RE: Swamped
02-28-2020, 04:35 AM
"And what might that be?" you ask.
"She was asking about Ms. Rebecca's lookalike," Resk says. "Wanted to handle the questioning herself. She figured with Donnie back at work down there, she could get on that."
"Refresh my memory. A lot has happened and I don't remember much about that specific matter."
"Sailor going by Becky, of all things. Looks just like her. Might be a relative for all we know; we didn't have a strong reason to look into it. Just kept an eye on her in case she tried to pull some sort of impersonation trick. From what I've been able to gather, she ran off when Mr. Lex and Mr. Graham started questioning her. Then I chased her down and she was crawling around on the walls with webbed hands and feet. She tried to run through a strange gateway, I stopped her, heard a voice coming from it. She also left a note to the effect that the ship was going to sink and we couldn't stop it."
You think about this.
"That last point sounds like it might be highly relevant to what I've been trying to figure out. Are you sure you told me about this before?"
"I thought I did in the meeting. Maybe I missed a detail or two. At the time, I wasn't entirely sure my breather mask had worked, to be honest..." He stops. "Oh, yeah, that's one more thing. She had a breather mask with her. It looked like it went with the armor the unidentified soldier was wearing. Do you need a refresher on him, too?"
You don't answer him, because you're already rushing off. You already know two key things. First, that the soldier was pulled back to his own time; and second, that he didn't have a breather mask on him.
So now you need to check if the mask was pulled back with him. If it wasn't... well, you're not entirely sure what's going to happen, since time magic isn't something you know much about.
Which isn't to say you can't make an educated guess based on the knowledge you do have. And it's not good.
"She was asking about Ms. Rebecca's lookalike," Resk says. "Wanted to handle the questioning herself. She figured with Donnie back at work down there, she could get on that."
"Refresh my memory. A lot has happened and I don't remember much about that specific matter."
"Sailor going by Becky, of all things. Looks just like her. Might be a relative for all we know; we didn't have a strong reason to look into it. Just kept an eye on her in case she tried to pull some sort of impersonation trick. From what I've been able to gather, she ran off when Mr. Lex and Mr. Graham started questioning her. Then I chased her down and she was crawling around on the walls with webbed hands and feet. She tried to run through a strange gateway, I stopped her, heard a voice coming from it. She also left a note to the effect that the ship was going to sink and we couldn't stop it."
You think about this.
"That last point sounds like it might be highly relevant to what I've been trying to figure out. Are you sure you told me about this before?"
"I thought I did in the meeting. Maybe I missed a detail or two. At the time, I wasn't entirely sure my breather mask had worked, to be honest..." He stops. "Oh, yeah, that's one more thing. She had a breather mask with her. It looked like it went with the armor the unidentified soldier was wearing. Do you need a refresher on him, too?"
You don't answer him, because you're already rushing off. You already know two key things. First, that the soldier was pulled back to his own time; and second, that he didn't have a breather mask on him.
So now you need to check if the mask was pulled back with him. If it wasn't... well, you're not entirely sure what's going to happen, since time magic isn't something you know much about.
Which isn't to say you can't make an educated guess based on the knowledge you do have. And it's not good.
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