02 ✘ TEXT. ACTION.

[emaiya]

[ Investigation is key in everything, but not with a phone that has her name attached to it. After an inevitable struggle with many prepaid phones, she's discovered that there's no way to do what she needs with an ordinary phone. Therefore she must acquire one from any of the other non-natives.

It doesn't take her long to track an extremely dumb and loud-mouthed captive. One that's stupid enough to leave his phone laying around without second thought. Since he's young, she knows he might notice his phone's gone missing, but maybe most of his effort would be spent pitching a fit instead of searching for it.

Once she's made it far enough from the boy, she'll send out a message or two with his phone. Those who are on top of things will recognize it as Eridan Ampora's phone. ]

I'm kinda curious about something. [ 'Kinda' seemed like a kid thing to type. Little does Maiya realize how far off she is. ] There's a lot of people here with the same name - Saber, Lancer, Archer, etc. What does that mean? Do these individuals have any other names? I wonder where I can find them just to ask myself even.

[ After fooling around with this person's phone for a few hours, she's considerate enough to dump it back where the boy would find it. Only after thoroughly wiping it free of her evidence right down to disinfectant and mass deletion of details that day. ]

Comments

[wweh]

[He knew he was missing something... Eridan returns to the scene of the crime, catching her placing the phone back where it was found]

An' just what do you think you're doin' over there?

[emaiya]

[ Calmly placing the phone down, she'll spare him a look. ]

This was left behind, so I looked for a place to turn it into. There was none, so I thought if I returned here, I could make sure the proper owner could find it.

[wweh]

[Staaare.]

You couldn't a' been lookin' too good because I know I've been searchin' for my phone shortly after I left this place...

Which probably was an hour or so ago.

I don't like people touchin' my things, nevermind them playin' on my phone.

Hand it over.

[emaiya]

[ This is the look of a woman you don't entirely want to cross, Eridan. Even if there was a hint of ire in her features, they melt away to leave her without any notable expression. ]

Here. [ Tossing it towards him without hesitance. ] You didn't miss any calls. I take it you don't get very many.

[wweh]

What do you mean I don't get many fuckin' calls? A' course I do. Well you've certainly proven yourself innocent cause my phone's always ringin'. I'm a busy an' popular kid, you know?

[emaiya]

[ Oh geez, what a headache. ]

You can check for yourself. No missed calls.

[wweh]

Whaaaat?! That can't be fuckin' true.
[Eridan checks her claim to be sure. Damn. She's right.]

You probably just erased all a' my fuckin' history because you were curious about the business a' one like myself an' you didn't want me to be findin' out about it.

[emaiya]

No, it's true. Just sit around with your phone for a while. I'll even wait with you.

[ Maiya's not one to troll so she doesn't really see that her "kindness" is pretty insulting. ]