Breaking and Housebreaking
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By Limewah
18+

At thirty paces from his door, Kodi could tell his home was being rummaged through. Again.
He could tell his lock had been picked, and the door was just a millimetre ajar. He noticed details like that.
Something about his home, being as close as it was to Icarus’ Skydock, made it a prime target for pirates and thieves looking for an easy score on their way in or out. His house wasn’t even that nice, aside from its century-old facade. And he didn’t keep anything valuable there anyway.
The steel-blue wolfdog rolled his yellow eyes and sighed, reaching into his shoulder-bag and removing his work goggles. He strapped them over his face as he came to the door, whistling nonchalantly (and quite loudly) as he swung it open.
He heard the footsteps, caught a glimpse of a bare blue rabbit foot just ducking out of sight across the hall. There were a good few hiding spots in the dining area. Particularly the decoys the wolfdog had left here and there. There was a very spacious cabinet in one corner that only had a couple of coats hanging up in it. The perfect hiding place for someone who didn’t know how used to burglaries their owner was. 

Kodi kicked off his boots as he made his way towards that cabinet. He needed to keep a safe enough distance, of course - there was no telling if the brigand was armed, or, for that matter, ready to strike as soon as the door opened.
He turned the lenses of his goggles clockwise. A soft click brought them to humming life, allowing him to confirm that, yes, there was an outline of a warm figure - definitely a rabbit - curled inside. From the smeared shape of body heat, it didn’t look as though they were armed. Still…
He turned the dial on the goggles over another level, and saw a tell tale swirl at the peripheries of his vision. From there, he took a curved walking stick from the corner, one that was there as an ornament more than anything else. He hooked it around the door, and then swung it wide.

The other door burst open as the blue-furred rabbit leapt out with a yell. He was quite imposingly tall - it was surprising he even fit. He was dressed quite finely for a thief, too, with a rakish black coat that matched his shaggy mane of hair, and a crisp white cravat, the sort a captain of a ship might wear. He had a serrated cutlass with a sapphire hilt at the ready, too, and his blue eyes were fixated on Kodi’s. 
His expression was set and focused… but only for a moment. As he stared into Kodi’s eyes - and the swirling patterns of orange and yellow flowing through the goggles’ lenses - his face visibly relaxed into one of confused fascination.
“Put that down, please,” Kodi said, his voice low and soft, his paws raised and outstretched. “You don’t need it.”
“Hnnh..?” the rabbit grunted, his eyebrows knitting inwards before relaxing again, slowly blinking as his eyes took on a slightly dull, glazed sheen.
“Put it down,” Kodi repeated. And the rabbit obeyed this time. The cutlass slipped from his hand and vanished in a little crackle of electric light that made Kodi jump slightly. But he didn’t interrupt his eye contact with the thief, taking a step closer. The rabbit remained still, fascinated by the warm beams of colour bathing his face.

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