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Sadde and Bell in Worm
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Sadde feels... strange. They poke that feeling this way and that, trying to make sense of it, and tentatively conclude their crush on Chelsea, with whom they hang out somewhat frequently, is the cause of it. And the fact that she's bi and Bella isn't. And she's so nice and pretty and cute and she gets them, and sure, Bella gets them, too, but it's—different somehow, even if they can't quite put a finger on what the difference is. It just is.

They don't have fights. There isn't conflict, per se, in the relationship. Just a sort of... unease. A loss of synchronicity. They're sure as soon as Chelsea goes (must she? She could stay...) everything will come back to normal, even as they fall further and further in love with her.

Unrelatedly, one day Lorica's patrolling and gets a report about a building near her where no one's answering any doors.

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So Charlie drops Glam off in HQ and then he and Lorica vanish again.

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Glam: is dropped off!

The PRT has already been notified and is on its way.

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And how would the PRT like her to play this?

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Get Glam's help, Dauntless and Miss Militia are on their way, see what info she can gather without actually breaking in, and break in with bots once the officers and the other heroes are there.

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"Glam, how's your bot supplementation doing?"

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"As far as I know fine?"

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"Supplement me some bots then."

Bots cloak - good early sunset - and approach the building.

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And they're supplemented!

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Good. What's to be seen about the building?

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From the outside: boarded up windows, no one visible.

And then another scream comes from the inside, the blood-curling type one screams while they're being tortured.

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Christ.

She's not breaking in but she can start investigating how to most easily do it.

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The scream continues for a few more seconds then stops again and turns into helpless sobbing.

And there are Dauntless and Miss Militia on the latter's bike, followed by the PRT truck.

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"Got what sounds like torture in progress, okay to go in? I can break in or Dad's here."

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"Can your father aim inside? We got the building's layout to help him with that." They send her bot a file with a blueprint.

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"Yeah, he can get in."

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"Get your bots in to recon, first, it might be a trap."

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So some bots unboard a window and file in.

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They're in a completely empty bedroom, closed door, devoid of any active light sources other than the window they just opened and anything they might generate.

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They can get past the door.

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Same deal: all doors to other rooms are closed, place's completely empty, no light sources.

No screams, either.

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Bots look for the place where they heard the screaming.

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Bit deeper, deeper into the building—

—very big speaker box, connected to a laptop and streaming audio.

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"...screams were coming from a computer. I wanna trace where it's streaming from."

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"Do."

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She can do this through the bots just fine.

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