Vengeance...Was...Yours? (Repeat Post)
**Bloody Yahoo doesn't appear to have sent my last post, so I've had
to re-write it from unreliable memory. The first one was probably
better, I assure you.**
> Tara dived under Keto's bed and hid out of sight. Keto came
> storming in...
"And Chrysler, if you EVER take my harmonica again...!" shouted
Keto over his shoulder as he marched into the room.
His voice suddenly stopped dead in the middle of his sentence. Jay
and the small group clustered around the doorway peered in.
Keto was standing absolutely still and unmoving, one foot still in
mid-stride, eyes fixed firmly on the message scrawled on the far wall.
Infinitesimally slowly, his gaze moved down the wall, towards his
cabinet. The door was still hanging off it, and several ointments
now dripped out of it, hissing and mixing together where they hit the
floor.
For a moment, the entire ship held its breath.
Then Keto's eyes closed, and as they did so his upraised foot came
down, quietly placing itself on the floor as he breathed slowly,
shallowly, silently.
As if on a turntable, he rotated on the balls of his feet, eyes
opening and staring vacantly at the housemates outside the room.
"Now," he murmured, "Let me see if I'm right...let me get this
straight...just so I'm sure of this...while I was outside, chasing Mr
Chrysler who had stolen my harmonica, somebody sneaked into this room
and destroyed my ointments. Destroyed several years delicate work of
mine. Destroyed something that could have meant a great deal to me
and to every human interested in the medical field. Just so that I'm
certain of that fact."
Slowly, his head turned, moving his gaze across the group of
housemates watching.
"Who could be missing from this picture?" he murmured, "Mr
Chrysler, despite apparently the one with the most motive to perform
such a...despicable act...was not able to have done so. So who...?"
Finally his gaze reached the other end of the group, and he
paused. Then, slowly, he nodded.
Without another word he padded quietly over to his bed and sat on
the end of it, staring at the blank wall opposite him.
"Miss Cleavage," he said, not looking around, "Would you care to
step out from there for a moment?"
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OOC - Would you?
'Course, now I post this Yahoo is going to send the other one!