21st Fight

[soulless_soldier]

[Action, Stone Street: Good morning, someone's breaking into your garage! Barton was out on the street this morning playing fetch with her pet, the blue German Shepard. One of those times, though, the ball goes bouncing off and through your garage door. Which is then followed in by the dog. When he doesn't come back out again, Barton will come over to investigate. That was pretty damn weird. And like hell she's going to bother to ask, she's just going to open up your garage door and let Buster out. Unless it's locked, then you might find her knocking on your door instead.]

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[Phone call to all:]

This stuff goin' on... This is some pretty bad news, ain't it. What do we do?

Comments

phone;

[imoutos]

S-so.. you mean t-there's something we can do about all this..? [ judging from her tone she doubts it. ]

[soulless_soldier]

I don't know. I wanna hope there is. This is gonna start gettin' real ugly.

[imoutos]

Everything seemed a little weird, but.. I thought i-it wasn't too bad j-just yet, since usually things are much worse..

[soulless_soldier]

Doesn't mean it can't or won't get worse. Or better. But I hate always sittin' around, waiting to see if things get better on their own.

[imoutos]

.. Even if they always do get better by themselves..?

[soulless_soldier]

We need to keep people from gettin' hurt by all this. People could start getting stuck in things.

[imoutos]

I-I actually think t-that this is a lot less dangerous than the usual things.. Nothing is out to hurt you s-specifically.

[soulless_soldier]

It could be worse, but it could always be worse. What if this starts happenin' to us?

[imoutos]

.. To us..? [ she hadn't even thought of that yet, really. ]

D-do you really t-think it'd go that far?

[soulless_soldier]

Why couldn't it?

[imoutos]

Um.. well.. I-I thought that usually when something happens here, it just s-stays that way for a while and then goes away.. it d-doesn't usually get worse, does it..?

[soulless_soldier]

Sometimes. Not always, but sometimes. And sure, it'll go away, but maybe not without some casualties first.

[imoutos]

Isn't t-there any way without.. um.. casualities..? T-that sounds scary..

[soulless_soldier]

That's why I wanna try 'n' end this before that happens. I just... don't know if there's anythin' I can do. [It sounds painful for her to admit that.]

[imoutos]

.. Hmm.. i-it's not like there's some 'off' button to m-make it all stop, after all..

[soulless_soldier]

No, I guess not, I'm just sick 'a sittin' around doin' nothing all the time, waitin' for us to be bullied 'n' tortured.

[imoutos]

D-do you have any i-idea where we could look for clues..?

[ she changes the topic on purpose-- she's been bullied before back home too, so she'd rather not talk about it that way.. ]

[soulless_soldier]

...No. All the usual suspicious places 'r all locked up, like usual. The Smiths, the Dairy, City Hall...

[imoutos]

... Eh? You.. a-already looked?

[soulless_soldier]

I'm just assumin', since they usually are. Since when has bustin' down their doors and demanding answers ever been an option?

[imoutos]

Maybe things changed.. I-I mean, I.. a-already thought the carnival last time was.. different from usually..