Subject: "I'll be right over."
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Posted on: 2014-11-25 02:20:00 UTC
Rina sent the text before shoving her phone in one of her bottomless pockets and slid off her bunk.
"I'm going out for a bit," she said to Randa.
"Mmkay," Randa said, barely glancing up from her sketchbook.
"I dunno when I'll be back. I got a text from one 'Vania Tolluk' about plastic flamingos."
That got Randa's attention. "Plastic flamingos?"
"Forty-seven of them, to be exact. No idea how that happened, but I volunteered to investigate."
Randa half-rose from her own bed. "Want me to come?"
Rina shook her head, blowing her bangs out if her eyes. "Nah, it's fine. You deserve some downtime after that Zelda mission. Relax, have fun, maybe get something to eat. I'll be back... soon." She paused. "Or at least, whatever 'soon' is here. See ya."
She slipped out the door and turned left, only to change her mind and go right before spinning to the left after all, muttering the decimals of Pi under her breath.
After what might have been ten minutes (or ten hours), Rina found herself standing in front of RC 251. She knocked tentatively; you never knew what you'd encounter behind HQ's many doors.
"Uh, hello? It's me, Rina. From the texts."