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"The name's Gertrude, sir." She didn't like this man's tone, but she didn't see the need to act in kind. Not yet, anyway. She'd bottle up her discontent and pour it on something else. Something bad.

She was glad the bartender was coming with more coffee. That was definitely one of the better things that happened lately. What with her home collapsing, her friends dying, teleporting into a bar where the doggone chairs exploded, hearing The Voice and all. "Thank you." She helped herself to a cup -- black -- drained it, and headed on her way.

(Exit to The Old King's Labyrinth.)

The elevator was fancy, like most things in the casino, and Rep for the second time that night looked out over the strip as he waited with Melvin for the elevator to head up to the penthouse floor of the building. "I warn you by the way, it's no a wee shower." He said in an offhand sort of way, it was a strange thing to warn someone of but he had his reasons.

There was a chime as the lift stopped at their floor and Rep headed out into the hallway and through the door. The house within was sheer extravagant expense, the reaped rewards of all the pies the Watch had its fingers in. He led the way through to the shower and proved just why he'd warned Melvin beforehand.

It was no conventional shower, housed in a large room with glass - unfrosted - walls. There was no conventional showerhead in sight, the water was sprayed direct from the ceiling and walls of the shower area, backlit with blue light. Just beyond the shower itself there was a roaring fireplace and beyond that lay the master bedroom. It was not a shower that afforded privacy, visible from most places within the house.

"Beggars can't be choosers though" he said. "Get yourself sorted out and we'll see what we can do about getting you clean clothes."

(( Idea of what the shower's like ))

((Entering~))

"Hm."

That was the only sound the doctor made as it returned, a bit dusty with the debris of Silver. Its conclusions were... rather inconclusive, truth be told. It had sustained no great damage nor found any great answers. Just a collection of items, like some sort of ancient and rotting shopping list.

It wondered if that great sign of Protection was anywhere in Harrison's possession.

Rep didn't mind waiting for Melvin, the penthouse was his centre, the seat of power in the kingdom and a place where he felt he could relax. While he waited on him, he sat at one of the computer workstations in an adjoining room - still easy to spot. It was a sprawling blue LED covered behemoth of a PC, and Rep, for whatever reason had hand glued the name ALEX above the six monitors in bling diamonds.

Rep swivelled in the leather chair when he exited the shower and set the machine back to screen saver, apparently the network it ran on was called Selene.

"It's a ******** nice shower." he agreed. "Most s**t's nice up here though. Have you ever seen the view?"

Rep's enthusiasm seemed to kick in at the chance to show off, however small the opportunity may have been. "It's amazing!" he said, and was up from his chair like a shot. He headed out of the penthouse onto the rooftop. "Come see it." The swimming pool was as extravagant as was to be expected, lit up brilliant blue against the night, sprawling right up to the absolute edge of the roof so it looked like the water simply stopped of it's own accord.

He edged around the pool to a seated area with loungers and a clear veiw, spread out directly below was the strip, the huddled casinos and clubs, the neon and clustered screens, the lights dazzling and theirs, from here you could see all the way out to the darker edges of the kingdom, where life wasn't so ideal, and beyond even that to a thin strip of desert that was all the world beyond.

The redhead, normally grim and irritable couldn't keep the massive grin off his face as he took a deep breath of the cool night air. "Worth ******** fighting for right?" he beamed.

Raising a brow Rep looked as if he was thinking about it. "Things are nice though." he said, as if weighing it up. He liked possessions, money was power, money bred envy and respect, it made people jealous and made you attractive. It had a lot going for it. But people had good things to be said for them too. There was sex. Sex, sex and sex. Those were all very important factors in why people mattered in general. Also he needed people to do the things he'd rather not, and to heap him with praise and flattery. A kingdom without people would only be half fun.

"But I guess you are right." he conceded. People were important, some more than others, Harrison, B0nez and Jordan he'd do anything for, he'd let all of this burn for their sakes, as much as he loved it. The rest of the crew were growing on him to various degrees aswell, he felt warmly towards them.

"People are more important like, overall. But they are so much more fragile, it's a shame, blink and they are gone. I try to enjoy them while I have them." his smirk twisted up a little higher. "But that's cute, I appreciate that you'd fight for me, I fight for all the bastards that work for us, whether or not they care."

Jordan's eyebrows lifted slightly. "He took him up to the penthouse?" That was unusually generous of Rep; then again, having Melvin on the verge of a breakdown from dirt wasn't a good thing, and for all that Rep was often selfish, he knew the value of taking care of your people. "All right. Do you need anything, Saliva?"

One of the Silvers had returned - the one that had had to be stopped from bolting. That the man had come back was a good sign, and Jordan studied him. The Silver hadn't yet pledged to Blue, but if he had gone out and retrieved Miasma for them, he might be willing to be recruited. When the man looked his way, Jordan smiled and nodded.

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Upstairs, Ferros stepped out of the elevator and swiped his card in the reader beside the apartment's door. As he entered, he called out, "It's me. Ferros," in case anyone was in the house; Rep had been known to pull claws or firearms on unannounced visitors, and Ferros hadn't seen the red-haired man downstairs.