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The Silent Firework (9) : Fireworks are aplenty this time of year, and there’s always something going off somewhere in the city. Little pops and noises are common, but something about this firework is completely abnormal–it makes absolutely no sound. Instead, light and color splashes across the night sky and leaves a lingering glow behind. No one knows where it came from, but it lit up the sky like a midnight sun, and was gone after about a moment. Anyone who managed to see it in person may find that when they blink, there is a residual glow before them. Strangely, it even seems like there’s a trail of faded, glowing light guiding them somewhere. Maybe you’re led to some special place, or some special person, or–maybe the trail ends before you ever find out where you were supposed to go.
Gremlin glowered at the girl from his perch atop Rakovanite’s shoulder as she kept pace beside them. He didn’t know how it happened that filthy Mirror rats kept getting tangled up in his business, but given how <******** useless they were, he wished they’d knock it off and go die alone somewhere. Honestly, he didn’t care who this one was related to; her starseed was better off smashed under someone’s heel. Less vermin to populate the galaxy.
“This is nonsense,” he seethed against Rakovanite’s ear. “You spoke to this girl for fifteen minutes, and that’s it? We’re all dandy now? It wasn’t even worth the hours we spent watching her! No way I trust some Dark Mirror bimbo and her ADHD brother,” the cat sneered.
Admittedly, it was true that Rakovanite didn’t completely disagree.
The Dark Mirror were ‘allies’ to the Negaverse in the loosest sense of the word, so he expected she probably didn’t know any White Moon identities. It didn’t mean she didn’t have friends among them who she could tell any information she found out, but… If Zaidyn was as close to her as he claimed, Rakovanite was hoping they would both see it as mutually beneficial to not stir the pot further. She could try and convince him to purify, but if she wanted to recognize him, she’d have to do the same. And run twice the risk of one of them forgetting about the other.
They wouldn’t go through all that trouble. It wasn’t reasonable. And because it wasn’t reasonable for them to behave in the worst-case scenario, Rakovanite hoped there would be little need for further threats to strain the relationship of his team. Vauxite could have his sister back, in whatever regard his memories allowed. Jenna could have her brother back. And that would just be the end of this fiasco.
It was fine.
It was fine.
He exhaled stiffly and gave a little roll of his shoulders in dismissal at Gremlin’s concerns as he finished typing out a message on his tablet. “It is better than the alternative,” he murmured. This may have been among the easiest of solutions, better only if she’d already been an agent or a Negaverse senshi. Both were well out of the realm of possibility now.
“Vauxite will meet us here,” he told Markeb, giving a nod to indicate the dilapidated home she’d come to power up in. “I was not comfortable sending the details of what exactly would be waiting for him when he arrived, so he is expecting only me and an ‘ally…’” Rakovanite glanced away, tone softening almost imperceptibly. “It did not seem my place to share your secret with someone else, even someone close to you. You may handle it however you wish.”
The sound Gremlin made in response to this was an agitated groan accompanied by a roll of his eyes. This seemed like an awful lot of accommodation for a girl they’d been one bad encounter away from killing.
Definitely didn’t seem easier to Gremlin!
Especially if everybody was going to call their ‘friends’ to show up here all together without that much warning. …Good excuse for a bunch of mad magic to go flying around, and Gremlin with no real way to protect himself from whatever onslaught occurred besides just hiding under Rakovanite’s cape. He scoffed.
