[Gift] sneaking around w/ Celestite!

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"Hey.....hey, Celestite, get up..." There was gentle nudging from one side of the bun's body, but she hardly wanted to respond to it. Frankly, she was so tired, she'd sleep through a house fire if given the chance. And it wasn't just for pure laziness, she defiantly had been skimping on sleep lately.

"Mmmgr.." Celestite didn't quite make a fully formed word, but the disgruntled sound was enough to get across that she wasn't happily waking up. Especially since it seemed Jackal wouldn't knock it off anytime soon.

And even in her half-asleep state, Celestite knew it was Jackal waking her - Misty would apologize for making a mouse of a sound in the mornings practically.

"C'mon, I need your help with something..." And with that, the bun mentally groaned but tried to sit up and force herself awake a bit more. Rubbing her eyes now, Jackal looked almost impatient... and worried slightly. What was going on?

"Is something wrong..?" Celestite yawned, and stretched, realizing she was still in bun form. Well, no matter, she was cozy at least.

"Well.. I think Mercy is hiding something, we haven't gotten any answers from the church at all. And everytime I pester them for the feather back, they make up a new excuse." Now that the bun thought about it, Jackal did seem to come home disgruntled and with no new information whenever she checked in with the church. "I think we need to go see for ourselves what they're hiding."

Celestite yawned again, being much too tired for all this. "Mm... are you wanting an assistant of sorts?" At that, Jackal's smile grew wide, so the bun already knew the answer.

"Why, of course." And with that, the bun decided to shift back to doll form and get ready for the day. It was a bit difficult to understand what Jackal was planning outloud, seeing as Celestite still had just woken up and was quite tired. But she tried to listen to the other's various planned routes.

And it wasn't long before said plans lead them to Mercy's office door. It felt a little exhilarating, though mostly nerve-wracking, to be breaking and entering like this. Granted, Jackal had a keen hand when it came to picking locks, but the fumbling for a moment or two made Celestite so nervous.

"Is-is it working..?" She asked Jackal, fiddling with her hooves a bit. She kept looking over her shoulder, checking to see if their distraction failed at any point.

But after just a moment longer, a 'click' is heard, and it seems the lock-picking succeeded!

"Yes!" Jackal exclaims quietly, as they both head inside. "Oh no-" The sheer amount of disorganized piles puts both of them aback slightly. But Jackal quickly closes the office door, and starts to get to work. "You take that side of the room, I'll take this one. Let's try to hurry though!"

"Okay!" Celestite walks over to a filing cabinet and begins rummaging around. There's such an assortment of things though, that it was hard to decipher what would be useful to them or not. Anything from donation logs, to envy-bun paperwork, to budgeting paperwork and receipts.

"Find anything yet?" Jackal seemed a bit stumped herself, coming over to you and helping you look. There didn't seem to be any evidence of the feather they were looking for mainly, or any sort of information on what Mercy had thought it was.

"I- I don't even know, there's so much here.." The two of them start in new cabinets though, hoping there's different files and not just continuations of the same ones. Fairly soon though, it seems Celestite finds something unique.

Celestite holds up the file, as it glowed from the inside somehow it seemed. Jackal followed them to the desk, where they both opened it and practically got blinded by the surprise within. It was a feather, like the one they had found of course. But.. different... it was glowing?

Suddenly, there were footsteps in the hallway. And without thinking, Jackal grabbed the feather, stuffed the file back into the cabinet, and made an escape. Thankfully the window behind the desk was already unlocked, with Jackal seeming to hop out of it faster that expected.

She whisper-yelled for Celestite to hop out too, though she got a bit of fear-shock, and simply stood there filled with anxiety. It took until Jackal grabbed her hand and yanked her partway through the window, to actually escape.

And just in time as well, as they would have been suspiciously noticed if not. Mercy's door opened with a small creak, and a huff was heard through the window they both were standing nearby. Their bodies pressed to the wall, they both quietly wondered if Mercy suspected anything.

But with her seeming to fall back into paperwork, they both sprint home. Neither was sure what this feather meant, and were just hoping it'd jog Misty's memory.