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[marmoron]

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[this message is posted to the network at around 1AM on december 3rd.]

HEY. STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS.
have any of you seen james? dude was supposed to go out on an errand for you guys and he hasn't come back yet. pretty unlike him to decide to camp out on the alps at night for shits and giggles. might wanna do a search party for your vice president. also has anyone seen ana? she's not responding to my messages either.


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[alternatively for anyone who happens to be in the aube dorm, enjoy the loud ruckus keith is causing by slamming the door open and closed. tagging along with him are a sleepy glowing pupper and an angry looking toad perched on his shoulder. he has one of james' shirts in his hand which he's holding out for cosmo to sniff.]

C'mon buddy. Let's go find him.

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[marmoron]

[that at least gets a pause. he looks over his shoulder quickly.]

My roommate was supposed to be back today, but he isn't responding to my messages.

[a beat.]

Did someone else go missing from this floor?

[bolderfell]

They turned back up after about a day, but it was like they didn't even know they were gone.

[There are only so many people on the fourth floor, and how many of them are girls? Therion's not gonna out his bro Jolyne like that.]

Thought it was weird, so I've been checking up here now and then.

[marmoron]

[his eyes narrow, considering.]

Okay. I'm not the most social person around here so I wouldn't have noticed if someone was just gone for a day. Who was this?

[meanwhile the glowing pupper is just gonna inch towards therion to see if the dude will give ear scratches. might as well, considering they've all stopped moving for now.]

[bolderfell]

[Haha, no? No. Therion edges away from the alien sparkledog. Good boy. Stay. Away, that is.]

I'd rather not say. You know, just in case it is something completely innocuous and they just didn't want to tell me.

[marmoron]

[holy fuck, alien glowdog is so disappointed now?? he stops moving towards therion then looks back to keith all confused. this has literally never happened before?! mind you, keith's takeaway from this is that anyone who doesn't like this particular good boy is obviously not trustworthy... somehow. it's not biased at all.]

But you're suspicious enough about it that you're stalking the fourth floor now?

[raised eyebrow. meanwhile he gestures for cosmo to come back, which he does with droopy ears.]

[bolderfell]

[To be fair, Keith ain't wrong.]

You're suspicious enough that you're sneaking off in the dead of night to look for your roommate.

[If that was meant to sound defensive, though, it peters out quickly. They both have more important things to worry about, don't they?]

It's not like I want something to have happened. Just... [Therion glances away, fiddling with the drawstring of his hoodie.] ...Better safe than sorry.

[marmoron]

[there's a frown at that first remark. keith clearly looks as though he has a couple of words to say in response adn though the look doesn't go away entirely after therion's own tone de-escalates, he remains quiet for another moment.]

Okay. So what are you most worried about?

[he'll resume going down the stairs with the doggo and glowing toad in tow.]

[bolderfell]

...That's part of the problem. Don't think I know enough to guess, with everything that happens here.

[He used to be but a simple thief. The magical possibilities are way beyond him.]

It's just that I've seen, when people get badly hurt, sometimes they... forget. Something goes wrong so horribly, they just can't even hold it in their heads for a while.