House Hunting [Active]

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Character(s): Rikku, Rakka, anybody else want in?
Content: Rikku and Rakka go searching for a hideout.
Setting: H6-ish somewhere
Time: Afternoon
Warnings: none

Once they got a ways from the main road, the foot traffic became a lot more sparse than the bustling crowds up around the train station. That was good, of course. After all, what kind of hideout would it be if people kept stumbling over it all the time? Something convenient but still out of the way was your best bet, pretty much. And naturally it had to be unoccupied, and it'd be nice if it was already clean so they didn't have to fix it up...

Well, let it not be said that she didn't have standards.

Rikku floated along the sidewalk a little ahead of Rakka, looking around for a suitable place; it probably would have been easier later in the day, when people would have lights on, but she didn't really feel like waiting that long. As it was, she peeked discreetly through just about every window she flew past, and found most of the windows occupied - enough to assume the ones connected to them were occupied, too, at least. "C'mon, there can't be people living in all these houses," she huffed after a while.

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"Why would the houses be built if nobody needed it?" Rakka asked.

It made sense to her: every place in Glie, as far as Rakka knew, was occupied. Even the abandoned school that the haibane used as their home was used by them. It didn't seem that impossible to Rakka that there weren't any abandoned houses.

But this place was far larger than Glie, so it seemed like there could have been some place nobody used anymore. And it was the way of the haibane to use that which humans didn't need.

She peered uncertainly into windows as she walked, feeling a little self-conscious as she did so; she didn't want to invade anyone's privacy.

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Rakka smiled at the idea of houses popping up like mushrooms. It really would be convenient. The thought was derailed as Rikku pointed out a house. Rakka hurried over to peer into the window alongside the little fairy.

Rakka had a similar view of places as Rikku, having lived previously in an abandoned boarding school. A little cleanup and some decorations and it would be very nice. She smiled.

"I like it," she said. "Let's go in and look around!"

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Peering around at the house, Rakka knew it would take some cleaning up. But that didn't matter--nothing that could be had for free was going to be in perfect condition, and she was used to dealing with used things.

Rakka spun to face Rikku when she heard her friend gasp, and then drew a sharp breath herself. She had never seen an animal like that before, glowing and snowy white like that. Could it speak?

"H...Hello? We're sorry for... Barging in. Is this your house?"

She felt a little silly, but she had spoken to a meerkat before; it was better to be polite, after all.

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"Maybe," Rakka said, and was suddenly reminded of the cat Kuu had played with back in Glie. This was a lot bigger, though. "It would have to be a pretty big fish, though."

And where were they going to get that? She hoped the animal wouldn't attack them; Rakka had no way of defending herself.

Maybe this was why so many of the people here seemed to have powers of some sort? Rakka hoped her lack of them wouldn't end up getting her or anyone close to her injured.

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Rakka took a few cautious steps forward, trying not to startle or anger it. She peered at the creature, circling it a bit.

"I don't see a collar..." Rakka said, head tilted.

It would be a shame to force the poor dear out of its home just so they could live there. Surely this place was large enough for them to live alongside it?

((Oh god, Rikku and Rakka with a pet lumen. XD))

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"Bob?" Rakka echoed, blinking at the cat. "But what if it's a girl?"

Rakka was just as willing to keep the glowing cat around as Rikku was. She couldn't remember having a pet before, but she thought it would be fun. And something that large could scare off intruders!

She cried out as the lumen began to scratch up the sofa, but seeing the already rather tattered condition of it, she did nothing else to attempt to stop it.

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"I wonder if this place has a pet store," Rakka wondered, while also considering just how they were going to train a giant cat to do anything.

Still, she'd always wanted a pet.

"Maybe we could let him keep the couch, and just get a new one for us to use?" It didn't seem fair to take the couch from him; he had it first, after all. And there was a lot of room.