watch your kids [korado]

Kabe didn't feel very comfortable wandering around the tuffle capital, and you could tell that very plainly. He had a cloak thrown over his usual gear, with his hood drawn up and his eyes shifting back and forth pretty regularly - suspicious behavior anywhere, but doubly so when you're of the same species as the enemy nation from a war that'd just ended. And with the short stature of the tuffles, he was having trouble finding his insectoid kin in the crowd.

After circling the block he'd lost him on a few times, Kabe turned into a darker alleyway, still dully illuminated by the buzzing neon lights making out tuffle text that Kabe couldn't really understand. "Bee!" He half-whispered a shout into the alley, his hand beside his mouth to carry the sound forward. "Get back here!"

He waited a second, listening for anything- skittering in the dark, nervous shuffling, etc. But all he was met with was silence, backed by the muffled rush of a busy metropolis beyond the boundaries of the alley.

Drat.

He scolded himself for letting his eye off of the kid while he'd been browsing the market, and quietly considered the benefits of getting one of those child harnesses made to keep track of his little double. Turning into another alley, and making his way down, he stopped in his tracks at the sound of clattering metal and glass. He reared his head, spotting a small figure rummaging through the garbage behind a building. Beakers, vials, some old machinery and a lot of waste.

"Get out of that trash, kid!" Kabe called, knowing full well to expect what happened next- which was that as he sternly held his finger up, he watched Kay Bee slowly scoop a handful of glass and scrap up, dip it in goop, and gulp it down like a child caught eating the last cookie before leaping in through a window into the building behind. "Hey- ah, fuck."

Sourly, he huffed and approached the back door, knocking on it in order to get the attention of the owner, hoping that Kay Bee wasn't causing too much havok on the inside.

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Korado