text | un: kovacs

[kovach]

[ after attempting to follow some small footprints from the dining room, kovacs briefly hears some strange and suspicious laughter that echoes out for only a short time before it's gone.

— the fuck? ]

Has anyone heard some creepy fucking kids giggling in the hallways?

Or seen some tiny feet trailing around?

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text. » un: rhysand

[business]

For reference, what's your shoe size?

[kovach]

I don't know. Big.

[ it's not his actual body, so it's not like he's measured his foot. ]

Much bigger than these prints.

[business]

Aw, shoot. There goes my theory about you following your own trail.

How little is little then?

[kovach]

Yeah, surprise, I'm not an idiot.

[ to further prove his point, he switches to a video feed, so he can actually show his findings, his own foot standing near the prints to make the comparison, with the prints bearing a similar size to whatever had been found in the kitchen. ]

[business]

It's always a good thing to note.

( the footprints rhys had followed have long since been disturbed, but he has an effortlessly perfect memory — he argues internally with himself for a moment before ultimately deciding, )

I am decently confident those are identical to some prints I'd followed in the kitchen. They lead me to the sleeping Princess.
Where did you say you found those?

[kovach]

[ so it's likely a match if this guy's reliable enough in his memory. good to note. ]

Led out from the dining room into the hallway, but they didn't lead anywhere. Disappeared in the middle with nowhere to go. That's when and where the weird giggling happened.

Dining table was set for one, but there was a second seat at the table that looked like it'd been a few times since the first. Found some sort of clay head there. Like it broke off a toy or something. Maybe this princess of yours knows something about it.

[business]

That's. A little odd. The giggling, I mean. Maybe someone was laughing in their sleep? Or you've stumbled on a cluster of Brownies.

I can ask her about it. Honestly, she's very forthcoming in answering all our questions, so I'm sure she won't mind.

[kovach]

If she's willing to talk, would be worth asking.

Could be nothing but random giggling in empty air seems pretty fucking hard to ignore as nothing.