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She grabbed Abolish’s wrist and towed him out the door, giggling as Scott wiggled his fingers at them. The door shut with a thump behind them, and Shelby yanked Abolish behind a house very stealthily.
“Shelbs-“
“Okay here’s the plan,” she whispered dramatically, cutting him off, “we’re going to sneak in and, super stealthily, steal Ren’s gramophone.” She pointed at the tavern across the road. Abolish sighed.
“I just- you know what. Okay.” He muttered. She smiled evilly, she knew he would agree, Abolish was exactly the kind of person to begrudgingly commit crimes.
She grabbed his wrist again and dragged him across the road and ducked behind the tavern. She gestured that he should go in and distract everyone while she went in a window and grabbed the gramophone. And then they would both very dramatically escape out of the door and back into their house. Abolish just stared at her blankly.
“Shelby I don’t have any idea what any of-“ he waved his hands in a poor imitation of her advanced communication technique, “-that meant.” She sighed.
“Just go in there and distract them.” She huffed. He regarded her skeptically but didn’t say anything.
(He knew better by this point.)
She waved him forward and he sighed, and then went around into the tavern. She heard him begin talking. The plan is going according to plan, she thinks. She scuttles along the outside of the tavern until she reaches the back window. She shoves it open, and scrambles for a moment to get up high enough to climb in. She finally manages to get a leg in, and promptly falls in. She lands on her stomach with a thud. She hears Abolish make a very funny noise but no one looks at her. She surreptitiously creeps along the wall behind everyone.
(It’s morning, so it’s really just Martyn, Sausage and Apo. And Ren, obviously.)
She grabs the gramophone super carefully. She hefts it awkwardly in her arms. She gives Abolish a look, and Abolish looks at her like a man who has just seen death incarnate.
“Miss Shelby! What are you doing with that?” Ren yelps from somewhere behind the counter, but Shelby is already making a bolt for the door. Apo makes a strangled noise behind her and someone else snorts. Then she’s out the door, and somehow manages to grab Abolish’s wrist as she passes, hauling him out with her. They sprint for the house and Abolish fumbles slightly to get the door open. The door closes behind them heavily and Shelby drops the gramophone onto the table with a soft thud. She nods sagely as she surveys it.
“Come on! Let’s go show Scott!” She says with a grin, dragging Abolish with her once again.