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[He'll be back after work!

...

He's trying to sneak in through the window that leads to his room. He doesn't want to deal with Elda's lecturing right now. How hardcore are these windows?]

[ Silver you are on the second floor.

... Those windows are locked unless he unlocked it earlier. ]

[He can totally sneak into a second floor window, and he totally unlocked it for exactly this. The day was bound to come someday.

Aoi's a great help, too; he can hitch a ride and then pull the door open while Silver tries not to fall and break his leg. It's a perfect crime. The two of them slip on in, close the window, and Silver opens up his laptop and sits on his bed to make the whole thing natural. Aoi receives a high five for his efforts and chills next to Silver.

Surely this cannot possibly come back to bite him in the ass.]

[ The Police come about ten minutes later. Sirens until they come and knock at the door. Elda blinks and - has to tell them, no, the person the neighbor on the other side saw does in fact live here. No, no. Thank you, officers...

....

And then she bounds upstairs: ]

Silver!

[God dammit, neighborhood watch. Well, there's no way out of this one, and he's not sure if he's more full of panic or relieved that the police are gone.]

Yeah?

[At least he can keep it casual. Too casual, really.]

You come and stand here! ... And that little dinosaur thing too!

[ Once in his room she stomps a foot and points to a spot on the ground in front of her. ]

...He's a crocodile, actually. A Totodile.

[But he'll stand up and step a little closer to her, although not nearly as close as she asks. Totodile stays on the bed.]

... Fine, Totodile! You silly monster, get over here!

[ YOU'RE IN TROUBLE TOO!! ]

[...Well, okay. Totodile jumps down and gets on over, standing right next to Silver with the same unsettling grin he always has.]

His name's Aoi.

If you're going to have some new pet at least give him a proper introduction before now!

[ A hand on her hip ]

Anyway, why did I just get the cops at my door, boy?

...I don't know. Why did they?

[Aoi's got a good pokerface. He's the best partner in crime.]

Oh come now, you must have some idea!

[ She takes a step closer. ]

They mistook something in your garden for weed. I don't know, Elda.

[ Her eyes change into cat-like things as she takes a step closer.

... She doesn't seem to have noticed that ]

I don't think so.

[...He visibly jumps at the eyes and stumbles backwards; he's surprisingly composed in the facial region, all things considered, but everything else about him screams that he's afraid. Totodile isn't particularly pleased by this, of course, and immediately places himself between Elda and Silver; his expression doesn't change, but he's calmly staring right at Elda, and given that his expression doesn't change much, well... It's hard to tell what's going to happen next.]

I climbed in.

And why didn't you just use the door?

[ A hand on her hip, she looks up at him imperiously. You wouldn't think that she would be able to look bigger than someone a foot taller than her but she sure does?? ]

Because of this.

[Because he feels like a cornered animal and wants nothing more than to leap out the way he came, but that would probably break something, so he doesn't try it.]

What, you're that afraid of me?! Then maybe you shouldn't mouth off to me and a police officer!

[ Another step forward... ]

I'm not gonna apologize for looking out for you.

[And a step back to go with it. He's backed up into the bed at this point.]

There's a difference between looking-- and endangering yourself! Besides, you're my so--

[ . . . But he's not, is he? He refused that... ]

[ she relents, the red eyes turning back to normal as she backs up a step, admonished by her own thoughts. ]

... You're a child living under my roof, you're my responsibility to look after, not the other way around.

[...What? Son? Him? He's silent for a moment and kind of... Looks around the room, and at Aoi, and back at Elda, and- did she really just say that?]

I-if I'm a son, I'm the shitty kind of son that ruins all of your dates because I don't want any weird guys around my mom, okay?

[Hypothetically speaking. What the hell is he even saying?]

Wh...What?! No you will most certainly not!

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