[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.]]

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[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.]

[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.]

( text )

[argents]

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

[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]

[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.]]

[Voice]

[shiromadoushi]

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

[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.]

[Action]

[shiromadoushi]

[[It's there, half hidden in the dark blue hoodie Bakura is so fond of. Bakura himself has already gotten himself a take out cup of tea and looks to be half spacing out as he holds it in both hands, not really looking at anything.

He's still very tense and despite appearances, hyper aware of his surroundings. His eyes glance up at the car door and his left hand twitches just a touch before he makes eye contact with his teacher, saying nothing.

If it's safe, Lyall will give him a sign, right?]]

[Action]

[professorwolf]

[Lyall meets the glance, but before he says anything, he pauses outside his car for a good few breaths of the air outside. Nothing unusually animal about it... or that strange mixed scent... so he heads inside to where Bakura sits.]

Feeling all right?

[Action]

[shiromadoushi]

Mostly... [[There's a good bit of worry in his voice, his normal mask of nothing being wrong discarded.]] I'd missed it since I came in the side... but the back door had been broken open... from the outside. Someone knew it was there and went right to it.. even though I'd hidden it.

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.

[professorwolf]

[Lyall slides into the seat opposite him, watching him unhappily. Mostly because one of his closest students just got himself into a potentially dangerous situation. Again.]

Either there is surveillance on the statue that isn't ours... or else they have another way of tracking when someone has been somewhere. How often did you go by?

[shiromadoushi]

Once a day... it saves the images to the memory card, so I went by each day to pick it up and swap it with a new one....

[professorwolf]

[That's more than enough. Lyall sighs, feeling like this is probably his fault, for encouraging him... at least he's not hurt. He just could have been.]

It may be that... whoever it was has some kind of ability like I do. Your scent would be strong enough, there, to lead anyone to it.

Audio

[dorkytracksuit]

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

[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.

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[argents]

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

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

[shiromadoushi]

[[The teen looks down at the sigh, looking properly chastised. For all he puts up his facade of doing what he wants without care what other people think... this is his favorite teacher. Doing that 'I'm very disappointed in you, Ryou' thing that his grandmother does. Ouch.]]

I didn't think of something like that... [[admits very softly.]] I've always gone to that place a lot... it was like a playground of hidden places...

[shiromadoushi]

I'm not sticking around at all.

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

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...

[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.]]

[professorwolf]

[Lyall's shoulders come up in a shrug.]

Why would you? It isn't as if we expect these things, in daily life, and it's always been safe for you. Just because it isn't now....

[Bakura might have guessed. Lyall had guessed. But he still doesn't necessarily blame him. He hasn't been avoiding the statue, either, and truth be told, he's probably about as helpless as a teenage boy. Maybe more, as he doesn't ever visit the gym.]