RP: A Walk in the Park Characters: Jasper, Hiei Time/Date: Wee hours, September 5 Location: convenience store Warnings/Rating: None Summary: Jasper wants to explore a little Status: Complete
Since his powers had been fairly well crippled when he'd gotten here, the complete absence of them didn't come as a big surprise. Or a big inconvenience. He'd been spending his time almost exclusively with Alice since he'd arrived, very likely annoying everyone around their respective rooms with their ... less than quiet activities.
He'd seen at least one reference to it in the network, and that had kind of made him grin. They'd have to try harder to be ... quiet in the future. If he remembered. Which he doubted he would.
Parting company from Alice, he wondered how long it would be before she found him again. Not that he was in a rush to separate from her to begin with, but he did want to poke around a little and ... well, she tended to be a distraction. Especially if they were anywhere near a wall. Or a horizontal surface.
Jasper hadn't seen much of their world outside of the hotel, aside from glimpses out through windows. They didn't need the items in the food store, and there were no possibilities of anything in the mall strong enough to lure him away from the comfort of Alice and one of their beds. Given that he'd been here a while now, he thought it was high time he got a proper feel for the place. It was remiss of him not to have learned the layout from the beginning, but he'd rectify that while things were more open.
He had every intention of learning every inch of their prison. Crippled though he was, reduced to near-human senses as he was, Jasper was still a military man with military training.
He'd start in the store, learn the layout, explore it as well as he could, determine what sort of things were stocked there, and how they might be useful in the future if they were anything other than food. He'd seen a few lighters (or smelled the cigarette smoke, which meant there was a fire source somewhere), and that was filed away in the back of his mind. He wasn't ready to cut off noses to spite faces, but there was every possibility he might want to burn some things down at some point, if only to make a point to their captors.
With his hands in his pockets, his shoulders slightly hunched in an attempt to make himself look less aggressive than he was feeling, Jasper made his way across the barren land toward the store that had once been part of a gas station - apparently. Letting himself into the store, he bypassed the displays and refrigerated compartments and went right to the backroom of the store. The fact that the door wasn't locked made him assume one of two things - there was nothing worthwhile back here, or they were arrogant enough to believe their defenses strong enough to thwart everyone here. He was sure they were careful about what sorts of people they brought in, what sort of weapons they allowed ... but Alice had shared a story that proved they'd slipped up at least once.
If they'd screwed up once, they'd do it again. Everyone just had to be ready for that moment to take advantage of it.
Poking around the back room, he found nothing of interest among the scattered boxes and crates there. So he began tapping on the wall, listening to hear if it echoed. It stood to reason, didn't it, that they had a back way in and out of every place they stocked; if it was back here, he had every intention of --
Jasper grinned, and rapped against the wall again. The difference in sound was faint -- possibly too faint for normal human ears, but it was there. Solid wall. Solid wall. Less than solid wall. A door? There were no marks, no handles, no visible seams, nothing at all to indicate from this side it was a door. So maybe an anomaly in the construction? A hollow spot in the wall that was nothing at all? It was possible, though as Jasper continued his investigation, he wasn't sure sure that was all it was.
Maybe he'd have to start taking up a guard dog position in the back room of the store. Just in case.
Grinning, he let himself out of the back room to explore the store for material that had the potential to be used against their captors, though he didn't honestly harbor much hope of finding anything horribly useful.