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claude von riegan. ([personal profile] godshattering) wrote in [personal profile] theidlemaiden 2023-07-15 07:26 pm (UTC)

[ This isn't going well. Even though he knew Hilda was heading to the back where he'd abandoned his task in a hurry while intending to make up some excuse for why he was leaving suddenly, Claude's rapidly realizing that once again he's not left with many options of where to go next. It has him stopping behind the shelves where he's still out of sight to scan higher than ground level.

Hilda shows no signs of moving from where she is, so that leaves alternate routes out. There's a couple windows partway up the wall to let the light in, he notes, but they'll require a bit more to get up to them than a simple leave and scurry away. They're not out of the question; it'll just take a bit more planning than, say, walking out the impossibly locked door.

A few more steps bring him closer to the window nearest where he is and Claude studies it and the stacks of items around. Surely at least one of these boxes is sturdy enough to stack on another and have him stand on top of it. The only question which remains is how to do this without Hilda noticing.

He's focusing a bit too hard on the not noticing part since it means when he moves closer yet to consider those existing stacks and whether he really needs anything else at all, Claude forgets to stay out of the main sightlines of the open aisles between the storage, leaving himself in plain view. ]

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