Peter Lukas says, very sincerely: "I don’t blame for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do."

And a guard pushes Mordred off the cliff.

From that high up hitting the water hurts. And he's tied up and he's never in his life been able to swim and it's so deep and there's probably rocks and--

Mordred has never in his life been able to swim and it turns out that "in the ocean, right next to a cliff, tied up" is not a very good place to start learning but he gasps for air and holds his breath as long as he can, and-- he almost can, for a moment it feels like he almost can

like there's an instinct inside his mind that has always been there and always silent, that tells him how to get out, how to move, where to go, but he's frightened, he has always been scared of water ever since he was a little kid and his uncle-- he doesn't want to think about that--

and he's still tied up, and when you're this close to a cliff the water does everything it can to slam you into the rocks and his skull still screams from the blackjack this morning and he's terrified and-- he's not thinking about when he was a kid he's not he's not but it's so deep and--

and the world goes quiet. All around him, the sea goes quiet and peaceful, and then black, and Mordred knows no more.

Meanwhile--

Dammit no one is at the hotel to take a phone call. If there is a phone she can use discreetly she will call the hotel and leave a message for... Anita, she supposes. Suggesting that... Mordred is going to need a ride home, and her shift is going to take too long for her to get him herself, but she'll meet them when she's off.

Zoe has NO idea how to convey any more information than that in a phone call without making it very clear what she's doing to anyone who might intercept the call. Hopefully it's better than nothing?? She goes back to her post.

And paces. A lot.

Oswald's only clear path to helping was to not draw any attention whatsoever to how long it took Zoe to get back from the bathroom but he focused very hard on doing that.

They get back to the hotel as quickly as humanly possible.

uggggh annoying. Whatever. She'll get dressed and see what the situation is.

"Mordred's been kidnapped! --Oh thank god Araari--"

"How did you find out, was he at least awake—"

"I called and left a message at the front desk hoping maybe Anita would get it before we got back, but--"

"Kidnapped by who, and do you know where he is."

"He was awake and tied up-- Zoe got the car info and the direction, here--"

Zoe describes the car and Peter Lukas and the direction they drove off in.

"How long ago?"

"Two hours!!"

"We couldn't blow our cover--" fuck that sounds so fucking weak

"I should have found some way to follow them, but anything would have brought down all the guards--" She should have though.

"Too long ago to catch the car, then," she says, very calmly, although this does kind of make her feel a little uneasy about how useless these people will be if she gets kidnapped. "I'm going to check the map at the front desk, do you know anything else about what happened before I go down?"

“I—he was knocked out by a woman, Victoria Prescott, this morning, she hit him in the head and he was bleeding so much, I didn’t know if he was still alive and a man rescued me but I didn’t want to go off on my own and probably just—get kidnapped again, or make you think I had—I’ll explain more later—“ Wow that also sounds pretty weak.

"--That would be -- the woman who hired us this morning--" he feels sick. Hasn't quite identified the specific details yet.

"Zoe, I would appreciate you coming with me. I don't think any of us should be alone right now, even momentarily."

"I'm with you."

Well, they can check out the map. Are there any notable locations in the direction that the car drove off in.

Yes! The Dingli cliffs.

"Oh god."

Hm. "Do we have a car here?"

Can we get another taxi? Fast?