[Text + Image | Smartphone] (Backdated just a touch to be still daylight)

[shiromadoushi]

I think there's a problem.

I just went to check up on my camera and found this...

[[Attached is a photo of the inside of the abandoned room Bakura had set his camera up in. The snake statue can just be seen out the window, but what takes most the focus is how trashed the room looks. For an abandoned place with very little left behind in it, what little that was left has been knocked over and upended.]]

The camera's gone. Memory card with it.

[[Meaning there's no information at all as to how this could have happened.

BRB, getting the hell out of there.]]

Comments

[Text]

[professorwolf]

Bakura, let me know as soon as you get home that you're safe.

[Because he has a worried teacher on the other end of the line.]

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

[[Because he's walking a bit fast to text]]

I'm not going directly home. Going to go to a coffee shop or something first.

[[because what if whatever found the camera is still lurking to follow him back?]]

[Voice]

[professorwolf]

[He reads that loud and clear.]

Come here if you need to. I'll let you know if anything is following you.

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

And if there is, I'd have let it right too you.

The coffee shop on Birch, half down the block from 4th st. Meet me there?

[Voice => Action]

[professorwolf]

All right. I'll be there in a few minutes.

[It's more like ten, since he had already changed out of work clothes and so now he needed to change back. But he takes the car, too, so it's a quick drive. He climbs out and looks around for the familiar shock of white hair.]

[iaijutsu]

[HE TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS CAMERAS, BRO]

Is there anything in the room that wasn't there before?

[Footprints? Calling cards with name and address? Yeah, it's wishful thinking, he's sure, but.]

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

[[As if Bakura ever stops to think about the consequences of his actions.]]

I don't know. I don't think so. [[He's sounding just a touch shaken there.]]

[iaijutsu]

If there is, it could be worth something to know, but if there isn't anything obvious, then I wouldn't stick around for too long looking.

[shiromadoushi]

I'm not sticking around at all.

[[In fact, he's already a block and a half away]]

( text )

[argents]

That sounds bad. There's no way for it to be traced back to you is there?

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

I don't think so... It's a pretty cheap camera, there has to be hundreds like it....

( text → voice )

[argents]

[ He switches to talking on his phone, tone disconcerted. ]

You shouldn't go back there. What if someone saw you?

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

I don't know... I thought I'd hidden it well, and I go into that area all the time....! [[he's actually... really upset by this. Trying not to show it, but upset all the same.]]

Text

[icy_heavens]

Any clues as to who took it?

[Yep, it's that serious kid. Who is now wondering how long that camera was there and if his picture is on it. It's not paranoia if they're really after you.]

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

[[Not unless you were there in the last 24 hours. He swaps and cleans the memory cards between visits.]]

None.

Text

[icy_heavens]

[You think he's gotten near that thing again since it gave him that weird power? Yeah, right.]

Terrific.

[And after a minute:] You're okay, right?

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

[[If it were Bakura, that'd be all the more reason to go back. Maybe get a second...]]

Yeah...

Just kinda shaken up.

Audio

[dorkytracksuit]

Is there anyway they can find out it was you who set it up?

Audio

[shiromadoushi]

I don't know. I don't think I was in the line of the camera for any close up and it doesn't record any audio.... it'd just be when I was leaving that it would have seen me at all, and I don't really walk in the frame of it when I head out...

Re: Audio

[dorkytracksuit]

Don't set it up again.

Audio

[shiromadoushi]

You don't need to tell me that...

[[as if he'd be so stupid to make the same mistake twice...]]

[Texted]

[espigeonage]

Are you home yet? At any places you're around a lot?

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

No. I'm going to a cafe nearby. I've been there a few times. It should be safe there...

[espigeonage]

Right. Good. You don't want them following you...

[shiromadoushi]

Yeah...

[[Kicking himself mentally so bad for this. So bad.]]