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[legalcy]

"You have reached the personal frequency of Ultra Magnus. I am unable to answer your call either due to a scheduled priority or an emergency. If the issue requires my immediate attention, begin your message by stating "Emergency" and the level of threat or writing that information in the subject header. Please leave your name, time and date of contact, message, and location. I will respond at the nearest opportunity."

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[toguidethem]

[This is really bizarre, but Cody tries to roll with it the best he can.]

Over here.

[He leads him over to his bed, which sits opposite of Starflight's. The room itself is filled with furniture that Starflight had spent a while putting together, with some evidence of someone trying to put homely touches, with some things on the wall and a rug. It's not messy, per say, but it does look like it could use some more setting up.

Cody gestures to his bedside table.]

I've looked everywhere for it, and Starflight wouldn't have taken it, he's a good roommate.

[legalcy]

[Minimus - or Verity, whichever helps Cody - leans over the table and peers over the arrangement of items. It's clean. So clean. A clean criminal.]

Have you checked under the furniture? There are times when paper can fly away when a door is opened and fall into a crevice.

[toguidethem]

I've looked, but if you want to help me look again, I would appreciate it.

[Minimus is very thorough, so Cody thinks that if it's still in the room, it'll be found. So Cody starts pulling blankets and sheets off his bed and moving furniture around, hoping that he was wrong about being stolen and that it's actually still in the room.

However, no matter how long or how thoroughly they look, the photo just doesn't turn up.]

[legalcy]

[Minimus goes through each set of furniture, investigates the crevices, and returns it to its original location, but better aligned. Then he does it one more time. No sign of a photo.]

Not here. [He stands up with his hips on his hands and looks up. At the vents.] They could have come in that way...

[Thankfully, he can easily change the size of his holomatter projection, so in a way that will totally not terrify Cody, he gets call enough to peek inside them, checking for signs of tampering.]

[toguidethem]

[This doesn't terrify him, but the entire process is really weirding him out. He keeps that to himself.]

Did they come through the vent?

[The vent isn't huge, but it shows obvious signs of tampering. Some very small hands had undid the screws and pushed it open.]

They'd have to be very-

[And Cody accidentally drops a chair on his bare foot. He lets out a yelp, followed by the Dire Wraith swear Whirl had taught him weeks before. It took a lot of work to get it to sound just right, and now Minimus gets to appreciate it.]

[legalcy]

[These tools are extremely fine. Someone with delicate instruments and a tiny avatar-

Or it was someone very tiny with engineering skills.

One culprit comes to mind. Minimus turns around to Cody.] I have an idea-

[And he is nearly sent into cardiac arrest.]

Language, Cody!!

[toguidethem]

[Having been raised as a good boy, Cody's face immediately turns red at the admonishment. Whoops! Talk about the worst person to swear in front of.]

I'm sorry! It just slipped out.

I won't do it again.

[legalcy]

[He remembers to shrink himself to a Verity-level size before standing in front of Cody like a very disappointed parent. Or older sister in this case.]

You do not speak of such things in polite company. I don't want to hear that kind of talk from you ever again.

What have you been listening to to learn such phrases?

[toguidethem]

[Cody endures the lecture with a hung head, knowing full well that he deserves it.]

Yessir.

I'm, um, learned them by listening to bots talk.

[It's a big fib, but he doesn't want Whirl to get in trouble.]

[legalcy]

They speak Dire Wraith?

[toguidethem]

Sometimes?

[legalcy]

Who?

[toguidethem]

[:(]

...

..........

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Whirl.

[legalcy]

[He looks so tired.]

Of course it was Whirl.

I'll have to talk to him. And you should be more careful of what you say.

[toguidethem]

Okay.

[:(]