Odd Little Happenings With Odd Little People: Stinky Little Badge

“You lost your badge? Are you serious?” Disbelief coated Danver’s words as the Luxray shuffled, embarrassed. Rosemary sat off to the side, very obviously not paying attention to their conversation what-so-ever.

“It’s not like I did it on purpose! It was an accident…” they murmured. Danver’s stare burned holes into the Luxray's eyes.
They let out an embarrassed cry, holding their head in their paws, “LOOK, look — I got my job recently, okay? Education is really hard for me, and I was so happy when I finally finished law school and got my first case. It’s not a crime to be proud of myself!!”

 

Danver squinted. Then, they sighed, a bit more sympathetic. “Yeah. Yeah, I get that but – seriously. You could be in serious trouble if it gets stolen. There’s scams and thieves everywhere, you know.”

Rosemary’s eyes glazed over to Danver, narrowing her eyes in amusement at the irony. Danver ignored xem, addressing the Luxray. “Where’d you last see your badge?”

 

The Luxray looks around the outside of the building, scrunching their muzzle up. They gesture to the flowering bushes surrounding the stairs of the law office, unsure. “I have no idea. I just noticed, like, an hour ago that it was gone, and I was on the front steps then.”

Dear god, this person is an idiot, Danver thinks miserably as Rosemary promptly wanders off to the sidewalk leading up to the office.  

Danver huffs, watching her leisurely strut away. “Okay. Me and my… uh, partner, will go look for it for you. Sit tight.”

 

The Squakabilly takes flight, flapping off to join their partner. Xe is digging around in the grass to the left of the sidewalk, narrowing her eyes. Danver hisses in her ear. “Why do I have to talk to these people?”

 

“Charisma,” is Rosemary’s lackadaisical answer. “I lack it. You have it.” 

Dear Arceus, does xe have to be so vague all the goddamn time? “Ok. Whatever. You said you’re a witch, can’t you just,” they pause to gesticulate an explosion with their wings, “poof it into existence or something?”

“No,” the Shinx answers. Danver waits a moment for her to continue, but xe doesn’t. They resist the urge to thrash Rosemary as xe begins to dig. Then, miraculously, Rosemary snatches a shiny little trinket out of the ground; the Luxray’s badge.

Danver stares incredulously at the stupid little thing. Rosemary shrugs and waltzes back over to the lawyer. “Here.”

 

“Oh!” they cry happily, almost tearfully, “thank you, thank you so much!”

Danver sighs. “Please don’t lose it next time…”