Breaks and ladders [OPEN/active]

[omnomnomsweets]

Characters: Break, Syrup, and anyone at all!
Setting: The basement- the unfinished part with the constructiony things
Time: Day 20
Summary: Break is not a carpenter. He has a rabbit. These things happen sometimes.
Warnings: None.

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[is_not_number1]

Although Mello had been quite content to spend the entire day sleeping at first, it didn't take very long at all for him to change his mind. Days lasted forever around here, and it wasn't like he could just lie around doing nothing for an entire week. Even if the fact that the Observatory was air-conditioned did make it a nice room to spend time in, there was just nothing to do there; it was just too quiet a room, and he'd grown bored.

After having rested, he found himself in the mood to explore the house again. He wasn't entirely sure what he was hoping to gain-- he'd been stuck here for... he didn't even know how long it had been anymore, but at least a few months, and he knew the house quite well-- but there was always a chance that he'd find something he hadn't yet noticed. The house was, after all, enormous

[omnomnomsweets]

Break looked up as Mello entered. He briefly considered chasing him out-- he had admittedly been avoiding him since the incident in the basement, out of embarrassment more than anything else-- but decided against it. He had business with Mello after all, so he would have to see him again sooner or later. The bit about the pet rabbit was ignored (he would hate to encourage this beast to stick around) but he did stand up to greet Mello, brushing bits of sawdust off his shirt.

"There is a tower in the basement," he said by way of explanation. "Someone wants us to stay out of it. And so I figured--" it was at this point that he leaned on the Franken-ladder. It didn't take very well to being leaned on; it gave a great moan as a crooked and badly placed nail split one of the legs. He stopped his explanation long enough to scowl at the offending nail and then turned back to Mello, his smile considerably more strained.

"I don't suppose you have any experience with carpentry?"

[is_not_number1]

Mello narrowed one eye in some mix of uncertain curiosity and surprise. He'd nearly forgotten about that tower in the basement; he'd found it a few times, but had never been there very often. From what he remembered, it was pretty deep into the tunnels; those damn tunnels were close enough to impossible to reliably navigate. He wasn't even entirely sure he knew where they ended. In any case, though...

"That tower's pretty high, isn't it...?" He crossed the room to where Break was with his excellent display of carpentry and reached out a hand to examine the nail that had caused it to fall, before wiggling it slightly and looking up to give Break a rather hopeless grin. "You'd be best off without actually trying to climb that thing, now." And it was probably quite a good thing that Break didn't seem to be intent on doing so at the moment.

"Me?" He shook his head, smirking doubtfully. "Dunno. Do you think I look like I've got a clue about this sorta thing, Xerxes?"

[omnomnomsweets]

Break swatted at Mello's hand. Not that he could possibly do any more damage than Break had already done, but it was his failure, and if Mello could do no better than he had no right to criticise.

“I wouldn’t know. You don’t look like you’ve got a clue about much of anything, but you’ve surprised me before.” If there was an edge of anger in his voice, it was more out of frustration than any problem with Mello; he was just a convenient target.

“In any case, if you've got a better to get up to the top, I'd love to hear it. A flying machine? Plant a tree from the greenhouse and wait for it to grow very very tall? Or perhaps if we hope hard enough, the tower will just shrink! Wouldn't that be lovely? --Shoo!"

He shook his leg to chase off Syrup, who had been nuzzling his boots.

[is_not_number1]

Slightly startled, Mello defensively pulled his hand away from the ladder and opted to put it in his pocket instead. He'd been rather taken aback by Break's reaction, as he had never seen Break this snappy before, and had not been expecting such an irritated response. He paused for a moment in uncertainty, raising an eyebrow as if only to acknowledge his surprise, before deciding to make no comment. Whatever Break's problem was at the moment was probably nothing he needed to know.

"Well, then," he said, his tone just a bit more vexed than it had previously been. "You won't have to be surprised now, because I haven't got a bloody clue about carpentry, and I don't exactly have any better ideas about the tower. Unless maybe... you coat that rabbit's paws in super-glue, tie it to a long rope, swing it up so it sticks to the side of the tower, and then use it to pull yourself up