[b][i] – Leroy[/i][/b]

“Hm?” Leroy looked up with surprise as Little Feather suddenly jumped up to her feet and suddenly left the lounge completely. Though he was puzzled, the characteristic smile on his face only grew wider at her sudden actions. His hand subconsciously went to the pocket of his jeans where he had his precious bottles of ink. [i]‘Is that because of the emotions I gave her?’[/i] He wondered.

Now, under any other circumstances, he would have followed Little Feather to continue observing her gradual change for as long as he could however… There was one [s]big[/s]small problem. His smile faltered slightly as he stood up and looked at the path (or lack of one) that she had gone through. “…” Leroy ran his fingers through his hair, wondering how he was going to get back to the student housing let alone follow Little Feather through the dark forest. In hindsight he probably should have left earlier instead of sticking around to the very end of the game.

He decided to just stay the night at the lounge. There was plenty of space indoors if he wanted a little more privacy, and a lot of comfortable furniture around for him to sleep in. He was quite used to just falling asleep in his personal studio on top of a pile of newspapers or just getting knocked out on top of an old couch anyway. In comparison to those, the comfy lounge chairs seemed almost luxurious to fall asleep on.

Lost in his thoughts as he mulled over his options on potential ways to get back to his room without having to walk through the dark or just staying overnight in the lounge area, he accidentally bumped into the leg of a chair, quite hard. “Oops, pardon me.” He immediately said, reaching out with his hand for the girl (Garden) to grab hold of if her balance became compromised. An on-looking would’ve probably been surprised, perhaps even shocked, to see Leroy be able to reply immediately with ease. Anyone else would’ve been hopping around or lying on the floor in pain from stubbing their toe like that but Leroy barely even seemed to have noticed it. “You alright?”