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WHO: Courage, Edgeworth
WHERE: Outside of Edgeworth's apartment complex
WHEN: Backdated to March 28th
WARNINGS: Nothing really.
SUMMARY: Courage is trying to save another stray
FORMAT: Starting with semi-paragaph, but it might evolve into something else

It was early morning, the sun's rays were just rising above the horizon and the sounds of traffic weren't too loud yet since it was Saturday. Most of the City was trying to sleep in and forget the world. A few people would never get their deserved sleep though.

Unfortunately, the growling and barking from the alley was more than loud enough to wake up anyone who was too close to the place either by street location or by their room location. The momentary high pitched scream did nothing to help ease anyone back to sleep either.

Courage came darting out of the alley's entrance and hid behind the wall for a second; trying to catch his breath before he looked back at the knocked over trashcans and the dog behind them. Those had gotten knocked over when the dog freaked out. Courage had only meant to pick the dog up, but he didn't seem like he appreciated the effort. In fact, the dog seemed to have gotten a bit angry because of it. While lashing out the dog hurt his would be rescuer.

Courage had a few minor scratches on his face and around his shoulders, but was fine other than that. True, he was a little panicked, but that was normal for him at this point. Looking stressed and feeling stressed probably didn't help with the dog at all though.

"I'm sorry, look I know, I know that was a bad idea and I know you probably don't like me right now, but I have got to get you out of here," Courage said watching the other dog as he slipped further away into the darkness, trying to hide itself amongst the forgotten things there, "Oh come on, don't be like that. If only I could get some help, you're in big trouble here you know..."

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He was on the way to the library at the time, meaning to research both the legality of medically-induced comas for the incredibly dangerous, and the punishments already in existence for animal murderers. It would be best to get there before the City proper woke and went about its business--he had no intention of getting caught in whatever that day's storm of horrors would end up being.

As came closer to the alley, he noticed a scratched-up young man talking to something in the alley--almost as if there were someone in there he himself couldn't see. Concerned, hoping that someone hadn't been hurt--hoping that the other wasn't responsible for that injury if they were--he walked briskly towards the stranger.

"You there," he said, gruffly. "Is everything all right?"

He jumped a little bit when he heard the man. Honestly, he hadn't been expecting someone to show up while he was talking to to the stray. At least the stranger wasn't a monster.

"Uh, I just," he said as he stood up a little straighter and pointed down the alley,"there's a dog back there. I-I scared him a little bit, but I really need to get him out of there. I don't know what'll happen if he stays. I'm just, I'm worried since a lot of animals are being killed."

He gulped a little bit and looked down the alley again. He could hear the dog moving farther back and for a moment whined since he could tell the brown dog was getting himself underneath something and it probably wasn't something easy to move.

"Oh, he's going to get stuck in there and get hurt and I'm the one who made go back there. Auuuh. I need to get him out of there."

Nervously Courage started moving back into the place, looking around at everything like he was expecting something to go wrong. He even looked back at the strange man, almost like he was expecting him to suddenly do something nasty while he had his back turned. It wasn't like he'd be shocked if he did at this point.

Edgeworth peered down the alley but couldn't see anything--clearly, the other man had better vision than he did. Of course he did; what a stupid thought that was. He wore glasses. Most people had better vision than he did.

He pushed them up with a finger and frowned, thinking. He had business to attend to, but--helping the innocent didn't just mean human beings, then, did it? Surely there was time for this. The poor fellow seemed so distraught, and he'd had a point about the rampant destruction of animal life as of recent...

Edgeworth followed the stranger curiously, and quietly, wondering if there were anything he might be able to do do be of assistance.

He did so miss Pess.

"May I be of some help?" he asked, quietly, hoping not to frighten the alleged dog any more than had already been done.

That surprised Courage. He knew the City was full of heroes, but someone offering him help on something, especially helping with a stray animal, was unusual to say the least. It wasn't so unusual that he couldn't form a reply in a few seconds though.

"I, uh, yeah I'm sure you can. Can you go around the other side of him?" he asked, trying to remain as quiet as the man was. "I think if we can get him on both sides he won't be able to get away too quickly, hopefully not at all."

Courage kept himself from trying to trust or like the man too much from just this one act of kindness. He didn't know him too well after all, but that didn't mean that Courage was about to show him unkindness. In fact, if the other looked over at all he would see a small smile of appreciation for the act all the same.