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Re: Raconteur City: Investigating Leads (Scarlett, Cartel NPCs, open)
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Luke "That's a bold move," Luke said with admiration. "That place was lit up with peeps trying to find you. Okay well let's get out of here before they start scrambling on the streets." Scarlett MacAleister Scarlett climbed back on her bike as Luke went to his truck. "I'll be in touch tomorrow, once I know if my computer guy can get anything from their network." She fired up the engine, revved it a couple times then set out for her apartment. A short time later she was there, back in downtown Raconteur, at her apartment. The redhead took the elevator up to her apartment and stepped into the lobby area outside her door. Once she unlocked the door and was inside, she set down her keys on the counter and checked the place out to see if Snow was home. He was gone...apparently still a little bent out of shape about her refusal to turn him. Oh, she thought, if he only knew what he was asking for. Scarlett stepped into the bedroom and removed her jacket, but before she could lay it on the bed something caught her eye. An object sitting on her pillows, something that she'd not noticed there before going out for the night.? It was a stemmed, black flower...a dahlia. A chill sent down Scarlett's back when she saw it and she took a step back. "Can't be," she muttered, reaching for her phone.? She called Snow and after several rings, he answered. "Some of us sleep at night..." he barked. "My room, were you in here earlier?" she asked. "No. Why?" "You didn't leave a black flower on my pillows?" she asked, still staring at the black dahlia. "No. Is something wrong?" Scarlett went around and checked the rooms more carefully, checking windows and any other ways in or out. Nothing was unlocked.? "Red, you're scaring me," Snow said, voice trembling. "I'm fine," she said. "Be here when I awaken, we need to talk." "Sure," he said. "Sweet dreams." After he hung up, Scarlett put the phone down and picked up the flower. She looked it over then smelled it. "Eva," she whispered. "It...it can't be." Her mind then began to drift, back to years earlier, to another place and time.... (tag? Eva, Scarlett, Luke, cartel)
On Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 09:53:05 AM EST, Scott via groups.io <liturgy_fio@...> wrote:
On 11/16/2020 12:42 PM,
ijinkhan@... via groups.io wrote:
Luke
Luke had
followed the actions of the guards or whoever they were
that searched the property.? He'd lost track of Scarlett
long ago after she'd faded from the view of the poor
camera's view screen.? He kept low and followed the action
aware that she'd likely been discovered but not in the
physical sense.? Perhaps she'd tripped an alarm or someone
had noticed movement from a hidden camera. The emphatic
searchers continued without discovering the intruder.?
Luke held back aware any commotion from him would bring
immediate and unwanted attention.
Dogs growled in the distance and there came sounds of pursuit. She had been found!? Luke prepared a ball of water about the size of a balloon. The perfectly round bubble of water hung suspended in the air a few feet above his head.? A sound came from the fence line. Luke
stepped back then gingerly spoke aloud, "Scarlett?"
Scarlett
MacAleister
Scarlett appeared
out of the darkness. "It's me," she whispered as she
approached Luke. "Let's go, I'll explain back by the road."
They made their
way away from the estate, through the woods and brush, until
they arrived in the vacant lot off the main road. When they
made it back to where her bike and his truck were parked,
Scarlett turned to Luke, "I managed to get inside...upper
floor. I found a computer and installed a program that will
allow a friend of mine to gain access to files. Not sure if
it will produce anything, but it's worth a try."
Back at the
estate, Javier Delgado came back down the stairs and met the
young Native American, Sani, in the living room of the big
house. Jablonski was there too and he looked to the grizzled
Mexican and frowned, "Dogs caught a scent, but they didn't
find anything. They got spooked a couple times...like
when..." the security guard paused a minute and fumbled over
his words. "L-like when they're around you."
Delgado nodded,
"I caught the scent too, upstairs. She was in the house.
Didn't stay long."
"Do you think she
stole something?" Redwind asked.?
"Hard to tell,"
Javier replied. "She might have been scared off because the
guards were looking for her."
"If there was a
person out there we would have seen them," Jablonski
sneered.
Delgado looked at
his with contempt, "Not if she is like me. So get your head
out of your ass Mike and double your guards. I want them
patrolling the grounds nightly."
"Yes Mr.
Delgado," Mike said.
The vampire put
his hand on Sani's back, "C'mon boy, let's go have a drink
and we'll play a game of chess. When the boss arrives, we
won't have much downtime left...she'll keep us busy every
night." "That's a bold move," Luke said with admiration. "That place was lit up with peeps trying to find you. Okay well let's get out of here before they start scrambling on the streets." (tag? cartel, Scarlett, open) |
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