CHAPTER THREE ♔ what's done in the dark will be brought to the light

[wynn]

♬ god's gonna cut you down - johnny cash

WHO || The Knights
WHAT || The aftermath of Chapter 2
WHERE || London, England and variou
WHEN || Evening of June 7th --> onwards
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.

In less than twenty-four hours, everything has turned on its head.

A Knight and her allies were kidnapped by Iscariot agents for execution in Rome, barely escaping with their lives.

A mission meant to free one Knight from the influence of a dark god succeeded - at the price of another's life.

A simple recon mission at a Keijen Blade concert nearly led to two Knights committing mind-controlled suicide in front of an eager crowd.

Several Knights went to see Draken Crombe, leader of the Church of the Lord's Humanity, speak in person, and learned just how sinister his religion's dogma is.

A call from Sir Hathaway alerted Wynn to the escape of the doppelganger from the Knight's dungeons, an escape perhaps aided by Elena Gilbert.

A demigod interrupted what might have been a simple smash and grab retrieval of an artifact.

And most horrific of all, in the middle of the night, hundreds of Shadowkind in New York City awoke, and walked in a mindless trance down to the Hudson River to drown themselves. Only the quick thinking and combined efforts of the Knights present and their allies prevented all of them from succeeding.

Beset on all sides, a dark time awaits for the Knighthood - who were already suffering from the capture of Dragon's Claw Sir Thomas Bancroft at the hands of their long time enemy Dimitris Sarandis of Andres Isle.

In times such as these, the light can be difficult to find. Hope itself seems somewhere just out of reach.

Comments

[twinfucker]

[Wow Lydia you have nothing to worry about Jaime rolled a 2 on his use computer check he probably would have just... broken the phone.]

I'm still not entirely sure what a bomb is or what's so threatening about them...

[bittersweeter]

You can only get into Air Traffic Control systems from inside Air Traffic Control. I meant wait until we were there, we're twenty minutes out. [ lila has driven to the airport so many times by now she knows the route by heart. ]

[ex_psionic439]

[Adam is just going to side-eye the fuck out of Jaime for a hot second. Like, what even.]

... I could probably get us in without a problem.

[killingtodeath]

How's that? [Adam, you remind Stiles of Jackson. That's not really a good thing. But he's listening.]

[bittersweeter]

He's a psion. And has Tourette's. [ shouldn't have scoffed at her srs conversation at the convention, bitch. but between the two of them... lila is pretty sure he is right. and completely unrelated, lila glances at adam in the mirror. ] Have you heard from Astrid or Faye?

[ex_psionic439]

[Wow, this bitch. Maybe if you hadn't been fucking yakking it up the whole time. But not having heard from Astrid--or Mars has been a thing. So that sort of ... curbs the bitchy look he gives her when their eyes meet in the mirror. Slightly.]

No. [Which was weird enough in and of itself, but.] I've been cat-sitting for someone else in their group, and I haven't been able to reach him either.

[immuno]

... Telepathy? [ she looks at adam, ignoring that they're for some reason gossiping about completely unrelated people instead of focusing on the task at hand ??? ]

[ex_psionic439]

[Peeling his gaze from Lila's reflection to look at Lydia. This is the part he hates, but whatever.]

Sans the Tourette's, yeah. [He brought that shit on himself tho.]

[immuno]

If you can get them to let us inside, Stiles and I should be able to register the flights as delayed for weather or whatever else. Then we can check the airport security footage for Sir Gilbert.

[twinfucker]

Who might, by that point, look like anyone in the world.

[He is just saying.]

[killingtodeath]

[Stiles shoots Jaime a look.]

Not helping. New rule: You only get to talk if you have a better plan.

[Don't you dog on his girl Lydia, alright?]

[immuno]

Chances are, one of them will have changed while there to find a ticket they can take. We just need to catch it.

[ex_psionic439]

If they're close enough, I might be able to pick up them too.

[Cat's out of the bag. Might as well put it all out there at this point.]

I mean, it's not like they can change their thoughts.

[bittersweeter]

If Elena's not 100% willing she would have left a trace somehow. [ well! lila would have, she is just giving elena the benefit of the doubt. ] How close do you have to be?

[ he is free to read her mind, tbh, but it's mostly french and russian profanity at this point. ]

[killingtodeath]

See? Helpful. [Another look at Jaime. But Lila's comments makes him pause and turn back to Adam.]

Wait. Are you doing it right now?

[twinfucker]

Pointing out flaws in existing plans is helping. [But he rolls his eyes and settles back against the seat since they could legit be speaking another language.

He does shoot a suspicious look at the mind reader, though. That's creepy.]

[ex_psionic439]

Sixty feet? Give or take.

[Blatantly ignoring Stiles' question. Wow, fuckers. This is why he opts for Tourette's over the truth. Well, part of the reason.]

But if the flights are going to be grounded, then we'll probably be combing the terminals anyway.

[immuno]

Some of us can comb the security footage, the others can walk the floor with—[ oh it finally became relevant. she turns to him. ] What's your name?

[ex_psionic439]

Adam.

[bittersweeter]

I'll go with Adam, my boyfriend is meeting us there. The jolly green giant can stand guard for you and Stiles once we get you inside. [ she's been here longest second to jaime, so she trusts him to protect the newest squires. she and adam can fend for themselves. ]

[immuno]

[ ... what ???? ] Do you always invite your boyfriend on missions with you?

[bittersweeter]

You did. [ pointed look at stiles in the mirror. ]

[twinfucker]

Is your boyfriend a knight?

[immuno]

I don't have one.

[ she's not even reacting sharply because um ?? what ?? it's not even defensive. it's just factual. stiles and boyfriend don't enter the same sphere. ]

[ex_psionic439]

[Is this conversation really happening tho.]