foolishwren | 57. Action for the Violet City Pokemon Center

Current Location: Violet City Pokemon Center

57. Action for the Violet City Pokemon Center

_{[So some people in Violet City might have noticed something.]

[That something being the same blond girl who'd been hanging around the Pokemon Center during the day (and retiring to her hotel room at night) with a perpetually guilty expression... had continued hanging around the Pokemon Center with a perpetually guilty expression, but had also been growing increasingly exhausted-looking.]

[That worry she'd said she didn't have for her unconscious friend? ... Well, looks like something triggered it.]

[A couple days after the last transmission, she checked out of her hotel room and started staying in the Center more or less full-time, catching catnaps every so often but otherwise seemingly living off of caffeinated beverages and pure, concentrated force of will. Undoubtedly a few people have probably tried to confront her about this, but probably got either blown off, or an intense bloodshot stare until they quit.]

[... But her unexplained constant vigil apparently reached its peak around eleven o'clock on Saturday night. There's only so much weight one's eyelids could accumulate before they just went down and didn't come back up again. By the time midnight hits, anyone who happens to walk past and peep into the private room (one of many just beyond the lobby of your average Center, kept for anyone who might need to be spending the night due to illness or injury) that one unconscious Phoenix Wright happens to be residing in, they will see (in addition to the totally-zonked lawyer on the bed, surrounded by his loyal Pokemon (who... may in fact be crushing him, actually)... well, this.]}

_{[Coffee just didn't do it after awhile, apparently.]

[Nestled somewhere against that uncomfortable tangle of limbs that she's only able to contort herself into on account of not having hit her thirties yet, is an egg that's somewhere between charcoal-gray and midnight-blue, a little smaller than a football, with a shell that's.... cracked?]}

Pii-iip pii-iip pii-iip...

_{[An attentive listener in the doorway just might be able to catch a thin, tiny cheeping coming from the general direction of Heather's ill choice of bed. ... Good thing she's wedged into that shape too tightly to have much risk of shifting position and crushing whatever's hatching from that egg...]

[.... Buuuuuut maybe somebody ought to wake her up anyway.]}

_{[ooc: So yeah, thanks to a conversation with Dahlia, Heather's been pulling a stupid and trying to stay awake as much as possible. If your character's in the area and they're the type to notice and care (or maybe just be snarky about it), feel free to assume that they've had a (sadly unsuccessful) talk with Heather on the subject!]}

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_{[Livin' like a hobo: Heather knows how to do it right.]

[When the blanket is gently laid over her, she doesn't even stir at all, much less wake. She'd be wondering where the hell that blanket came from in the morning, though.]

[The egg would come out of her arms easily enough-- she wasn't holding onto it too tightly. But it would feel hot in his hands-- and there was definitely something moving inside the shell-- prodding and pecking at it from the inside.]

[Needless to say, it's... probably safer with Kaito than it is with Heather at the moment.]}

[Once the egg is removed and the blanket is draped over Heather's sleeping form, Kaito plops down onto the ground next to her back, holding said egg in his lap]

Oi oi, little guy... [He speaks softly, as to not wake Heather]

There's no way I can convince you to wait until she wakes up, is there?

_{[There's a steadily-increasing clicking noise from inside the egg-- as if to say 'No. Nope. I'm sick of sitting in here and I am coming out RIGHT NOW.' .... Of course, 'right now' is subjective, since it hasn't really been able to crack through the shell much yet. But whatever it is in there, oh boy is it TRYING.]

[And unlike Godzilla, it doesn't seem to have any intention of staying inside the egg.]}

Guess not...

[WELL THEN, while Heather sleeps, Kaito holds onto the egg and waits for it to hatch. He'll see to this first before he goes visit sleeping Crow]

_{[LOL NOPE.]

[And quite ironically, given what Kaito's here for... the first thing that comes poking through the shell of the egg is... a pale yellow BEAK. And the peeps are starting to faintly resemble some corvine croaks.]}

[hey wait... he thinks he knows this cry]

A Murkrow?

_{[YES INDEEDY.]

[And oh boy, isn't it just the ugliest little thing ever. Baby birds are kind of hideous. The croaky peeping grows louder now that there's a decent-sized hole in the egg, though. MOVE ASIDE, SHELL. THIS WORLD NEEDS ME IN IT IMMEDIATELY.]}

[resisting the urge to reach out and break the shell for him :x the bird needs to do it himself!]

