(Callie Carson)
?
? Well, getting anything
straight out of Chase was probably unlikely. She was suspicious of the woman
laying on the cot in the sheriff's office. Callie gave a deep sigh and walked
over to Etienne, standing over her on the cot.
?
?"So I'll ask you, who are
you and why are you here?" the redhead wanted to know.
?
Outside the shrieking continued....
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(Flynn)
?
Continuing to keep the waking world
at a comfortable distance, Flynn immersed himself in his dream construction,
letting the glamour gather about him, replenishing his depleted
resources.? At the same time, he contemplated the difficulties of the
situation he and the others were in.? The mob howling outside the
sheriff's office and clawing at the door didn't worry him all that much. The
people with him inside the office had already proven that they were more than
capable of protecting themselves, though the town itself being steadily
decimated in the process.? The real problem was how were they going to get
to Miller's Crossing with their path being constantly blocked or misdirected by
some arcane means by party or parties unknown.
?
Ordinarily the pookah would simply
have opened a portal that could allow them to travel directly to the Crossing.
But in order to do that, he would have had to have actually been there at least
once, which he never had.? Failing that, he might have been able to create
a portal if he had a photo or a painting or even a good hand drawing of the
scene, but it was unlikely that a place like Miller's Crossing had ever been
deemed worth the effort of any of those things.
?
He hoped one of the others could
come up with something and would wake him if and when they did.? Staying
put amid howling possessed townfolk without a source of unbespelled water was
not attractive as an option.
?
[Sicilien]
?
Chase seemed to be skirting around
the issue, suddenly talking about demons, witches, etc.? Who the hell
cared about Flynn changing into a horse?? At this point, it was obvious
that none of them were alien to the things that went bump into the night.?
Not Callie whose partner was a shapeshifting "medicine man."?
Not himself who had seen one too many demons, half of them being his bounties
whose numerous rewards he has collected by sending back into whatever hell that
birthed them.? He was quite sure that Chase wasn't a greenhorn himself,
the way his eyes looked into back at Sicilien's in that brief moment when they
were surrounded.? He'd bet a shiny gold bar that the guardian of this
mysterious woman hid a beast of his own underneath that burnished skin.
?
When Callie stood up and confronted
the female enigma, he snorted in response, quickly turning it into a
snore.? This oughta to be good, he told himself, as he waited to see what
would happen next.? He couldn't resist the drama brewing, even at the
behest of himself.
?
Etienne
?
As she lay listening to the
conversation, she pretty much figured it Was between the chick and big man so
she didn¡¯t need to get involved. That was until the chick came over to her and
demanded she answer questions.
?
Etienne first thought was...who the
hell is the bitch and who the fuck did she think she was demanding anything of
her. But...rather than say that, she waited. First one second then two then
five. Etienne made the woman wait nearly a full minute before she rolled on to
her back and looked up at the woman with a cheer smile.
?
¡°Who am I and why am I here?¡±
Etienne repeat. ¡°Well, I think it would appear that ?I¡¯m the woman you all
have kidnapped and is ?now holding her hostage in rickety old jail cell
against her will.¡±
?
?
(Chase)
Chase knew her name from the previous town.? It didn¡¯t escape him.? He realized he didn¡¯t need the more defenseless
woman going up against the company woman.?
That didn¡¯t seem like? a fair
fight at all even though he was sure Etienne was far from clawless.?
¡°Calm down woman.? No one is kidnapping
you¡.¡±? He paused in essence he was¡she
wasn¡¯t going to get away till they made it to Miller¡¯s crossing as she was
needed to free the lot of them.? ¡°¡ok so
we are, but your presence is needed¡you and I both know what the undead wench
said back there¡you would needed to free not only us but yourself.? So we don¡¯t confront it¡you running won¡¯t
escape anything for long.? So I¡we need
your help.¡±? He asked rather than demand
since he couldn¡¯t force her to do anything.
tag?Chase, Callie, Flynn,
Sicilien, Etienne, Charity (jumping in))
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