Abitc 16.5; Daisy Tonner's Very Strange Escort Mission
A very, verrry rough snippet that has been completely rewritten at this point, but is self contained enough to share. Or, Elias and Jon's escort to Bournemouth is a wet behind their ears Daisy who is 19 has very little Hunt in her, and would probably be a Buffy wannabe.
As the youngest sectioned officer on record, Daisy knows why she’s been assigned to this silly little escort mission. But it’s still a bit embarrassing for her first assignment outside of writing tickets to be- to be escorting an oddly cheerful man and his creepy son to Bournemouth.
The man, one Elias Bouchard has somehow managed to coerce the three of them into a game of blackjack, citing it to be ‘An excellent way to while away the train ride.’ And while the man is very good at cheating, she’s not quite sure how this foppish airhead was accused of murder. He’s far more open than his son, rambling on about, well she tuned him out after the third tangent, about the link between censorship and cultural conservatism. But the strangest thing, if she read case file correctly, the one that had committed the murder Bouchard was accused of, it was a ghost? A ghost who had confessed to said crime?
It’s- Bouchard is weird, but in the way most bookworms tended to be. She’d go as far as to say that the man is harmless, with a penchant for spoiling his son.
His son, is much more… eerie. Bright green eyes take up half his face, and he hardly ever blinks. Minutes pass, and when he does blink it’s slow, cat-like and lazy, a predator sunning itself as it observes the dalliances of rabbits. More pressingly, Jonathan is also cheating, though he’s much more blatant about it, brows furrowed as he stares her down.
“If you’re going to count cards like your old man, you should be less obvious about it.” Daisy huff, peering a second time at her hand. A two and a ten aren’t bad at all. “Hit me.”
“Old man?” Bouchard cries, but she’s become well practiced at tuning him out by now. The boy blinks owlishly, head tilted in confusion. “I’m not counting cards, that takes too long and has a chance of failure. I just thought you’d be more-” He wobbles his hand and shrugs. But she really is glad for the tension the boy carries, the pronounced frown, the cowlick Bouchard occasionally attempts to smooth down. It helps to offset the sense of wrong, the unease that has been writhing beneath her skin.
“Scary? I don’t make a habit of spooking kids,” she says wryly, before adopting a sly smile, “only monsters.” Well, she’d like to at least.
But Jon goes very still, like a mouse who senses an owl's gaze. Bouchard wraps an arm around his son, encouraging him to curl into his side, and all of a sudden the cabin goes very, very cold.
“How would you define a ‘monster’ Officer Tonner?” Bouchard asks. She knows now, where the kid gets that unsettling quality, the unnerving placidness, and those piercing eyes.
“A monster is-” She remembers that lipless and scabby mouth, pitch black tongues and whispered curses, and her scar burns. “-it’s something that doesn’t know when to stop, something that takes and takes and takes. A void that can never be filled and never be seen by a casual observer.”
“I see.” And then he smiles, bright and sparkling and warm as he slides her a king. “Anyway, I do believe that’s a bust Miss Tonner.”
And as Jonathan folds at fourteen, and Bouchard reveals his eighteen, she thinks she can see how this man could have committed murder.
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artist ask meme!!
1, 3, 7
1. oooh hmm I like orange!! Orange is a very fun color I think even though green is nice too hehe :] but I like working with orange its fun!
3. Idk I just put my playlist which includes lots of Cool Songs™️ and listen to them! But there are some (these ones) which I like a LOT because they are about mythology and I love mythology and they're in spanish
7. Sketching! I prefer it because I don't have to think things like "oh no this line is too curvy euhghg" so it's fun and I guess that's why I don't have any single finished drawing in my sketchbook oh well
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So, either the thing I heard about the DexNav having a fixed encountered rate was true, despite both Serrebi and Bulbapedia saying that the chain does matter; or I got REALLY lucky. Either way, it's finally come home!
I've been hunting for this thing for about a week at this point. I screwed up the chain and was working on building it back up. But not even 5 encounters in, I finally found the shiny. I think I even have some time to get some ribbons on it before the 3DS online service shuts down.
Pokemon Bank should still be open despite everything else shutting down in less than a week. But who knows how long? I was hoping to get this hunt done sooner rather than later just to be on the safe side.
I might even have enough time to squeeze in that Corsla hunt as well... we'll see.
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