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003. [voice/location: wayne manor] six fifty eight

Mar 03, 2010 19:17

[Cat speaks calmly and deliberately when she gives this message:]

Any of y'all who aren't on the skyship, if you're still looking for a place, Wayne Manor is open, and we'll be taking anyone in who needs it. There's not much time left, so if you're on the ground, this is the place to get to. You'll be safe in here.

[end transmission.]

( do you know where my spark is? )

{ penelope june lane, { cat lachance, { bruce wayne

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communicator | bruce & cat obscuronoctis March 4 2010, 05:18:03 UTC

The device he gave Cat should be pinging softly right now, before: "Cat, listen. There's no radiation in the bombs scattered in the city, it was a scare tactic."

communicator | bruce & cat lambentstar March 4 2010, 06:07:30 UTC

"--Jesus, are you serious?" For some reason, this news isn't immediately reassuring, if only because it opens up new realms of unknown factors. "Well--at least we won't need these drugs, then."

A pause. "What's going on out there?"

communicator | bruce & cat obscuronoctis March 4 2010, 06:46:04 UTC

"There's a centralized radiation point and I'm going there right now. If it's a nuke we're in trouble." ... Thanks for that, Mr. Wayne. "It sounds like some people have been accidentally setting off a few smaller bombs trying to disarm them."

His tone of voice is flat, but quiet - he hopes they're all right, but there isn't anything he can do right now, priorities being what they are.

communicator | bruce & cat lambentstar March 5 2010, 00:10:03 UTC

"Almighty God--oh, sweetie, don't touch that." Cat pulls the communicator away from her mouth to gently nudge an Extra away from a door, this one apparently a girl in her late teens.

"I got some--people." Her hesitation in calling them that is very brief, but undoubtably telling as to the type of person she gathered up. "Everyone's fine, so far, no injuries in here - I should let you go, but you--Jesus, I told you already, you didn't forget."

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[location: the northwest border of Central Taxon and Shelley] meanwhileback March 4 2010, 06:06:38 UTC

Those creepy fucking robots are all over the tram system, attempting to keep people away from them. Penelope, on the other hand, needs to use the trams-- she has no access to a car, and the only way she could to Leila's bomb-safe forcefields from Taxon Central (where she had just dropped off her cat for safekeeping) in time to not get blown up was to take the Pink tram line.

This was an excellent plan, if you didn't take the creepy fucking robots into consideration. They would gang up if she tried to go anywhere near the stations, and sneaking past them was impossible. There were too many, and Penelope was never the stealthiest type of person; in general she tended to loudly announce her presence in one way or another, so that was out.

She didn't have a choice. She'd need to run. And fast-- the hour was nearly up. She ran northwest, following the rail line, as fast as she could. If she was lucky, she might just about make it.

Penelope's never been very lucky.

[location: the northwest border of Central Taxon and Shelley] obscuronoctis March 5 2010, 11:10:22 UTC

Bruce's reasons for clearing out of the scene in such a hurry are twofold; primarily it's just a habit to get out and leave the 'processing' to the people who are meant to do that sort of thing. He's not one of those people, now more than ever, and if he doesn't trust himself to play judge and jury in a place where he knows the legal system inside and out, he certainly has no business getting involved with this mess. Bruce finds what they can't, does what they can't - he exorcises metaphorical demons, but he's useless at the recovery process. That whole 'trust' issue plays into the second reason, too, in that he's just not sure what he'd have done if left unchecked ( ... )

[location: the northwest border of Central Taxon and Shelley] meanwhileback March 5 2010, 23:06:28 UTC

Penelope wakes up in the dark. This strikes her as strange, because she doesn't remember being in the dark, or for that matter, why she would need to have woken up in the first place, as she doesn't remember falling asleep. It's also strange that the only thing she can hear is a very loud ringing in her ears. She has no idea how that happened either. Strange. Very strange indeed. Huh. And why does she taste blood ( ... )

[location: the northwest border of Central Taxon and Shelley] obscuronoctis March 5 2010, 23:35:29 UTC

The sense-knowledge that someone is nearby strikes him dimly, just as he's moving forward through the rubble - he thought he heard something, like a gasp, maybe softer, and it was a sound wholly different from anything a lurking Extra might make. That sound is not something he might just imagine up, and he is not the sort to leave any stone unturned, literally or figuratively, until he figures out what it is.

That may be quite fortunate, for Penelope.

When he finds her he crouches down and assesses what he can without touching or moving anything, knowing that if she's too badly crushed, moving heavy pieces might just kill her immediately. She seems to be in one piece, which he's grateful for; hopefully she'll remember him. Hopefully she won't panic.

"Penelope, can you hear me?"

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