[Sodium_noir] Saturday Evening at Dusk

[Spikey]

Hope Zagorski, Leon Wolf
Dusk Towers

Hope tells herself to calm down, but what he'd said...that couldn't be true, could it?  And if it was...she chooses to vocalize her thoughts.  With her hand still on the gun, she says, "So, if I say no, will you still let me walk out of here?"  Somehow, she had a sick feeling that he wouldn't, but he'd already had two opportunities to kill her, and she was still breathing.   

"Truthfully Hope I wouldn't stop you from leaving. But I would prefer that you didn't because of the danger you are in right now. The .. individual you had to kill did not exist in a vacuum. He had allies, devoted companions who might want revenge. Which is why our timetable has been stepped up and I am here laying this rather overwhelming burden on your lap with such little preparation or subtlety. My sponsors consider you a worthy investment of their powers and fear losing you to the forces of darkness. Better you should have to put up with me and my tactics than that."

Leon adjusts his sleeves, pulling the shirt sleeves to an equal length.

"However, I am sure you can understand that we are talking about people with an above average degree of influence. Now we have revealed our agenda to you there is a certain degree of trepidation. Just letting you walk out of here without knowing we can trust you to keep our secret would be foolish. My sponsors are willing to take less pleasant action to ensure their anonymity. As important as you are in the fight against the darkness, if you put the others who took up the gauntlet in danger they, ...I, would find a way to accept your loss."

He shrugs and looks a lot less stiff.

"There it is, looking at the bigger picture is rarely a cheerful vista!"


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