sound of tripping over herself as she wasn’t picking up her feet enough after she hit her hip with an “I’m ok!” Only she disturbed the dust, as Bastian could hear the fits of her sneezing repeatedly. In her moment of sneezing as she kept walking with one arm out aimless. Nory also had found a few bad rotted floor boards as there was the sound of wood splitting && a squeak. “Careful it’s a bit rotted to the left!” It would have been easier to navigate with a light but that would have ruined the fun.
Careful not to speak to loud of course! They were on a mission, but she was loud enough for them to hear her. Not taking Nory long to find the kitchen. Small but spacious. Rotted && old. She began opening cabinets. . . well the ones that didn’t look like they were going to pop out of place anyway. Finding GLASS cups as Nory made the glass do the c h i n k-c l i n k sound first just randomly until she began to do more Mario open theme CHINK-c l i n k i n g. [ X ]. Only it might have not sounded like it on Bastien's side as she did that for about 1 minute. Trying to be patient.
The hardest part was being patient. Nory could help! She was good at being helpful. She could get metal too. Only she was embarrassed of herself, as she honestly listened to the sounds of the other’s footsteps. Calculated the distance of each other. Ignoring the cups as she’d walk carefully over to the sink. As there was natural night light spilling through the sludge. Taking the edge of her shirt dabbing her irritated eyes from the dust a bit as well. ‘Come on. Don’t come this way Crime Boss.’ She’d thought to herself as being patient was the worse.
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