Nineteenth PSI

[a_gentle_boy]

[filtered to Vince]
Mist -- . . . Vince?  If you're free sometime soon . . . Sometime really soon, preferably.  And, um.  If you don't mind having to pull off a small miracle.  And . . . If you promise not to yell at me or anything when you see me.

I really need a haircut.

[filtered to Luke, Wy, Shiraasan, Lyn, Ness, and Duster]
Are you all OK?  Did you make it through the night?

[open call]
Did anyone find out anything interesting at the party?  I think I might've gotten something . . . I don't know if it's important.  It seems as if Billy is nice as long as you play along -- He likes fire a lot, and he likes it when you don't mind about him setting them.  If you say anything about it, though, he gets upset really quickly.

It might be nothing.  I don't know.  If anyone runs into him, though . . . try and humor him.  . . . Maybe things would have gone differently if I agreed.

[For anyone who runs into him, Lucas now dons a stylish hat pulled down low over his face, and a strip of cloth cut as a mask wrapped around the top of his head with a single eyehole for his right eye.  If anyone asks, he is playing cops and robbers.  He bumps into things a lot.]

Comments

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

... I should have done something. I should have stopped them.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

If you had tried, you would've just gotten hurt, too, Miss Virginia. I knew when I went that something could happen . . .

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

I'd rather try and fail than never try at all.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . Not this time, I don't think. I would still have been hurt and you'd be hurt, too, and then I'd be upset that I got you h --

[Shoot, he'd admitted he'd been hurt. Lucas breaks off.]

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

Lucas...

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . It wasn't anything.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

... If you won't say anything, then I won't press the matter.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Thanks . . .

What about you? Did you run into the drones at all?

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

... I did.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Did anything happen?

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

... I couldn't do it. I had her in my sight and couldn't do it. I don't think she's the one that caused the blade to form in my throat. She looked so afraid when I had Rapier pointed at her... I couldn't shoot her.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . Who? Jane? What blade? Did she hurt you?

I don't think you would have been able to get a shot off, anyway, Miss Virginia.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

Jane Smith, the mother. When I got angry with her, I suddenly felt a blade in my throat.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . Do you mean she made a sword appear in your throat? How did you get it out? Are you alright?

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

Smaller than that. And yeah, I'm fine now.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

That's good . . . I hope it wasn't anything too serious.

This is really is the first time I've heard of Jane Smith doing things like this. You said she was . . . scared?

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

Terrified.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

But if it was somebody else pulling the strings . . . Who?

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

I don't know... but I want to find out.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Me, too.

. . . There are a lot of questions we have to answer still. If we could get those answers . . . I really wish someone had seen or heard something really useful.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

I guess we've yet to see...