[Meanwhile, Kaede bikes home through the rain. That can't be fun. Nanami's sitting behind the counter, head propped up by her hand, looking bored. Guess it's been a slow day.] * Kaede takes off his coat and wipes his feet at the door, blowing out a breath. * Kaede does that. [Nanami waves. "Hey bro. Take the counter?"] * Kaede rubs his hands. "Yeah, I guess. Awful weather out there." He walks towards the counter. "Pretty slow I take it." [She nods as she gets up. "Must be the rain. Too bad I've got to go grocery shopping, huh?" She grabs her raincoat from a convenient wall (so convenient!) and puts it on.] * Kaede frowns. "Sure you don't want me to go out for you? I'm already soaked..." [She nods. "It's ok, I'm tired of sitting behind the counter all day."] * Kaede nods and hangs his coat up. "Understood. You've got your umbrella?" [She picks one up at the door!] ["See ya later," she says as she heads out.] * Kaede nods and goes behind the counter, checking the register for any sales today. [Two! Huzzah!] * Kaede shrugs. Well better than nothing. He settles down for a long day himself. [Time sloooooooowly passes.] * Kaede occupies himself like any self respecting upcoming man does at work. He takes out his laptop and surfs the web. ( Meanwhile the GM attepts to come up with an encounter. ) [An orc attacks!] ( No, wait. ) (An Irritating Series of Random Encounters Appear!) [Tenjirou comes in to get his bike fixed!] ( Nah. Hm ) ( Gimme an awareness check ) ( And you missed it. orz ) (If you want me to succeed at something so bad, why bother making me roll? >.>) ( 'Cause ) [Kaede's laptop shuts off suddenly.] [Plus the lights go out!] * Kaede looks up and sighs a bit. "Wonderful." He goes to find the flashlight. [While rummaging around behind the counter, Kaede hears the door suddenly thrown open.] (Like forcefully?) ( Yep ) ( But Kaede's behind the counter, so! ) * Kaede gets down a little lower as he pulls out the flashlight, eyes wide in startlement (if that's a word). After he calms himself a bit, he maneuvers himself to look around the corner. ( Gimme another awareness roll! ) [Nothing unusual out there at all!] * Kaede shakes his head and just waits for someone to speak up then. [Still nothing happens. Though Kaede does hear some heavy breathing from the front of the store. But it's too dark to make anything out.] * Kaede feels along the edge of the wall for a light socket. [Kaede finds one!] * Kaede first takes out his cell and looks at it. Calling would be bad right now but he wants to try a text message at least. [It don't work!] * Kaede closes his eyes. He knew it wouldn't. * Kaede instead concentrates on putting his energy into the light socket. He might get to see someone for a second. And at the very least, it might startle them. (Can he just try to get the back lights on?) (Ones closest to the door.) [Just as Kaede tries to do that.... The lights come back on! He can hear his computer booting up, too.] * Kaede blinks and stares at his hands. They didn't do anything. He looks over towards the door. [It's not hard to spot what's out of place: There's a girl lying unconscious next to the left wall of the store. She's rather plain looking. Also soaked. And since Kaede's involved, we'll make her half naked, too. It's a little hard to tell, though, since she's covered in tattoos.] * Kaede stares. "Well that's great." He goes to get his coat to cover her while dialing up Katie. (I dialed first, dammit!) (I was waiting on description!) [As luck would happen, Akemi walks in just then. "Hi Kaede! I... Oh my!"] [Also, Kaede gets a busy signal.] * Kaede sighs into the phone. "Wonderful." He then looks up as if noticing Akemi for the first time. "Errm. Hi. You know anything about first aid or something?" * Kaede hangs up. Will try again later. [Akemi walks over. "A little bit. What'd you do to her?"] * Kaede almost shrieks out, "Nothing!" He then calms down. "Nothing. She just...walked in here I guess. There was a field a moment ago..." [Akemi blinks. "There was? I must have just missed it!"] [Akemi is, for the record, wearing a low-cut pink dress and carrying a violet umbrella.] Yeah, I guess so. At least help me get her to somewhere more comfortable than the floor. [Akemi grins as she moves to help. "Like your bed? Kaede, you sly fox."] * Kaede goes to get her legs. Because he's assuming by "half naked" it means her top is missing. ( Right, she's wearing a long skirt. ) * Kaede snorts. "No. Nanami's bed. She'd probably freak if she was in a guys room." And aren't you worried about getting sick at all? [In actuality, it seems parts of her shirt remain, too, it was tucked into her skirt before it got torn to shreds by something.] [Akemi blinks. "Worried about me? That's sweet. But I haven't been sick since I had the chicken pox."] [Akemi and Kaede pick up the girl. And then Kaede's phone rings!] * Kaede sighs. "Great timing." He tries to shift his position to pick up his phone and cradle it against his shoulder. "Hello?" ( Gimme a body roll! ) (Ha. No.) [In his haste, Kaede drops one of Yuki's legs. Ow.] (Yay. She has a name now!) ( Oops. I said her name. Well, it's obvious who it is. :P ) * Kaede winces and tries to pick up the leg once he's situated. ( Gimme a body roll! ) (It is?) ( Maybe not to Kaede ) ( But to the players it should be :P ) [When he crouches to pick up Yuki's leg, Kaede drops his cell phone. Akemi shakes her head. "Just call back."]] * Kaede calls across to Akemi. "I was going to!" He mutters back into the phone. "I'll call you back in a bit. We've got a situation here." [She snickers. "Or you can tell them you're carrying a half-naked girl to bed."] * Kaede crouches down to flick it off and regrips Yuki's legs. "Ready?" [Akemi nods.] * Kaede eyes Akemi dryly. "Cute. Are you destined to walk in on me in these situations?" * Kaede starts carrying the girl towards the stairs. [She giggles. "You'd be lost without me. Come on, one, two, three!"] ( Kaede moves before Akemi finishes counting and the girl gets torn in half! Oh noes! :( ) (Sweet! That makes her easier to carry.) [They carry her up the stairs and to Nanami's room.] * Kaede clears a spot on Nanami's bed and sets her carefully down on it. [Akemi does, too. "Hope Nanami doesn't mind her sheets getting soaked."] * Kaede sighs. "I'll get her some new ones before she has to go to bed." He rubs the back of his neck. "Am I just a magnet for weird girls or what?" ["Hey! I'm not weird!"] (Actually, he's supposed to have a "Tell me the truth, Akemi." before that Am. I just typed too fast.) [Akemi looks the girl over. "Well, I don't think she's hurt. Looks like she just collapsed from exhaustion."] * Kaede lets out a deep breath. "No, you're not. In fact, you're probably the most normal girl out of the ones I know." ["That being the case..." She grins. "Tell me what happened."] ( Poor Kaede. ) ( Poor, poor Kaede. ) ( Akemi and Sarah would get along real well, though. o/~ ) I don't know. One second I was working the counter. The lights went out, phone wouldn't work. I couldn't see a thing. I hear this ragged breathing. Next thing I know... * Kaede gestures to the girl on the bed. "She was laying on the floor once the lights came back on." ["Ohh... That's not nearly as scandalous as I hoped."] * Kaede eyes Akemi. "I'm so sorry to disappoint. I'm just lucky it was you and not Remi walking in on me. She'd kill me. And I'm not even interested in her anymore." ["Really? Poor Remi. It's not even her fault, you know."] ( I'll be ending here soon, too. ) * Kaede sighs. "Yeah. I know..." [Now, in fact! End!]