#reddi

While sitting on one of the benches scattered around, his legs pulled up and crossed, Reddi was pointing at some of the cabin doors in front of him, muttering to himself.

"Anderson couple. Guy with the beard. Empty. Hm..."

Right after coming on board, he'd gone straight to the front desk to ask for a map of the ship layout. What they provided him with was the rudimentary map for guests, outlining the most important locations they would frequent. This was a fine start, but it didn't list cabin details, staff rooms, what to find behind which door.

So Reddi had been doing that work himself to be in the know of what exactly the ship carried in its innards. He'd wandered the engine rooms (they were SO loud), he'd gotten lucky and been given a tour through the bridge, checked a few rooms that were unlocked, some that were locked but not tightly. No big deal. He just wanted to look.

By now, he had also gotten a good grasp of which cabin belonged to which guest. A chunk of that detail had already been pushed from his memory - it simply wasn't important to keep all of that in mind - but no matter, his curiosity had already been sated so the info could fly wherever it wanted for all he cared. A few rooms, however, kept him coming back. This was one of them.

He knew somebody was in there. He could hear shuffling, breathing and a heartbeat, yet no talking or the kind of noises that would usually come from an occupied cabin. Nobody exited during meal times, events, times when guests were likely to come in and out and where he'd been able to catch most other people. The temptation to just unlock the door like a bunch of the others was immense, but he'd already been chased from at least two rooms and any more transgressions would surely get him kicked off at the next harbour.

And suddenly he was sitting in darkness. Not that it mattered, he saw everything regardless - but that was strange. He blinked and looked around, noticing the by now familiar interior of a cabin, concluding that he was still on the ship. It wasn't his own room though. Weird. Did he teleport? Had he been able to do that the whole time and just didn't know? Something to figure out later.

That's when his attention finally turned to the person with the thumping heartbeat in front of him.