If You Give a Bittybones a Cookie

There's A Mystery Afoot

Tears of frustration burn at the corner of your eyes as you mourn for your poor incapacitated AC. Of all the things they could have messed with why did it have to be your AC? With a heavy sigh and a swipe at your eyes, you unpack your tools miserably. How the hell did they break it in the first place?

Dammit. Now you had to try and fix the AC in this stifling heat. Your only saving grace is that the sun was setting, bringing cooler temperatures with it. And-

Tap tap tap…

Rain taps against the window, startling you out of your thoughts. A gentle smile graces your face as you sigh, letting the stress and tension melt away with the rain. The rain has always calms you down, no matter how stressed you are.

You take a deep breath and let it out, calm taking the place of anger. Everything is cool. It will be an easy fix. No need to get worked up into a tizzy about it. You've fixed things in worse shape before and you can do it again.

Then… then you could figure out what the heck is going on around here. A tingle of fear that you had been optimistically ignoring all day slithers down your spine. You could be in real danger here. This is really starting to freak you out…

First the living room and now this? You need to get to the bottom of this to see what the hell you could do to remedy this situation.

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Papy fiddles with his holey gloves, a guilty feeling digging into his bones with every passing moment as he stares up at the distraught human fiddling with the machine the others just broke. The human didn't deserve this kind of torment…

He is very...conflicted about this new human.

He knows they just got here and he shouldn't judge them so soon…

…

But…

They… they seem so nice and… there was something… about them that draws him in… and-

…Oh! Where are they going?

He climbs out from under the bed and follows the human out of the room, taking care to make as little noise as possible. Papy peeks around the corner, tilting his head in confusion when the human pulls their phone out of their pocket and turns the flashlight on.

What is the human up to…?

Their head turns to and fro as they shine their flashlight into the rafters and small crevices in the walls while they walk slowly through the halls, their eyes narrow in concentration.

Realization hit Papy like a truck. The human was looking for the others! He hurries back down the hallway to warn his brother. He couldn't let the human find the others, no matter how friendly they seem.

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You tap a quiet, nervous rhythm on the back of your phone as you scan your surroundings, hoping to find something, anything, to set your mind at ease. You flash your light into the rafters once again as your feet carry you through the silent halls of your new house. A small melody slipped passed your lips, making you feel very much like Luigi from Luigi's Mansion. The thought of being the nervous green bro makes you chuckle, setting your frazzled nerves at ease a bit.