Re: We Sons Of Daley (TWS)
12-23-2011, 05:13 AM
Everyone Wrote:Trust Alice. Betray Chicago.
"Where to?" You ask, setting off down the shaft's attached corridor.
She goes ahead, leading the way. A small puff of light- a FLAMEY WISP- follows behind her. "I was thinking of MANHATTAN, actually. Nobody visits the ISLAND because it's easier to mine the OTHER BOROUGHS for MATERIAL, and CENTRAL PARK is nice this time of year. If you like the Dark, and the Creation, and the Essence, and the Fire..." She gets a faint smile.
"Really? No one?"
"Well, not NO ONE, exactly. But most people STAY AWAY FROM IT, and no one stays there LONG."
"How do you know that?"
"Heh. I grew up EAST of here, almost across the APPALACHIAN. Something I did once I learned how was go and see all the CITIES, tall and beautiful and collapsing..." She smiles as she comes to a vein, with another one of her CACHE BOXES. "Okay. Do you have some place in mind other than MANHATTAN? Once I start, I can't change the DESTINATION." She opens the box down here and reveals...
"An ATLAS?" You say, a little incredulous.
"How else am I supposed to navigate?" Alice responds, faintly amused. She opens it, and pulls up a certain MAP. "The farthest I've jumped is MANHATTAN to DISNEY WORLD, but I can probably go farther. PROBABLY."
"... Forget it, CENTRAL PARK IT IS."
"Central Park." She starts to chant in Latin again, a soft, Gregorian PLAIN CHANT. The Darkness around you seems to deepen, until you realize that the world around you is fading out of sight. The world dissolves into darkness, and you feel Alice's hand tugging on yours. You try and sneak a peek at her EMOTIONS, but she's UNREADABLE, even as she SQUEEZES YOUR HAND.
Eventually, after a few seconds, your steps resolve into SOUND from NOTHING. You pause, and listen, but hear nothing but her breathing, and yours, and the footfalls of the two of you. She stops. "Shhhhhh..." she whispers. "We're here. CENTRAL PARK STATION."
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