Later on during the fourth day of Performance Art week

[highsteaks]

So I dunno if everyone's heard about it so far, but this is Chie and I twisted my ankle during my dance because my shoe flew off and it made me mess up a landing. I'm in the infirmary now. If you want to come by and bring me get-well meat, I'll be there at least overnight, maybe for a second night too.

But here's the thing: somebody messed with my shoe.

I don't know who did it and I only can sort of guess as to when, but sometime this morning, someone put this bit of metal into my shoe that was sawing away at the lace as my dance went on until it broke. I might have kind of left them unattended backstage while I was on the other side of it doing barefoot exercises--but seriously, why would someone do that? And how did they manage to sneak their way into doing it? I thought they might be invisible, but Coach Riverson says that's impossible--but then again, he's got Kinji in him, so that might make him be stupider. I'm pretty sure being Kinji is a good reason for anyone overlooking stuff.

But my point is that someone's cheating. And I bet I'm not going to be the only one that gets messed with. Not by a long shot.

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[highsteaks]

I mean, I was backstage on the far side, my shoes were backstage on the side the piano was before they must have wheeled it out for you... since they were by each other, I could see the jerk messing with with both at once. They'd have had twenty minutes to do it too.

I still think they were either invisible or really good at hiding, though. I was pretty focused on my exercises so I didn't pay too much attention to the other side where I'd left my shoes, but I mean I didn't notice people going over there at all.

[grimjeaper]

Yeah, I-I uh, didn't actually see anything either. But-- your shoes are one thing, but someone fucking with a grand piano is gonna be really noticeable, especially with how difficult it is to, like, actually mess with a pin. Breaking it's easier, but it's louder too, so whoever did this definitely had to have known what they were doing.

[highsteaks]

Yeahhhhh.

I'm sorry I didn't notice they were messing with stuff. I was just, I dunno, kind of in the exercise zone?

I wonder if they even knew I was back there. I mean, there wasn't a line of sight between my work-out area and the piano area at all. I guess that means maybe they were just sneaky and not invisible... but I like invisible better.

[grimjeaper]

Hey, I didn't exactly notice either. We were both in that flow zone.

But hey, we have a few things established now, right? At least one Lone Star and one Teikoku student have being targeted, the person causing it having invisibility as a power is on the table, and they're someone with a level of skill that usually takes a few years of proper study to reach, which means they might be either one of the older kids or an adult.

[highsteaks]

That's not a bad place to start, really. And we've got Naoto to help us look too. She's a real detective, you know.

[grimjeaper]

Huh. Almost makes me wish we had Angus here. Magnus and Taako look like they've sort of adopted this child detective from Abeir-Toril, Angus McDonald, apparently he's the world's greatest. Or something. I've only met the kid once.

[highsteaks]

Child detectives are usually better at doing their thing that the actual police, in my experience.

[grimjeaper]

Probably because kids are less likely to dismiss options that adults think don't make sense.

[highsteaks]

That's definitely true.