#ran-eru

     A memento from another time, the only special, captured moment left from the life they once spent together, had floated through the air in a furious gust of wind and became lost in an unforgiving sea of bodies where trampling over precious things happened all the time. In a panic, he'd chased it, and collided with many strangers much taller than him, and as a result became even less aware of the photograph's location. Like a child caught in overpowering waves, he'd become lost at sea.

     So much for the panic approach. For now, he's travelling quickly but cautiously-- dipping in, out, and around the groups of people as fast as possible to cover as much ground as he could in the shortest time possible.

     No good -- he was finding himself gasping for breath with zero results. His knees began to bend, palms pressing against the caps to push them straight and give him rest.

     "Come on, it's gotta be around here somewhere... Did somebody take it?" Pink optics scanned the area for any possible sign, when just on time, no one more surprising than the final swimmer of their high school team had showed up among the crowd of people. The blond was overjoyed at the sight of his classmate, but was plagued with the heavy heart of loss.

     Honestly, you’d expect there to be more fun, exciting adventures in store for you, suddenly being pulled from your own universe and dropped into one completely unrecognizable and apparently many, many years far into the future, but nope! Nothing new! Other than all the new inventions, of course, but Alois quickly grew tired of messing around with each and every one of them—and after breaking a few, although his pride would never let him admit his mistakes while observing everything.

     “Well, if there’s nothing interesting heading my way might as well entertain myself on my own! God, why didn’t they bring Claude along to do all the dirty work for me? I’m a bloody noble, damn it,” he muttered under his breath with a scowl as he strolled through what was apparently a supermarket? A strange structure, really, although the blond supposed it was quite convenient, since you didn’t have to travel throughout town to get all of your groceries and other goods, them all being placed in one building and all.

     Really, though, what was there to do in a place like this? Nothing was happening! The only mildly eventful thing that had happened since entering this weird location was when some shady man happened to trigger loud alarms—ones which Alois cowered from terribly, writhing in his heavy clothing, wishing desperately Claude or Hannah were here to comfort him—as he exited the area. Apparently he’d been caught trying to steal? What convenient devices! The boy smirked to himself. Hah, what a petty crime. Humiliating, really! Alois would never stoop so low as to commit such an act, being better than all these filthy people.

     The student grinned as what he perceived to be an absolutely clever idea bubbled up in his mind. He took what was known as a camera he found being displayed, the device shiny, expensive, and newly released with a whole bunch of fancy features that of course was not understood by the blond—but will be, he assures! Slipping it into some kid his age’s pocket, Alois exited the door with a smirk tugging at his lips, a laugh promptly spilling out of him as the alarms sounded, cuing security. How humiliating!