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Jul. 23rd, 2007 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
un_fallenRaguel is lurking.
He has a purpose, more or less, beyond staring at the lights high above in the devil's tower. He does come here just for recreation occasionally; he knows Rosse's office, after all - knows from the outside which window is hidden behind the solid-looking hologram. Sometimes he catches them as they tumble out of it, screaming, flailing for the safety of solid brick. Objects in space. The ones that fall alone are luckier, of course. He should know.
But there are other reasons for being here: business, not recreation. It just so happens that the alleyway beside Rosse's ridiculously large and ostentatious (to Raguel, anyway) building is usually crawling with leads. Maybe because it's very difficult to get to the transports without going through the alley. You'd have to go three blocks to avoid it, and time is always of the essence when someone leaves Rosse's office. Besides, shortcuts are so tempting.
He fancies himself as really pretty good at this lurking thing. Black blends well with the many shadows, and it's a chilly evening. Perfect.
He has a purpose, more or less, beyond staring at the lights high above in the devil's tower. He does come here just for recreation occasionally; he knows Rosse's office, after all - knows from the outside which window is hidden behind the solid-looking hologram. Sometimes he catches them as they tumble out of it, screaming, flailing for the safety of solid brick. Objects in space. The ones that fall alone are luckier, of course. He should know.
But there are other reasons for being here: business, not recreation. It just so happens that the alleyway beside Rosse's ridiculously large and ostentatious (to Raguel, anyway) building is usually crawling with leads. Maybe because it's very difficult to get to the transports without going through the alley. You'd have to go three blocks to avoid it, and time is always of the essence when someone leaves Rosse's office. Besides, shortcuts are so tempting.
He fancies himself as really pretty good at this lurking thing. Black blends well with the many shadows, and it's a chilly evening. Perfect.
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Date: 2007-07-26 03:47 am (UTC)"Bored?" he asks, picks up Carson by way of a fist in the man's jacket, and tosses him into the wall of Rosse's building.
"Don't believe you were finished."
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Date: 2007-07-26 03:49 am (UTC)He stops short before saying kill me; best not to give him ideas.
"Please -- "
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Date: 2007-07-26 04:28 am (UTC)He kicks his way through the alley detritus to where Carson is slumped. Garbage and scrap metal clatters and bangs across the asphalt in front of him. Several pieces narrowly miss Carson's head.
"You didn't finish."
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Date: 2007-07-26 04:31 am (UTC)"Finish -- what else do you need to know?"
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Date: 2007-07-26 04:41 am (UTC)"So far all we've talked about is confirmations of old information. C'mon, tell me something I don't know."
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Date: 2007-07-26 04:45 am (UTC)"He's going to be in an open area. Soon. There's some -- thing -- for the Family and Life Support Center, and he's giving the keynote. Outdoors."
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Date: 2007-07-26 04:52 am (UTC)"Now where's the challenge," he asks, "if you're just going to fold like that?"
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Date: 2007-07-26 04:56 am (UTC)"I want to leave. Alive." Petulant.
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Date: 2007-07-26 05:04 am (UTC)He reaches a hand down to the man, presumably to help him to his feet.
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Date: 2007-07-26 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 05:15 am (UTC)"See you around, pal," he says at last, and gives Carson a smacking kiss on the cheek.
There's a flash of bright, reddish light.
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Date: 2007-07-26 05:23 am (UTC)One minute later, Hal Carson blinks, and looks around.
Nobody's there.
Which would make sense, really; nobody was in the alley when he came this way. But it's not wise to linger in the shadows, even on Londinium, where there are eyes everywhere.
He picks himself up, dusts himself off, and goes home.