"May-"

Wait. How is? But she should be! There's no reason for her to! No! None! None at all! Why is this happening?!

"May-"

No but, the amount of money she was given is staggering! She could go anywhere! She could do anything! It is simply not possible that she could need to do this! Does she just get off on waitress jobs or something? And why would she come to a place like [i]this[/i] to do it?! Wouldn't she at least want to travel somewhere warmer for once in her--

"May, May, May, Maymaymaymaymaymaymaymaymayz!"

Erika claps her hands over her mouth and squeaks in scarlet faced horror. Her legs snap together and she turns from that accusatory stare to squirm under it. She mustn't! She mustn't! She can't! Erika Fullbright does [i]not[/i] know Mayzie Sighs! But Mayzie knows her. Mayzie knows everything about her, down to the smallest details of what's underneath her skirts. She! Sh-she! Mmmghn!

AHEM!

"M-may I please suggest you head back down the stairs, uh, miss? There's a, erm. I mean it's, not, uh. Not safe up there. We were just playing cards! But then someone went and accused the table of cheating! And now it's all, well, yes. If you could, erm, that is... goodness that's a really lovely purple, where did you-- I mean no!

"I was! on mY way! T-to get help! I'm a detective, Miss, I can't subdue troublemakers all by my lonesome! S-so please! Just, t-turn around and! And go! Over there! For, for help! Yes!"

'I could never let a pretty girl like you get in trouble' is what Erika Fullbright would want to say, with a wink and a smile like lightning, but wants are not the same thing as capabilities. Caught or not, she can't mess this up. She can't drop the act.

She peers at the starewell through the crack in her fingers, twisting on the ball of one foot. Is she gone? Is the coast clear! Please! Why did it have to be [i]her?[/i]