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lazybox2021-03-29 06:38 pm
bloodyashes) wrote in lazybox2021-03-29 06:38 pm
SOUP SOUP SOUP
So the thing is, normally none of them would pay all that much attention to rumors of a mystery Aegis in the custody of anyone. Like, of course they'd go try to free the blade in question, if they couldn't free themselves, because that's what they do. Blade rights is an uphill battle without any end in sight.
But this time, well, this time Asch's intuition is screaming at him actually, that rumor's not all wrong, and so of course they need to go investigate it.
... With Mythra running distraction, because honestly, taking a light blade on an escape/heist (depending on the state of the blade in question) is a recipe for failure. At least she understands that part. And with all of them in resonance, it's not like Jade and Asch can't both yank on her attention for backup.
Intuition gives them easy, silent progress through the facility, with the aid of a bit of dark ether and a few heavy blows to the head for the couple of guards unfortunate enough to come across them. No killing, yet, mostly because the repercussions will fall on the local blades, rather than them. Asch has an unfortunate tendency to be hyper-aware of that.
So now, it's the dead of night, and he and Jade are making their way up to the cells. Asch, for his part, isn't sure if it's better that it's the cells, or if it would be easier if they were just picking up a core crystal. On the one hand, escaping with a core crystal is much easier. On the other hand, it makes it kind of difficult to get an idea what kind of blade they're dealing with.
Either way, they're just about there. Asch holds up a hand to prompt Jade to stop, the both of them dressed in dark clothes that completely cover their ether lines. (Like this, they could almost pass for a pair of mundane human infiltrators, which is part of the point. Between them they have every element, including surprise.)
"Almost there," he says, tipping his head in the direction of one of the cells. "Let's see what we're in for this time."
Because it's never simple. He can feel from both the ether signature down the hall and the way his own intuition weighs on his mind that this time definitely isn't simple.
But this time, well, this time Asch's intuition is screaming at him actually, that rumor's not all wrong, and so of course they need to go investigate it.
... With Mythra running distraction, because honestly, taking a light blade on an escape/heist (depending on the state of the blade in question) is a recipe for failure. At least she understands that part. And with all of them in resonance, it's not like Jade and Asch can't both yank on her attention for backup.
Intuition gives them easy, silent progress through the facility, with the aid of a bit of dark ether and a few heavy blows to the head for the couple of guards unfortunate enough to come across them. No killing, yet, mostly because the repercussions will fall on the local blades, rather than them. Asch has an unfortunate tendency to be hyper-aware of that.
So now, it's the dead of night, and he and Jade are making their way up to the cells. Asch, for his part, isn't sure if it's better that it's the cells, or if it would be easier if they were just picking up a core crystal. On the one hand, escaping with a core crystal is much easier. On the other hand, it makes it kind of difficult to get an idea what kind of blade they're dealing with.
Either way, they're just about there. Asch holds up a hand to prompt Jade to stop, the both of them dressed in dark clothes that completely cover their ether lines. (Like this, they could almost pass for a pair of mundane human infiltrators, which is part of the point. Between them they have every element, including surprise.)
"Almost there," he says, tipping his head in the direction of one of the cells. "Let's see what we're in for this time."
Because it's never simple. He can feel from both the ether signature down the hall and the way his own intuition weighs on his mind that this time definitely isn't simple.
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"Asch is right, though. I'd say we should take some time to rest, seeing as we paid for these beds, but we'll leave first thing in the morning? Maybe even sooner, if we want to use the cover of night to get further unnoticed." They have two dark blades. Might as well use them.
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And right now, after everything he's been through recently, the stabbing and the world travel -- Yuri's body is begging him to just crash for a solid twelve hours. He knows he probably won't be able to give it that much rest, but maybe he could meet it halfway and give it at least six.
He...doesn't really want to get into it right now, because at Asch's statement a very loud Actually Most Flesh Eaters I Know Did In Fact Kill Their Drivers piped up in the back of his head -- Yuri, forced into what he is against his will and with a heart not his driver's is, in fact, a wild anomaly in his society -- but he shuts it up because it's late and this isn't his world. This isn't his place to speak.
(He does wonder what it's like, though, to live in a world where flesh eaters are rare, where they're mostly unknown -- are humans just better in this world? No, that can't be it.)
"I guess we'll head out in the morning, then?" He says, to the room at large. "Because I don't know about you guys, but I'm beat. I need to make like log for at least a few hours." The bed he sits on is all but singing to him...