Either there were no telephone towers in the vicinity, or the hotel blocked all telecommunications being transmitted and received. He stood in the empty change rooms, the scent of chlorine stagnant in the air. He had not been able to find a decent signal throughout the entire hotel, even when he stepped out its confines or escaped to its only roof ( Read more... )

( Blood, sweat, tears... )

( Floor 5,996,299--Suite )

When one spent enough time wandering the halls of the hotel you began to suspect you may never return home ( Read more... )

( A kiss with a fist is better than none. )

( He was a stealth specialist, though apparently he wasn't cut out for this particular mission. )

( He woke to the sound of a knock against a door, eye snapping open. )

Looking out over the city, it didn't seem to Selina that place ever changed much at all.

( Cut - )

Selina pulled at the tape that she'd carefully wrapped around her fingers, binding her her fist with her teeth, She admired the symmetry, the shape for a second - raising her hand to the light cascading down from a nearby window. She could barely remember how she'd gotten here, but here she was. The gym was well stocked. Parallel bars, a trampoline ( Read more... )

"Well, I'd say that went surprisingly well, but it went exactly according to my plan. So no wonder it was a brilliant experience," Prometheus congratulated himself to his partner. Something she would have no doubt noticed was that Prometheus was a talker. He talked and joked and quipped and mocked and monologued constantly. And he knew it too. He ( Read more... )