Fortunately for Horus, he had work and could ditch detention for the evening. But he did have to go the next day because he didn't have work to use as an excuse.
Miss Sadie Richardson worked Horus like a dog after hearing that he had another detention. As her own form of punishment, the old woman made Horus sort all of the new cards. Then she made him start stocking the shelves, all the heavy stuff that she couldn't handle herself because it would strain her back.
By the time that Horus got off work around five thirty, his hands hurt and he was exhausted. Who knew it took so much effort to run a card store? It took all of Horus' remaining effort to drag himself to his dorm and open his door. But all of his exhaustion vanished the second he saw someone in the room already. Randy wasn't supposed to be back from detention yet. Besides, the intruder was much larger than the tiny Slifer.
And Horus thought that he was hallucinating at first. Maybe he was too tired. Because the person in his room was a duel monster. A half-dragon/human hybrid. What was it called? Yubel.
She was sitting on Horus' bed, staring silently at the object in her clawed hands almost mournfully, apparently oblivious to Horus' entrance. He blinked, and she was gone. But the thing she was holding onto wasn't.
Curious and reasonably freaked out, Horus walked forward in a bit of a trance and picked up the boxy thing that Yubel had been holding. It was one of his tapes!
Horus checked the side of it, sure that Cady had put the movie back last night, but maybe she forgot. "Jaden Yuki vs. Zane Truesdale?" he read aloud. That was definitely not the tape he was watching last night. Horus already dismissed Yubel as an exhaustion-induced hallucination, but how had the tape gotten out? Maybe there really was an intruder, but who?
A monstrous yawn interrupted his thoughts and Horus shrugged and put the old video back into place under one of the loose floorboards before collapsing onto his matress and falling unconscious.