ACE ATTORNEY AU

[enigmaster]

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[enigmaster]

No, nothing's wrong. All good here... [aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]

[agoodname]

[....squid.]

If you say so.....

"I think you'll enjoy it. Gertrude and I loved going to the free concerts in the park when we were younger. We would take a blanket and a picnic and just enjoy the atmosphere."

[enigmaster]

[ELIJAH... PLEASE.....] Uh-huh... [HE DOESN'T WANT TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION IN FRONT OF OSWALD, HE'LL DIE?]

[agoodname]

[Elijah blinks at Edward's reticence, before glancing at his son]

"Oh.

Apologies. Not the best time, is it?"

[enigmaster]

[He shakes his head, quickly, quietly. It's! Really not! And he's... kind of embarrassed.]

[agoodname]

"Later, then."

[he does pause for a moment, however, glancing over at Oswald, just as the elevator dings for their floor]

"....yes. Later."

[and he'll fade out lol]

[enigmaster]

[Edward raises his head again, letting out a breath. Crisis... temporarily averted, he can die later, it's fine. Time to just... get to Oswald's apartment. Yes.]

[agoodname]

[yep, Oswald will let them back into his apartment without a second thought, closing the door behind him and hanging up his coat again] I have to do a bit of work but...would you like to watch a movie afterwards?

[enigmaster]

[The question catches him off guard as he sets the box down to take off his own coat and... ah. YES. YES? YES PLEASE--] ...Sure.

[agoodname]

Okay. [alksdflsdhf okay great cool fine] I'll, ah...get to work, then. It shouldn't take me too long. I just have to review a couple items in the evidence. Then we can watch a movie.

[enigmaster]

Alright. Sure. I'll just... sort through this. [Gesturing vaguely at the box, as he picks it back up. Yep. Okay, he's gonna. Go do that. ...and first things first dig out his charger because his phone is super dead by now]

[agoodname]

[COOL THEN THEY CAN JUST....work. Oswald's on his laptop on the couch, feet propped up on the coffee table, evidence folders sitting beside him that he opens up, makes notes about, and then closes and goes on to the next one.]

[enigmaster]

[And Edward is going to sort through his stuff. Clothes are all there, so those can stay in the box, that's good. There's some books that look... worn. Some of them look like puzzle books.

And... is that a set of lockpicks.]

[agoodname]

[Oswald kind of just blinks when he notices] ...do you have a set of lockpicks?

[enigmaster]

[Edward pauses.] Um. [....................] Yes?

[agoodname]

[well now he's just even more curious] And you know how to use them?

[enigmaster]

Um. Yeah. I'm... pretty good at picking locks, I guess.

[agoodname]

[at that, Oswald kind of...brightens. and looks keenly interested] Could you teach me?

[enigmaster]

[........okay he didn't see that coming.] ...You want to learn? Really? [that's kind of surprising]

[agoodname]

Yes, of course I do. [he shuts his laptop, then, shoving it off his lap and onto the couch so he can crawl over to the arm of the couch and peer over it at what Edward is doing in his Box of Things--especially at those lockpicks] It's a very useful skill to have and one I've been meaning to cultivate.

[enigmaster]

[The box is mostly just a mess of clothes, a few (old, very worn) books, some... sudoku books. What looks like a little travel sized chess set. That... kind of looks to be it.] ...I could teach you, sure. It's not that hard with some practice.

[agoodname]

[Oswald brightens immensely at that]

Great! [he's going to shift to sit next to Edward] So what's the first step. [.....oswald, he probably didn't think you meant right this second]

[enigmaster]

[He blinks. ...Oh, he meant. Now? Like. Like, now, now?] Ah, well. First we kind of need a lock, but. Hold on. [Edward digs through his stuff a little more. There's a small locked box. He takes it out, setting it on the coffee table. And he sets the lockpicks out, too. edward why do you just HAVE THIS] There's different lockpicks for different locks, but Gotham has a lot of old tumbler locks, so that's not much of an issue, usually. For that you want this pick... [setting aside the regular lockpick] ...and a tension wrench. [and that, too.]

[agoodname]

Okay. [HE'S NOT EVEN BOTHERED THAT EDWARD HAS THAT SMALL LOCKED BOX now he's just rly interested] So old tumbler locks--I need a pick like that and a tension wrench. Got it.

[enigmaster]

First you're going to want to take the tension wrench and try to move the lock to the side.

[Edward does so. When he turns it to the left, it doesn't budge, but to the right, it gives... a little.]

So you know right away which way the key has to turn.