_{[Oh, he'd do it for himself all right! THERE WAS NO STOPPING THIS BIRD. ... Okay except maybe five consecutive minutes of trying to break through. The thing WAS just a baby, after all. There's a brief peace as the the miniature battering ram inside the egg takes a little break. APPARENTLY, hatching was pretty hard work and no one had informed him.]}

[he places the egg on the ground in front of him and watches it hatch, siiilently encouraging it on]

_{[It takes awhile-- the little thing seems to need frequent breaks, but they never last long before it's back at work. Kaito might be stuck sitting there on the floor of that room for a fair bit of time, but at LONG last, the shell breaks enough for ... the ugliest little nekkid baby crow the world has ever seen to plop out onto the floor, squeaking triumphantly.]

[OH YEAH. WHO BUSTED OUT OF THIS EGG? THIS BADASS RIGHT HERE. YOU KNOW IT.]}

[ALL RIGHT BABY CROW-- wait. what's he supposed to do now]

Hey there, little guy! Er... [glances around and then sees Heather's bag, quickly digging through it for a blanket or a cloth or... something]

_{[He is so lucky that Claudy is too big to fit into that small bag anymore. Because otherwise he might have gotten a rather unpleasant surprise.]

[There are a couple of towels in there, though-- good enough!]

[Meanwhile, the newborn bird Pokemon is sort of... wallowing around on the floor. >:( WTF IS THIS. It's cold and lame.]}

[grabbing the towels! And immediately wrapping the bird up in them. it's okay, birdy, you will stay warm o3o]

_{[It's so leetle. The bird pinches at his fingers with its pale yellow beak as he wraps it up, but it's too little to really hurt much. Still making its peeping noises, of course.]

[HAY. HAY. WHAT ARE YOU DOIN-- ... oh wait soft and warm > whatever I was sitting on a moment before. Never mind, we coo'.]}

[Kaito is good with birds, considering he has an entire flock of doves at home, so! Wrapping up this little one is no problem for him]

'S much better like this, isn't it? [holding onto hiiiim... and then trying to figure out where to put him until Heather wakes up :T;; He still needs to check on Crow]

_{[It is totally better, so the peeping dies down a little bit. Yeah Kaito, you are this bird's bro now. He (... or she? WHO KNOWS YET) will remember you.]

[Fortunately, Heather's bag is sitting right by the legs of the chair-- and given that it's not being filled with any owls at the moment, it's probably a safe place to put the baby.]}

[he sees this, and once the bird is all wrapped up in warm cloths, he places him (HER) snugly in the bag]

It's kinda like a nest, isn't it?

_{[PEEP PEEP PEEP. Definitely sounds like a happy bird, or at least as happy as a newborn can be. His (HER?) eyes haven't opened yet, but if they had, the little bird would probably be staring at him all adoringly.]}

[NEW BFF. FOR REAL. Making sure bb Murkrow is all comfortable, before leeeeaning up to check on Heather again]

_{[FOREVER. Even if the baby can't actually see him yet, his voice is distinctive enough.]

[Heather, meanwhile, hasn't stirred once. She is well and truly dead to the world right now-- face smashed against the inside of one elbow, hair almost completely obscuring her face, and everything. Looks like that week of constant vigilance really caught up with her. This isn't the sleep of someone who's plain old tired, it's the sleep of someone who just had a totally epic caffeine crash.]}

[With the Murkrow safe in the bag and Heather still sleeping, Kaito climbs to his feet and tucks the blanket around the blonde's form a bit tighter. He pauses for a moment, reaching out to brush a few strands of hair from her face, but at the last second he seems to realize what he's doing and retracts his hand.

With a quick shake of his head, he steps back, shoves his hands into his pockets, and nods at the Murkrow]

I've gotta check on someone else, all right? Why don't you try taking a nap, too? Heather's gotta sleep.

_{[She slumbers on, oblivious. Won't even realize he was in there at all until he tells her so a few days later...]

[In the meantime, if a newly-hatched bird could give anybody a 'bitch, please' look, this Murkrow would be doing it. Sleep? NOW? Just when they got through that boring hatching thing? NO WAY. No shell meant that there was a BIG WORLD TO SEE, and ADVENTURES to have, and AWESOME THINGS TO DO, and-- ... oh wait, man, this nest is kinda nice actually....]

[Zonk. Out like a light, just like its trainer.]}

[SUCCESS.

With Heather and Murkrow both sound asleep, Kaito quietly slips out of the room |D]

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