5th Turn [Video/Action] Forward Dated to the 26th

[redjacketthief]

[It's late at night that the video feed opens. The thief is there, not remembering proper camera etiquette again, with a finger held up to his smiling lips. "Be quiet," he seems to be asking. Not that it would save him.

While he's requesting quiet, he himself is haphazardly humming a soft, haunting melody, the title of which he will swear to the day that he dies that he doesn't know. For a man who hasn't spoken to God in years, his humming is strangely reverent.

The viewers soon realize why.

The thief removes himself from the video feed, presenting a scale replica of a cathedral that some may recognize as the forever incomplete Sagrada Familia, the magnum opus of the deceased architect, Gaudi. Done up entirely in matchsticks and glue, and delicately standing on the coffee table in front of Lupin's zebra print sofa, it is but a faint echo of the original's majesty.

Astute observers will notice something different about it--it doesn't look as incomplete as it is in real life. The thief comes back into view, smiling.

There are secrets lingering just beneath the surface of his gaze. He will say nothing that will indicate what, though.]

Beautiful, isn't it. Been feeling a little nostalgic, for some reason. I thought the Old Man would appreciate it.

Comments

[herotypical]

...A monocle. Did he have a top hat too?

[redjacketthief]

He faced off against Sherlock Holmes and won. Surely you can do that math, right Buffy?

[herotypical]

Oh. I can do the math. Did the math ages ago. I just wanna let you know that it's cruel and unusual to spring a pop quiz on a stranger.

[ in other words? she's being typically difficult. ]

[redjacketthief]

Pop quiz? This is basic history here! What little kid hasn't thought of working along side of or besting the Great Detective, after all?

[herotypical]

...Possibly the kind of little kid who preferred fantasizing about a perfectly normal life, instead.

[redjacketthief]

What is this 'normal' that you speak of? I've never seen it, heard it, or even touched it. I've heard of it, but, with no evidence, I don't believe it exists!

[herotypical]

...Which makes it all the more fantastical to strive for, don'tcha think?

[redjacketthief]

Aaahh~ Normal-anything just isn't the sort of thing for me, even if it is a rare, fantastical thing.

[herotypical]

I guess that's what you get for clearly being on the wrong side of the law.

[redjacketthief]

Oh ho~! So you can do math!

...just so you know, the law is a vague, picky thing. Not everyone who breaks it every now and again is a bad person, just so you know.

[herotypical]

Been there. Done that. Got the tshirt. [ and that tshirt has a pirate's skull and crossbones on it. ]

I'm well acquainted with grey areas. [ she just doesn't like them. ]