User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Fall 2016/@comment-24422626-20160922044656


 * Pix ignores the newly arrived officers. Her focus seems solely on Goldfin, and on the aqua-heroine's new art.*

Pix: Not the nanos, you bimbo... I've snuffed out seven bastards with tattoos just like the one now gracing your sorry neck. At this very moment, the nanobots lodged in your skin are being reprogrammed. At the push of a mental button, your ink will burn like no tomorrow—as you know. A little more concentration, and I could very well kill you with how much nanite you're carrying now.

* She sneers.*

Pix: ...Oh. And as of two seconds ago, I wouldn't try disabling or removing too many of those if I were you. Face it, Goldfin. I'm your only way out of this... and I'm almost as cranky over prison food as you are with a snake on your face.

* ''Strongheart isn't quite to the mysterious settlement of Hollow Shades yet. The gentle fields and hills of Fillydelphia give way to a massive, thick forest with a canopy many storeys higher than the Everfree's. Hulking trunks of gnarled trees shade the steadily narrowing path, and Strongheart's lone hike. An occasional brook gurgles. Squirrels peek out of trees; larks and mockingbirds tweet an occasional greeting.''

* ''The leaves and branches of these same ancient trees thicken until Strongheart's day is as a red-bathed night. A few jagged reddish cracks provide glow from the dark that is the canopy above—like wounds upon reality itself, bleeding down into this oddly serene new world.''

* Perhaps true nights in the thick of this forest glow more white, like the moon and stars.*

* ''Vega works his jaw as if to say, "I'm still here." ''*

Vega: ...I'd say you two are figuring it out. Talk to you in a bit, then?

Glaive: Don't worry... Looks like I'm watching the city with you this afternoon.

[click]

Butler: "Master Orbit, a train was chartered today on very short notice from a Fillydelphia station. Quite a headstart it had; whoever was onboard is minding the gap in Vanhoover by now."