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Post by Shehrazad on Jul 2, 2009 13:23:51 GMT 1
"No! Not that way, you fools!" But the bystander didn't seem too interested in endangering his life to wolves as well, and he stayed at the door.
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 14:08:06 GMT 1
"We should step sideways," Anna said. "Let's head downstairs."
She pointed to the stairs, and the sign that said WC. There would be mirrors there. Well, if they hadn't all been broken or stolen in the time this place was condemned.
"The gauntlet will be thick, so use the mirror," she added. "You go first. I'll follow."
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 17:11:56 GMT 1
Tristain looked very hesitant about the idea of stepping sideways, though he doesn't voice why. "We can head out the back, trust me this places is as secure as a drug-house, so many ways in and out it'd be easy to slip out unnoticed."
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 17:58:59 GMT 1
"But... we can't really go running around town like this," Anna protested. They weren't exactly decent. And it was broad daylight. They could get arrested.
"Look, it's much safer this way," she said. She was trying to sound assertive. "I know the Umbra here very well."
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 18:04:18 GMT 1
"And where are we going to go?" Tristain was not happy about leaving the knife behind, what if someone stole it? He looks around for somewhere to hide it while they're away.
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 18:08:42 GMT 1
"Back to the apartment," Anna said. "I have to get my... I have to get something. And check on Simon."
As he turned around, looking for a place to hide his knife, Anna noticed the claw marks on his back for the first time.
"I thought you said you didn't get in a fight," she said.
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 18:13:30 GMT 1
Tristain freezes, yet again. "I said that I didn't fight. He tried to fight me, but I ran away. And Simon... he'd be the kin at your apartment?" Tristain takes a step back from Anna and a deep breath. "The big fucker got him. Bought me enough time to get to you." It's clear from his voice that Tristain is not only scared of Anna's reaction to that news, but also that the incident upsets him, too.
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 18:22:26 GMT 1
"Simon's dead?" the news caught her completely off guard. She was suddenly aware of the reality of the situation. She had almost been captured. Simon had been killed trying to protect her. And she was standing in an abandoned bathroom with a complete stranger who had, apparently, saved her life.
But instead of feeling sad for Simon, she just felt angry. When she started crying it was with rage rather than regret. Shaking, she wiped the tears from her face and glared at Tristain, as if this was somehow his fault. "How could you let that happen?" she demanded angrily.
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 18:29:54 GMT 1
Tristain is taken aback at her response, then returns the glare and turns his back on her. He couldn't even begin to articulate a response to that accusation, the idea that he was at fault for the kin's death, when she was the one who'd... he turns back. "I didn't let anything happen. I just put my fucking life on the line for you, and I don't even know you. You were the one that led that rat-fuck to your front door!"
Tristain regrets the words as soon as he says them. He's shouting at a distressed Garou. He takes a couple more steps back from her, almost abandoning face and running like hell from the explosion that would surely follow.
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 18:41:20 GMT 1
"What rat?" Anna stopped snarling, mostly out of shock. "Gabriel..." For a moment she was dumb-struck. Of course it was Gabriel. That's how they had found Adiyah's home, and that's how they had found her. How could she have missed that.
She still looked furious as she stepped up behind Tristain, and touched him. "I'm sorry," she said. She was still crying, although she was trying very hard to stop now.
If Tristain doesn't run away before I get there, Mother's Touch.
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 18:47:18 GMT 1
Tristian steps back out of reach as Anna approaches, not sure who the look on her face is directed at, and not knowing what tricks she might have at her disposal. "Dunno his name, but he was definitely working with the East Side fuck."
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 18:50:21 GMT 1
"Stop running away, I'm trying to help you," Anna said angrily. "How do you know all this anyway? Are you a Ratkin?"
They always knew more than they should. It was creepy.
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 18:56:05 GMT 1
"Ratkin?" Tristain hadn't heard the word before, but it was fairly self-explanatory. He stops as he continues. "No, but I ran into one. He was the one who spotted your Gabriel as a traitor, and got me to watch the place while he got backup. Not that that ever showed up. Called himself Timo." Of course Tristain was skirting around the obvious question, but he still wasn't sure the best way to answer it. He still didn't know the difference between the two sides, after all.
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 19:02:11 GMT 1
"Yeah, you can never trust those rats," Anna said. "One minute they're your best friends and before you know it they'll double-cross you for a shiny button."
She paused, looked him over, and wished she was better at reading people. "Are you Garou then?" she asked. "Kin?" That might explain his reluctance to step sideways, although how two kin managed to save her from Matthias was beyond her. "Do you even know what terrible fate you've saved me from?" she asked quietly.
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 19:05:34 GMT 1
And the question was there, looming above him. "I'm... I'm Garou.... and yeah, I've got a pretty damned good idea." He left it at that, not entirely sure how to say that he wasn't with anyone right now. A knot of fear grabbed his guts as he realised he wasn't even sure if these Westies'd accept the idea of switching sides. Then another thought. She knew, which meant... he turns away from her, no longer able to look into her eyes as memories of his past deeds come swimming back up from wherever memories you try and forget go to lurk.
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