Cole - Dogboy incoming
Wick - What
Cole appears in the lighthouse as he looks for the stairs "time to look for lock"
The metal staircase is still there as its a bit darker without any sunlight from above. Cole goes up the staircase as he looks out across the horizon. Its midnight as the sky is lit up with a display of stars. Its the same view as before but with a faint light coming from the manor's windows.
"Hmm" Cole leaps off of the lighthouse and starts sprinting, while looking for the neighborhood he murdered someone in. The forest is covered up with lightning bugs and he finds himself at the road headed to the right from the manor. heading down it he doesnt find the dead body as he reaches what looks like a small neighborhood filled with two story houses with lush small gardens. The sidewalk is lit with street lights. Houses here and there have lights on. He looks for house number 234. It's the blue house on the corner of the fourth block. There's an arch of white flowers to enter the yard and a bird bath surrounded by more flowers. there's no lights on except the porch light. He approaches the house and climbs up the house siding, as quietly as he can while looking for a bedroom window. There's two windows that both pier into what looks like a stairway with pictures along the wall and a few doors at the top of the stairs. sitting in the window seal is a potted cactus. He slowly opens the unlocked window. it slides open as he smells what can only be described as the signature grandparents house smell. He climbs into the window quietly. It's a carpeted floor and the walls have a floral wallpaper. He's also hit by the smell of a scented humidifier blasting a flowery smell in the corner on a table. He holds in a ack as he tip toes over to the doors.
Cole - Your humidifier almost made me ack
Wick - Oh yeah Blair has that thing runnin 24/7 for that little cactus
Wick - Wait, how did you know we had one?
Cole - don't worry about it
Wick - Uhhh
there's 4 doors, none are marked. Cole tip toes up to the left door and sniffs it. it smells of bleach.
Cole quietly says "aaaccckkk" and moves onto the door next to it and sniffs
It smells like clean laundry.
Cole - did you do laundry recently?
Wick - No?
Cole - hmm alright, and do you clean with bleach?
Wick - Get out of my house
Cole - I am not in your house?
Wick - …
He moves onto the next door and sniffs. It almost smells like nothing but there's a faint smell of trees and dirt. He moves onto the next door and sniffs. It almost smells like nothing but there's a faint smell of tea. He slowly cracks open the door that smells like tea and peeks his head in. There's a small night light in the corner of the room that barely lights up anything and there's a window with the curtains drawn beside a cheap bed. The room is fairly small and there's clothes and random paper all over the floor along with a handful of rocks. He fully sticks his head in the room and tries his best to not look threatening. there's a lump under the covers on the bed.
Cole tiptoes fully into the room and whispers "I'm a genie, what are your three wishes?"
There's no response
"i could make you a balloon animal or get any sweet in the world" Cole is still whispering
There's no response
"Hemlock Winthrop Whim, I can see you, what are your wishes?"
There's no response. Cole moves the blanket with the tip of his claw. Under the blanket is a pillow. The door behind Cole shuts and locks. Cole walks over to the door and starts picking the lock with his claws and quickly finds out the door knob is now electrified. Cole yelps at max volume as he quickly clamps his muzzle shut. There's the sound of a lightswitch cutting on from downstairs and the quiet scrambling of feet to the next room over.
Cole mutters quietly "shit"
He starts looking for a metal clothes hanger with no luck. He then looks for paper clips or hair pins but finds nothing.
Wick - You're in my house. What the bleep
Cole - no?
Wick - You're locked in my room right now
Cole - no i'm not, i'm sitting in the living room of my house
Wick - You literally yelped
Cole - i'm not a dog
There's the sound of a door and footsteps downstairs and someone else leaving the room next to Lock’s room and heading to the furthest door. Cole starts looking for anything that could be useful as he starts to panic. There really isn't many things in the room to begin with. steps head up the stairs as the hall light turns on.
He can see light from under the door and hear a female voice "Guys? What did we say about staying up?"
Cole dives under the bed and clamps his muzzle shut. While under the bed he sees papers stuffed between the metal bars and the mattress as well as a few handfuls of carnival tickets. The door is unlocked as it opens and someone stands in the doorway for a moment. they quietly grumble "Lock???"
Cole doesn't move or say a word
"Over here, sorry" you hear Lock say from in the hall.
"What was that yelp for?"
"I almost fell on my way to the bathroom. Had a nightmare."
The door to Lock’s room closes but does not lock. Cole keeps quiet and closes his eyes to hide. Their conversation is muffled by the door as he can hear another door open and lower male voice speaking. Eventually the hall light cuts off as the steps head down the stairs again. the door creaks open. Cole keeps his eyes closed and doesn't move
"Hey tosser, I know you're in there" lock whispers
Cole unclamps his muzzle and sighs quietly as he whispers "do you want the wishes or not?"
"You can take those wishes and wish em up your bleep." She sounds irritated
"well that's rude, you shouldn't be rude to genies"
She fully steps into the room with a quiet huff "Why are you here?!?"
"you were selected at random for 3 random wishes from the genie counsel"
She walks over and looks under the bed as Cole slowly turns to look at lock "sup"
Lock looks rather younger with a chipped tooth, a star tank top, a long tail, and wrappings on her arm. She squints at seeing cole "Your mom did you no favors"
"gee thanks, and i don't have a mom"
"So why are you here other than to give me a heart attack?"
"....you want a flower or something else that might take 1 to 2 business days?"
she stares at him with a confused look. Cole takes a red poppy out from his jacket
"Poppy?"
"I don't want a stupid poppy, I want you out of my house"
"are you sure you don't want the poppy? it won't wilt"
"Get. Out. Of. My. House."
"you wanna see a magic trick?"
"Bleeping what."
Cole disappears and the poppy is left behind
Wick - FERAL BRAINS
Cole - what?
Wick - STAY OUT.
Cole - I was never in your house
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