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*Yesterday wasn't so bad. There was the whole bar brawl with the townie cop to keep him occupied. It almost didn't feel like he was/is trapped. The bar was amusing him. All was good. Today though, today is different. Today he wants to go running. He wants to do a roof run...only there's no roof to run...heck, there's not even space to run. He reaches into his bag for a jump rope...only Mike didn't pack his jumprope. No weights either.

He's going to go insane, he just knows it.

It's okay, it's okay. It's a test. He passes tests. Never as well as he could if he actually tried, but trying to see how close he can get to failing, without actually failing. Just because he can.
His hands shake, as the walls close in. He has to get out of this room. This bare and empty room.
A shower. A shower will help.

Raph picks up a towel, the canister of Comet and heads for the communal staff showers. Thankfully, there's no one there to greet him. He's in no mood for greetings right now.
The Comet burns his eyes, but he doesn't care...at least it's something. Burning is still something. And right now, he's got a world full of nothing. He'll take all the something he can get.

The room doesn't clean up after him the way his tent did. It doesn't wash his laundry, or make his bed...er cot. This keeps Raph's mind and hands occupied for a while, but when those tasks are done, the stir crazy sets in again.

Food. A drink. Those'll help.
As he exits his room off the Staff hallway, he grabs his sai and a pack of throwing knives.
There's always darts... and maybe a rafter run....it won't be the same, but it'll be something.*