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Sean remained silent and still, katana still at the ready as she floated off to do whatever it is that Pendari did. After she was out of sight and sound for a few seconds, he quietly followed her, his years of training in how to sneak about ((And it was when he was a kid, pilfering cookies in a house with particularly creaky floor boards, not some lame ninja rape-you-in-the-spincter training.)) playing into his favor.

((Lol to the spintcer/sphincter, whatever that is. Call the vent 15, 20 feet off the floor? I'm assuming the ceiling height is higher and lower than that depending where you are in the engine area, but A.C. couldn't manage a much bigger drop than that too easily, street kid or no. ED, A.C. and Jarred are in different areas now... I think the spider is going to have to pick one. XD))

A.C. continued to move deeper into the equipment and shadows, a silent flash of color only if you were looking in the right direction, but she was around a corner from Jarred and moving away from the main entrance as well--just in case he had friends. She was fairly sure there hadn't been time to set an ambush deeper in, not when they couldn't know ahead of time that she would be here. If that many people had slipped in over the past couple hours, she would have known.

Besides, she thought, holding back a cough from the lingering gas, no one comes here. No one knows this place like I do--they would have to have 50 of those big guys to cover it half as well. Right? @#^%, I'm gonna be sick again...

Puking didn't bother A.C. usually, so long as it was quiet and not in front of her whole gang (unless it was supposed to be), but she was afraid the noise and the need to stop for it would allow them to find her. She puked all the time from various illnesses, poisons, and bad food back home, so she had never noticed the gas...

"s**t." Jarred muttered to himself.
"Who was supposed to be killing her? Betrayer or something?" He grumbled as he pulled himself back up into the vent, waiting for the headrush to pass. He lowered himself down the opening, holding on with his hands. He began to swing his body back and forth, gaining the momentum to land on a large stack of boxes, minimizing the fall, and let himself down from there. He quickly pulled out his gun, and moved towards the sound of the shot.

((there cameras down here?))

((I thought she was trying to get away from Jarred, not Pen, but ah well. And yes, there are cameras down here.))

Pen rolled the body over and stripped it of wallet and anything that could possibly identify the man. She slipped them into a pouch strapped to her side, already gathering a collection.

((It's the residue gas that killed off the crew in the engine room, the bodies are probably still around in the area. It shouldn't bee too big a deal so long as no one's feeling overly sick.))

A spider squiggled into the body on the floor, and in a moment blood and ooze leaked from the crevices of the corpse's head. "Pity," Pendari said quietly. The orb next to her beeped quietly. "Keep watch for whatever else is down here, use the spiders as your eyes. They should have scouted out the area well enough by now."

(( xd no worries, I'm too spacey to even catch an obvious clue these days.))

Pendari took a position in the middle of the engine room, sending a signal to Sean to join her. She waited with the orb, to see if the various spiders would pick up anything unusual. She had limited time, very limited time, and the stress of it was evident in the thin line of her mouth, and the slight ticking in the corner of her lip every minute or so. Her plan was special, newly drawn, and very fragile. Something could tear it apart with the touch of a feather, and she didn't want that, none of them wanted that whether they knew it or not.

Unfortunately for Jarred, the mouse would probably escape him this time.

A.C. blacked out at the other end of the crawlspace while attempting to open the exit hatch. In the end, she didn't have the strength to do it and hold off the effects of the gas.

Lanita Theiser was seated against the wall opposite the hatch, waiting, and when the girl passed out she got up and opened it herself. She pulled her "little sister" out, lifted her over her shoulder in a fireman's carry, and walked away down a hallway where Pendari's orb had knocked out all the cameras.

"Trust you to be crawling around exactly where I warned you never to go. Last time I trust you to follow orders, that's for sure. Street kid's have honor like the ACO didn't blow up that Forman planet around Beta Nine..."

((Spiders are all over the place, so highly likely, yes.))