Find That Letter!

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Characters: Vashta, Parakarry
What: Looking for lost mail
Where: Mount Rugged Somewhere on campus
When: 4/26. Late Morning(?)
Rating: PG


The grass gave a light crunch as Parakarry's boots touched the ground. The lid to his mailbag swung as he fell to his knees and grabbed it to rummage inside. Either the wind had opened it or Parakarry had forgotten to button it up before taking off this morning, he couldn't remember and right now it didn't matter. What mattered to him was the contents inside.
"Let's see. One, two..." he counted softly before muttering a "confound it," under his breath. "No. Oh no. One's missing.'" He frantically looked for the lost letter.
Parakarry had come a long way from being the bumbling postman that had worked in Toad Town but every once in a while an envelope or package would still fall out of his bag. Normally Parakarry would catch it in time or at least see where the fallen mail would land and find it easily but today it went undetected until it was too late.
"Confound it!" he grumbled as he floated again, sticking closely to the ground. As humilating as it would be for people to find out he goofed up, Parakarry hoped someone would come along and help.
It happened once before a long time ago.

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((is he in paratroopa or human form?))

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And come along, someone did. Vashta was on her way back to her dorm after a long, tiring night of lurking about FDC. Had she been slightly more awake, she would've said a short greeting to the postman as she walked by. But as it stood, she wasn't, and so simply...walked by. And then MEG kicked herself for redundancy.

((human 8U ))

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Parakarry gave a gulp. This was going to be embarrassing.

"Um...excuse me." He called out meekly. "Excuse me, Miss....Vashta, correct?"

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Vashta jolted to awakeness upon hearing her name, and turned to the man. "Y-yes, that's me...something wrong?"

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"Um...well..." His face turned red as he spoke in a flustered voice.

"Well...I have a little p-problem." He cleared throat. This was so humiliating. "I'm normally I'm a-a letter-perfect postman but...well...today...er...You didn't see a letter lying around, did you?"

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"Oh! Um..." Vashta fumbled for her words briefly. "I'm sorry, I can't say I have. I'll be happy to help you look, though?"

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"I-I don't want to trouble you!" Parakarry insisted but inside he was ready to beg for Vashta's assistance.

"Well...maybe...if it's not too much of a bother."

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"Oh, don't worry, it's no trouble at all!"

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"Oh praise the Star Spirits!" Parakarry said in joyful relief. "I was afraid I was going to have to scour the entire campus by myself. You're a real lifesaver!"

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Vashta chuckled. "Think nothing of it, Parakarry."

Enough of this idleness, though. Time to get to business. "So. Where do you remember having it last?" Backtracking was usually a good start.

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"Oh right....Well." Parakarry tried to remember. "Let's see...I recall seeing it when I was dropping off some mail over at the teachers' offices this morning. Afterwards, I went to the cafeteria to get some breakfast and delivered some packages containing food they ordered. Right now, I was flying over to the boy's dormitories ...when I noticed my satchel was open."

Parakarry looked down. "So...most likely I lost it in one of those areas."

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"Hm...Let's start with the cafeteria area." With that, Vashta started off...and then stopped.

"...erm. This is a little embarassing..." she laughed nervously. "I'm afraid I don't know my way around the place quite yet..."

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"I see." Parakarry replied as he flapped his wings and began to hover over Vashta.

"Just follow me," he said with a smile, remaining a short distance above her as he led the way.

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And so she followed, paying attention to her surroundings this time.

It wasn't long before they arrived because MEG didn't want to write a bunch of tags of nothing, and Helena probably didn't either.

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"It looks like we've made it before the lunch hour rush." said Parakarry, noting the lack of people in the cafeteria.

"This should make looking easier for us."

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Vashta nodded in agreement as she looked about. "Mm-hmm...were you in a specific area?"

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"Well, entering from this enterance and going straight to the line." He then pointed to a table in a far corner. "Then I went over there to eat."

A pause came. ".....Or was it over at that table," he muttered before pointing to another one. "...Or maybe it was that one... Oh confound it... I don't fully remember."

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She sighed. "Don't worry about it, then. We'll scan the whole area if we have to."

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Parakarry nodded in embarrassment as he muttered an apology. He then turned around.

"I'll take the right side and you take the left, all right?"

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"Right." She nodded in assent, and headed off towards the left of the cafeteria.

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Meanwhile Parakarry took the right. He dived under a table and began searching, occasionally meeting a pair of feet.

"Whoops! Sorry. Excuse me." he said while turning. "Didn't mean to disturb you."

((oh god I completely forgot about this I'm sorry Helena ;A; ))

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Vashta, on the other hand, was short enough had good enough eyesight that she only had to tilt her head a bit to see under the tables. There weren't that many people, so it didn't take much effort.

*TIME PASSES...*

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...no luck. She returned to the cafeteria entrance to wait for the postman there. No need to get worried yet, there were still plenty of other places it could be.

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Parakarry came out from under one of the tables. "No luck from my side. How about you?"

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Vashta shrugged apologetically. "I'm afraid...not...hn." Dammit, she couldn't fall asleep. Not yet. Parakarry needed her help now.

Shaking her head quickly, she carried on. "You said you were at the teachers' offices before this?"

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Parakarry nodded as he wiped off what appeared to be the remnants of a baloney sandwich from his shoe.

((OTL))

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Eh, Vashta had seen worse.

"Then let's see if we have any luck in that direction, shall we?"

Re: ((OTL))

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"all right," replied Parakarry as the two headed out the door and they made their way to the offices.