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There's fighting on Eros.
Aegis knows a little about Earthside politics, but not all that much: what matters is that several factions want to capture ("rescue") Aegis and Sue. (Or, as they are collectively being called on the nets with no consensus about which of them is which: "War and Peace".) The rest of the jeesh are in trouble too.
Aegis and Sue have been locked in their room for their own protection, and Sue has received conflicting orders about which contingent of soldiers he should be psychically helping.
autokinetic
How the hell'd he get to Earth so fast? They must've been keeping him under for a while. Maybe Aegis isn't awake yet.
Well, sucks to be them. If he's on a planet, he can get outside, and then he'll be able to do this a lot faster.
How's your satellite imagery of Earth? he asks Jane.
Well, sucks to be them. If he's on a planet, he can get outside, and then he'll be able to do this a lot faster.
How's your satellite imagery of Earth? he asks Jane.
mind_game
It's swell! And she sends him a dizzily radial image of the entire planet from all directions at once. She can make out houses but probably not individual people except in the most heavily viewed areas - which would be more densely populated than this one seems. Like so!
Very nice, he says. If I get out in the open I'll try to match up and see where I am.
For now, though, he's just flickering through the complex as fast as he can. Is that a fire exit? That looks like a fire exit. He goes for it.
For now, though, he's just flickering through the complex as fast as he can. Is that a fire exit? That looks like a fire exit. He goes for it.
mind_game
Apparently the complex is on some kind of lockdown, because it won't open. He does, however, manage to set off the fire alarm.
And with the fire alarm going, the fire exit still won't open? Fucking typical. He sizes up the door, and then teleports to the other side of it.
He transmits this information to Jane, along with as much of a visual of his surroundings as he can stand to gather, and then he flicks back inside where it's warm.
mind_game
It's snowing and cold a lot of places. I don't know how to turn what the temperature felt like to you into degrees Celsius, apologizes Jane.
And there are more guards coming, converging on his position.
And there are more guards coming, converging on his position.
He shrugs.
And he starts flicking from guard to guard - hitting somebody once, very hard, in whatever vulnerable spot they're presenting at the moment, and then moving on before they can hit back.
And he starts flicking from guard to guard - hitting somebody once, very hard, in whatever vulnerable spot they're presenting at the moment, and then moving on before they can hit back.
autokinetic
Pretty much all the doors are locked. Teleporting into the rooms yields a supply closet (not an armory), empty cells, and - not empty cells.
That's not Aegis. It is, however, Qiaochu. He's awake, with a desk on his lap.
That's not Aegis. It is, however, Qiaochu. He's awake, with a desk on his lap.
Learned how to teleport, he says. But I don't think I can take anybody with me, and I don't know how to open these doors. How long have you been up?
Well, they had about twenty guards in the building, and all the ones I met are on the floor now. And it's cold out. I went outside for a bit and now I'm looking for a coat before I try that again.