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After that, it's not too much trouble to leave the helmet by a rear window there, and then stretch yourself up to reach the rooftop and make for a chimney. It's not ideal since you get dirty in the process of dropping down the chimney, but you'd rather just avoid any risk of alarmed doors altogether when you so easily can. Then once inside, opening that same window from within and retrieving the helmet.
<span class="mu-b">"Wow... this actually <span class="mu-i">is</span> a nice place. Me and dad ought to be here, not that dump we've been in ever since..."</span>
On cushioned soles and without any loose clothing, you slink about the sizeable luxury home without making much sound at all. Like a shadow moving through that fancy abode, a jealous and elastic shadow with villainous intent. For awhile even you get lost in just wandering about and having yourself a tour of the place in the dark, muttering in envious contempt under your breath. Eventually though you do find your way to what must be Kovacs's office or study, a stately little library with leather chairs and a desk with a computer. The guy even has a big portrait of his family on the wall above the fireplace... oh, so he has two kids. Who you assumed to be his wife, you already saw while observing the place but now you get the full picture, in both senses.
<span class="mu-b">"Ah damn, those computer skills would really come in handy right now-"</span>
<span class="mu-g">"-are you in there Maria? What are you doing up so late?"</span>
Your focus had been on the computer, so that when you hear an approaching voice you bang into the desk startled. Till now you'd been navigating the house carefully with just a pocket flashlight, but the blue-white illumination from the large computer screen (different from the orange glow of the low fire) might be noticeable in the dark house to anyone outside the office. You recognize the voice though as Leonard's himself, probably believing his young daughter to be up late and messing around in his study, coming to investigate.
By instinctive panic, your immediate response is to hide underneath the desk. However it quickly occurs to you that this is about the best possibility you could have hoped for; to be able to sneak into Kovacs's house otherwise undetected, to be able to encounter him alone and here of all places, and unprepared at that. Maybe you don't want to strike a pose upon his desk for when he enters, displaying your villainous presence, but certainly you could target him however you want once he enters in a few moments.
>Continue to hide, wait until he's close enough to make a surprise move against, or perhaps he'll just leave?
>Position yourself to encounter him, see if you can't resolve this with words... but ready to attack if you need to.
>Fly straight to violence! Whatever you intend to do, will happen after you've beaten him to submission.
>Actually... you will strike a pose! Be there standing or sitting, awaiting your prey with villainous intent!
>A devilish write-in?
