essen ♔ where not a single soul gets through

[superswank]

♬ rainbow factory - glaze

WHO || Sydney B., Andrew, Diana, Felicity, Sebastian [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a hacker friend of Andrew's who has gone off the grid
WHERE || Essen, Germany
WHEN || Jan 10th, shortly before 7pm [forwarddated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The flight to Essen is very short, only about half an hour, and Sydney makes good time flying them there. Wynn has a car already rented and waiting for them as usual and then it's a short drive to the coordinates Lady Nell sent them.

While the neighborhood in question was once a very nice residential development, it now shows decades of neglect. There is a squat, one-story storefront across from what appears to be a riot control vehicle that appears severely battered.

Comments

Sydney and OTA

[badexample]

[Andrew's antsy through take off, and probably isn't exactly the picture of team leading confidence... But he hangs out for about 10-15 minutes in a seat, looking through information on his phone, keeping himself busy.

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The second half of the trip, he makes his way up to the cock pit, needing to stretch his legs a bit. Knocking his knuckles against the doorway.]

Mind some company?

[superswank]

[ she looks back over her shoulder ] Not at all.

How are you holding up?

[badexample]

Still think it's all sinking in. [He ducks his way in because lol he's giant. Despite the earlier 'stretch his legs' excuse he gave himself, he just slumps his way into the co pilot's chair and looks over at her.]

Wanted to thank you for coming. When Wynn said we could put a team together for this, you were one of the first I thought of.

[superswank]

Then I hope I don't let you down.

How long have you known Alice?

[badexample]

[He just shakes his head a little and laughs. He really doubts she'll let him down. Sure, he only knows a little about what she can do, but Wynn picks some really amazing people and he just has a good feeling about her.]

A few years now. Started talking to her around when I started up with the Knights. [Which was after he was done with school, because he had resisted following in the family footsteps for a bit.]

[superswank]

We'll be on the scene soon. There's a good chance we'll be able to help if something went wrong.

[badexample]

[He glances down at the ground far below.]

I've never been this close to it. Never been much for fieldwork at all, really. But... [He trails off, still looking away.]

[superswank]

You'll do great. Just remember: even though this mission is personal, you have to treat it like any other.

[badexample]

[He nods.] Have you ever-? Tried to save someone you knew?

[superswank]

More times than anyone should. But that was all in the old days.

[badexample]

Your work before the Knights?

[superswank]

Back in my own world.

[badexample]

Oh. Right. The Veil. [He forgets about it sometimes, especially if someone doesn't look especially... Veily (Andrew, that's racist).]

So you remember a bit of it? Your life before?

[superswank]

As far as I know? All of it. But if there are things I don't remember, I'm not sure I would know. It's just how brainwashing works - your mind is tricked into not questioning itself. We want to assume that we can trust our own thoughts, our own memories.

[badexample]

Brainwa-? [He stops short] Sorry. Probably not something you really want to talk about.

[superswank]

I didn't say I was talking from personal experience. [ but she also didn't say that she wasn't ]

[badexample]

Guess it's just not the first place people usually go. I just assumed.

[superswank]

Must be that I watch a lot of movies.

[badexample]

Yeah, me too. [He'll let it drop. Hell, talking about normal things could be a nice distraction, right?] Maybe after all this is over, we can have a move night back at the castle. Love a good spy flick.

[superswank]

Still on the spy thing, huh?

[badexample]

Guess it's wishful thinking. [He really wishes he was more impressive than he is... Or impressive in other ways.]

[superswank]

I think you're plenty impressive, without all that stuff.

[badexample]

Thanks, but we'll see if it's impressive enough to get the job done.

[superswank]

We still aren't sure there is a job. Maybe there was just a miscommunication.

[badexample]

Maybe. [He really doesn't think so.] Wouldn't be the first time my gut was wrong.