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its me debz
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 8:22 pm


Kostya stared back, unblinking.

At the tower, even if you weren't. Another reminder that he was always...indisposed when significant world events happened. It was almost like a gift.

"That is alternative idea," he agreed, "but can not write off that there is more." Kostya looked back at the wreckage, and disagreed.

A coat splattered with red and a manic smile, and a near-breathless confession of she's dead, she's dead. Before Kostya had known that Caelius had dealt the blow, he'd offered to conceal the body.

He would, this time, too. If he needed to.

Do what is necessary.

"Because of vhat Deus vould do, if they find out?"

Rejam
PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 8:30 pm


"Yes. Because of what we'd do. We'd take care of it," he answered immediately. We. "We'd do what was right.

"But it doesn't matter. She didn't do this. I was just--agreeing--you're right, if she'd done this, it wouldn't be her, but I just--don't think she did, aside from--from defending herself. Because Randall and Bernice are up there and they know this is here, obviously--surely they know--"

He hesitated, and he looked at Syntax's menacing gleam, and abruptly Fionnghal's runes were spilling pale, dappled sunlight over the floor.

"They know," he repeated. And they left us unattended. His earlier concerns of what are they doing right now came back full force, attended by thoughts of the power going out to the elevator.

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its me debz
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:17 pm


Syntax laughed at Taym's words, because he was a child and because he was linked inextricably with Kostya's kind. How silly, he said, communicated in the form of pulsating emojis and ascii characters, How silly he is. Game over! It'd be game over, but not for her. Not for us, too!

"They know," Kostya agreed, and wondered who else might be left. Who else knew too. Were there other bodies, too? Would they find hers a little down the line?

Always a possibility.

"Do we go on? Or do ve go back, because this is this vhat they did not vant us to see?"

rejam
PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:11 pm


"It just seems to me more and more likely," said Taym after a long pause, running his thumb back and forth over the bronze antlers branching over his fingers, "that we're going to run into trouble if we go back up, if they don't just kill the elevator halfway back and get rid of us that way. But I don't know what the ******** else we're supposed to do. What if she got loose without her pendant and she's out in the woods somewhere? ********' hell." He raked his free hand through his hair uneasily although he did not, to his credit, go so far as to say: this was your idea, a*****e.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:34 pm


There is a hot pink sticky note on a nearby wall.

Quote:

↑ long way back (pretty clear!)
↓ dead end!!
↱ shortcut back (be careful!)
↴ CITY!!!


The last was written with a different color pen, in an excited, careless scrawl.


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cherno astra
PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:38 pm


"Ve are on same page, in that note. They have out for us, if this is vhat they have done. Ve know too much."

He approached the sticky note, like so many more before it, and looked.

"There is a vay back, but also vay to city. I vant to see it." She was so, so excited about the maze itself-- she had to have been ecstatic. "But vhat do you think?"

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:43 pm


Taym, very quietly, lost his ******** the ******** city. ******** your ******** curiosity. ******** your ******** wanting to see it. America Jones was put into a situation where she had to ******** kill someone, and someone else has her phone and we have no ******** clue if she's dead or alive or where she might be and your reaction is I want to see it. <******** your ******** city. We're going back, or we can find the safest, most secure place we can to camp until Otto and Peyton and Edith crash their party. No ******** telling if she actually wrote that or if that's part of their plan.

"Either way I figure we've got minimum two Hunters to face. Four of them are out of the picture as threats, so the most we're going to be walking into, unless they've called backup from somewhere, is six. I don't ******** know if I can take six hunters but you've got range on your weapon and I'd rather try than go and see, ******** hell, Bashmet, have you lost your goddamned mind? What the ******** are you thinking?"

cherno astra
PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:52 pm


Kostya waited it out, patient and bored. It was easier, to focus on this. To distill what knowledge he had into probabilities that were, in fact, little more than wild guesses in the dark.

"Okay," he said. For all they thought the same, on processes and immediate actions, the pair of them drew quite different conclusions.

Boris looked much more like a victim than a perpetrator, and from what he'd gleaned from America, he seemed... not the type.

But, he supposed, withholding a bark of laughter, you couldn't trust anyone to be what they said they were. He'd be hypocritical to do so. Kostya's memory was good, but they had spent a great while navigating in the maze. He was 87% certain that he could guide them both back to where they had started from-- and, perhaps, Obadiah remembered it better-- but that was not a 100% guarantee.

Think, Konstantin.

Think.

Where would she have run? Maye Obadiah was correct, and she was in the woods. But, still, he was drawn to the city.

"To call it curiosity belittle it," Kostya said, "but can have debate later. I think she is there. But, have no logical explanation for thinking it. So am yielding. Do ve take vay back vay ve came, or follow directions from the sticky note? Or do ve stay down here, until Edith and Otto and Peyton come?"

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 11:19 pm


"I need a little more than a gut feeling to go plunging into some unknown ruin that they have two days' worth of experience over us with, and if she isn't--if she did get away it's America, she would have made straight for the outdoors; that's where she knows how to survive," he said, more decisively than he felt. "We shouldn't have come down here to begin with. We have ******** to go on but a post-it note, but whatever, let's go by the post-it note."

And he headed off down the path marked "clear," but he hesitated, and turned, and said frankly: "I don't trust us not to walk straight into a half-dozen traitors. This is going to end in a fight."



cherno astra
PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 11:24 pm


While Obadiah spoke, Kostya took pictures of the scene before them. No signal, sure, but better to have the evidence than not.

He didn't agree that coming down to the maze had been a mistake, but if it had, at least it would not be without evidence. Sparing one last look down the path that (supposedly) led to the city, Kostya turned to follow Taym.

"Traitors vould be the best possible outcome of enemy to see," Kostya said, equally as frank.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 11:34 pm


The way back was uneventful, and the elevator was still there, still working.



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cherno astra
PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 11:40 pm


Going up.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 11:43 pm


It dies again midway. Five minutes pass. Then ten.




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cherno astra
PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 11:54 pm


The only light was the glitter of Syntax and Fiona, blue-and-red matched with gold.

Kostya angled his hand upwards, grim. "Likelihood of it returning, you are thinking? Can give you boost. There is hatch at top."

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:00 am


Taym was staring straight ahead, resigned, exhausted. It was unusual for him to be so still and so quiet for such a long time without either a book or a phone in his hand, but these were, obviously, unusual circumstances.

He considered the question while he procured a cigarette and lit it (maneuvering Fiona around his fingers with habit) as if they were considering a mundane question like what to have for dinner, or (perhaps more likely) what books Taym ought to bring back for the library on his next trip out. He continued to consider it for several slow, steady drags.

"You think we'd survive if they crashed it all the way back down somehow?" he asked finally, flatly curious. "I bet we would. God bless weaponizing." With this slightly cryptic prevarication, he gestured upward. "Let's see what we can see."

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