Intruder Maintenance {Fox}

[Lorelei Summer-Lac]

Lorelei was stuck in a boys' dorm window.

In her defense, it should've opened all the way. Really, who didn't have windows that could open wide enough for someone as scrawny as Lorelei to fit through? She might actually have been able to fit if, you know, she wasn't afraid of crunching precious bits that had only just finished recovering properly. As it stood, she was a little worried about wriggling free or wriggling out, which presented quite a bit of a problem, seeing as she was only in the window in the first place because she'd heard the door opening.

Why was she in the dorm in the first place?

So Lorelei might have heard tell that there was an evil group of foxes that could also turn into wolves? That was a rumor that someone had started spreading and it checked with some of Lorelei's notes, so she figured better check it out, potentially save the school from a werefox infestation (as opposed to the vampire infestation they were going to work through anyway). She might have spelled her way past the door (one of the few non-healing spells). She may have been rummaging around. She may have panicked and figured the door was a great way out.

She was definitely stuck.

"Next time," she mumbled, trying to reach down, "pull the dagger out first," because of course she had a dagger. She was her parents' daughter. If you snuck in somewhere dangerous, you had a weapon. If her dad had his way, Lorelei would go around armed just in general, let alone when doing something stupid dangerous. "I'm gonna get caught and either eaten or on someone else's list," Lorelei mumbled, trying to take a deep breath. She had maybe ten seconds to think of a good story...

[Fox Wilde]

When Fox's sensitive hearing picked up the sound of movement in his dorm room, he assumed Raff had just got back before him, the uni students had classes at weird times after all and the triplets often finished at different times to him. Even the sound of a faint female voice made him assume the girls were with him - until he realised that, quiet as the mutter had been, there had been nothing familiar about the voice.
That made him hesitate, could it possibly be that Raff had a girl round? Was he supposed to stay outside, avoid interrupting them? Wasn't there something about a sock on the door? There definitely wasn't a sock anywhere near the door, and a cautious sniff didn't detect the kind of pheremones that would indicate something inappropriate... not that he would be able to smell that from out here anyway.

He opened the door cautiously, moving very slowly to give Raff a chance to notice and tell him to stop if there was somebody with him, but when no warning came he shrugged and headed the rest of the way in, letting the door swing closed behind him - he probably would have shut it properly, but he'd let go of it in the shock of seeing a girl stuck in the window, and Raff nowhere to be seen.
Had he caught a burglar? Was this a crime thing? He tried to remember everything his father had ever taught him about confronting criminals (it had mostly seemed to be 'don't', at least to him anyway). There were several bits of good advice he had in his arsenal, so of course he forgot all of them and instead went for;

"Stop, Police." he cringed at himself and added "I mean, not really police. Sorry. Uh... what are you doing?"

[Lorelei Summer-Lac]

Police? Lorelei froze, trying to figure out what story she could spin to not get arrested or something. She'd barely started, her mouth just opening, when the guy kept going, admitting to not being police. His voice didn't sound familiar, though it at least sounded young, so Lorelei had that going for her.

What was she doing?

"Um, mostly just hanging out right now?" she said, adding a nervous laugh. That was a good opener, right? Funny? "You know, since, like, I can't move and all. Just hanging here. Definitely stuck. Not going. Oh, and um, you should totally ignore the fact that I'm armed with a dagger. Because I'm not good with it. And I definitely haven't stabbed anyone."

Another pause. "I'm Lorelei, by the way. No, wait, I meant----I'm...Jen--eeee?" oh, her sister was going to murder her so hard.

[Fox Wilde]

Fox frowned, completely at a loss how to deal with a situation like this. The way she claimed not to have stabbed anyone made it sound very much like she had, and when one had knife wielding stabbers trapped in your dorm room window, what were you supposed to do?

"Um... right..." he said slowly, chewing on his lip for a minute before shrugging and walking over to the window "Well Lorelei-or-Jenny, there's a trick to this..."

He reached out to the window, twisting it in just the right way and shoving it up to release her, one hand darting out almost supernaturally fast to steady her so she didn't fall out of the window (he may not be as gifted as his siblings, but he was definitely stronger and faster than the average human). Gently, he tugged her back inside.

"Please don't stab me." he said first, then realised that he should probably be acting more threatening, she had trespassed on his territory after all. Okay, Raff's territory, but it was his room too. He straightened himself up as best he could and put on a stern expression "I mean, tell me what you were doing here."

[Lorelei Summer-Lac]

"Lorelei-or-Jenny is a really long name, but I could totally see someone around here actually having that for a name..." admitted Lorelei, shrugging as much as one could shrug while still being stuck in a window and all. She tried another wiggle (not a whole lot there), and just noticed as the guy darted forward.

A tug had her stumbling back inside, flailing her arms for a bit. Somehow Lorelei managed to stay upright, though she kept her arms out to hold steady, taking a few breaths and making sure she wasn't about to topple over entirely. Okay, yeah, she could do this.

She nodded.

"I---cleaning?" she tried. "I'm not stabbing; definitely not a stabber. I mean, I do have a dagger. But I don't generally---well, there was that one time I stabbed someone. But that was a duel, and we're probably not gonna duel. So, like, no stabbing. For the moment." Lorelei's brow furrowed, and she realized that (big surprise) she'd lost the plot somewhere...

[Fox Wilde]

"Yea people here have weird names," said Fox, the child named after the literal species his father was. Admittedly the triplets had names that meant wolf, but at least they were actually names, they were proper nouns instead of...uh.. a proper ...noun... okay he wasn't good at English.

He stayed near her as she wobbled, hands half-raised to catch her in case she fell, but she seemed to have managed to keep her balance well enough, so he stepped back to avoid being creepy. If one could be creepy when dealing with intruders who got stuck in your window and then babbled weirdly at you without actually giving their name.
Wait.
"Lorelei or Jenny! Oh, which is it?" she was confusing him quite a lot, so he decided to focus on the simple stuff.