Ok, see you
<--- Podarge
*watches bubbles arriving at the troubled surface*
<--- Allen
*watching the girl*
Doesn't look like she got instructed to do something before she escaped. Maybe They were just training "convincing" techniques on her. *thinks about what he heard so far*
She was talking about her parents. Maybe her father is one of Them? *nervously looks around*
Then maybe he's going to look for her - I need to get rid of her as soon as possible!
<--- Lina
*knows for a while already that he is watching her*
*pauses and ponders when he is going to come in*
*wonders why he brought her here*
*continues rocking back and forth*
<--- Allen
The sewage - that should be a good place for her! Nobody will find her there! *takes deep breath*
*walks into the chamber*
Come, we're leaving this place! *takes her hand and pulls her up*
<--- Lina
*surprised*
*wishes he'd let her hand go*
<--- Allen
*pulls her through the cardboard maze, but takes another exit this time*
*climbs down some stairs, still dragging her with him*
<--- Lina
*follows him as fast as she can*
*trips down the stairs and hits the ground*
<--- Allen
Shit! *turns to her*
Y'ok?
<--- Lina
*slowly gets up*
*ignores the pain in her side as good as she can and nods*
<--- Allen
*quite impressed*
She didn't even scream! *smiles*
*completely forgot why they are doing this trip*
*just drags her towards the place he had in mind*
<--- Lina
*follows as good as she can, trying to ignore the stings in her side*
<--- Allen
*finally stops at the edge of the sewer and looks around to see where to go next*
<--- Lina
*sways*
<--- Allen
*shocked*
*catches her*
Can you walk just a little bit more? We're almost there!
<--- Lina
*hardly able to breathe due to the stings in her side and the stench down here*
Where - are we going?
<--- Allen
Oh - *blushes*
Um - to a place where your father can't find you.
<--- Lina
*puzzled*
F- father - is dead - how could he - find me? *coughs weakly*
<--- Allen
*blanches*
Oh - my mistake! *thinks quickly*
Say - would ANYONE search for you?
<--- Lina
*doesn't believe anyone would look for her*
Noone. I am garbage. *remembers how often she's been told that*
Just garbage - *drifts into unconsciousness*
<--- Allen
*feels pity and guilt at the same time*
I'm sorry, Lina! So sorry!
*looks at the sewer and tries to decide what to do now - either giving her a quick death right now without any further suffering, or giving her a second chance to live - which probably might even be less pleasant*
She spent her whole life in hell. *decides to give her the chance to experience something better*
*picks her up and carries her all the way back and into a different cardboard chamber*
*gently lays her down*
*fetches a couple of old filthy blankets he had stacked in a corner and creates a bed for her*
*lifts her up onto it*
*examines her head but doesn't find any fresh wound*
*removes her shirt in order to examine her*
*shortly distracted by all the scars*
Wow! Some of them must be a decade old! *checks some especially nasty looking scars*
These will rip open when she grows just a little bit more. They must itch like hell! *tries to identify what caused them but fails*
*sighs*
*notices a bruise on the right side*
Interesting colors. I hope there's no rib broken. Cooling should help. *opens an old first aid box he stole a long time ago and gets some cooling salve and some bandaging clothes out*
*treats and dresses the bruise*
*then puts the shirt back into place*
*sits by her, thinking*
So her father is dead. Maybe that is why she could escape? I really need to know more details about that strange guy! I wish I knew his name! Gotta ask her next time she awakes.