video; post-infiltration (@inuyasha w/ @quickfish & @sonofodin)

[boxedcrook]

[There's video for once! The familiar brash, adolescent voice now matches with a (bruised) face: a screen half full of white hair, golden eyes, dog ears, and an incredibly sour expression. Does he have fangs when he talks? They look like fangs.]

If you're missin' a room full of people, I can tell you right where they are.

[It's hard to lean back when the comm device is attached to a necklace, but Inuyasha does anyway. Behind him is a crowded cell. Everyone's able to see some familiar Rost faces and Larson, some other civilians, as well as Hayame and Odinson.

Hayame, who looks shockingly less like a horse and more like a human, glares from afar, and if it could kill, it would have destroyed Inuyasha on the spot probably. On the other hand, it's a normal day for Odinson; he's indifferent to being stuck in a cell.]

I don't plan on rotting in here with anybody else, and this is all just pissin' me off. [This is, like, his preemptive warning to the guild or whatever.] We're two seconds away from busting out of here, and I don't care how we do it.

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[secondnature]

Well, don't do it yet. We can't risk them knowing we have people with that much power. They won't know how to explain it, and the entire city will be locked down.

But if we can figure out how to make it so they don't know how you blew up the ceiling, that would work.

[boxedcrook]

And how are we supposed to do that exactly? They took all of our stuff! I'm not leaving without Tessaiga anyway. That means I gotta figure out where they took it.

[secondnature]

How was I supposed to know they took your stuff? I'm not there.

[boxedcrook]

Oh, so you think they're just gonna let us sit around in here with a sword whatever else? Give me a break!

They took everything that they could take! They just couldn't get this because these damn Beads don't come off.

[secondnature]

Some people have magic swords! They come out of nowhere!

[Huff. Huff.]

Look, can you keep Hayame from suggesting that everyone should kill themselves for honor? We'll get you out. No explosions or walls or ceilings busted needed.

[boxedcrook]

Like she's gonna listen to me. I couldn't even convince her that it was stupid to keep bowing for honor to everyone in Hanabira much less not dying for honor here. [But fine. He'll try what he can. RIP their cellmates.

Odinson will break them up. Hopefully.]

You got some big plan for breaking this many people out of here without explosions or ceiling busting?

[secondnature]

... No. [This is somehow both more difficult and less difficult than the spaceship that doubled as a prison. At least Keith's long-term plan of "pilot the ship" worked out fine there.]

But some of us have been through this before. They'll know we'll find a way.

I just ... don't know what that way is. Not yet.

[boxedcrook]

Geez.

[They're all between a rock and a hard place.]

Whatever it is, you better hurry. Not for our sake, but for everyone else's. They're not givin' us anything except maybe a quick death.

[secondnature]

If you were getting a quick death, you'd be dead already.

[boxedcrook]

Tch. You know what I meant! They aren't gonna bother askin' us any questions! They're just gonna kill us as fast as possible.

[secondnature]

Did they say they planned on killing you?

[boxedcrook]

And what's your point? This sleazy slimeball said it would be "severe," and nothin' is more severe than death.

Of course they're gonna kill us! What else would they do, genius?!

[secondnature]

Well ... their technology is pretty limited.

But that doesn't mean they're beyond torture.

[Not ... that that's good ...]

We'll get you out before that's a problem. Just keep Hayame's hands to herself. She likes the whole—honor killing. Thing.

[He's not repeating that because he forgot he said it. He just ... needs someone equally rash to buy them time from Hayame's actions.]

[kisha]

Tch-

[Don't mind Hayame, she’s eavesdropping.

And... gritting her teeth unhappily apparently but. What’s new.]

[secondnature]

What?

[kisha]

... Just leave us. If it is so wrong they know our truth, then once the mission is complete, we will see to our escape.

[secondnature]

You don't enjoy being stuck in a cage, right?

[kisha]

Of course I do not enjoy it-

But that is not the point!

[secondnature]

There are ways to get you out that don't involve blowing the place up.

[kisha]

Resources shouldn’t be wasted on the likes of us when there are more important tasks at stake.

Whether it be a quiet exit or a loud one.

[secondnature]

What happens if they realize you're associated with us and threaten to kill you to get us in line? What then?

[kisha]

... Then the answer is clear.

Those of us with honor will see to the lives of those without.

[secondnature]

Did you just suggest that you all kill each other?

[kisha]

Rather than be used as a weapon against our own allies?

If escape we’re not an option, then, yes.

[secondnature]

The obvious answer is that we get you out of there.

None of us could live with letting you guys die like that.