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Nikki pulled herself up another flight of stairs, desperately trying to catch her breath while she still had clean air. She could hear the sounds of crazed arguing below, by the couple who had been caught in the rising miasma. She thought that once she got inside she'd be safe, but the white smoke had leaked in, flowing under the door and through tiniest of cracks in the windows.

She didn't know what it did but, with the nine in town, it couldn't be good. She wasn't finished catching her breath but already she could see the miasma rising through the stairwell towards her. One more story - she'd be on the roof. That had to be high enough. Someone would save her - Legend, Glory Girl, anyone. 

With a last burst of energy she staggered through the maintenance door out onto the roof. 

She could see the entire city - see the miasma creeping up the sides of the buildings. In seconds it was coming over the edges of the roof she was on, out the door she came through, barreling towards her... 

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"Seriously? I would've told you to go with Chasm or something."

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"It was to remember a friend." he says, reflexively. 

 

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"Your friend would've told you to go with Chasm or something. It's better than the last name, at any rate. I assume Miss Militia told you?"

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That certainly sounds like something Lorica would say!

"Tattletale, actually."

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"Huh. I guess maybe Skitter told her enough to put it together."

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"There's a long range empath involved who sensed someone with an emotional void. Also I think someone in the PRT might have tipped her off."

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"Well, I did walk into a pretty random PRT office."

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"Mm... Um."

"What happened?"

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"I - Butchered into this random girl, sort of, apparently."

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"Is she in there with you?"

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"If she is she can't talk to me."

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"Maybe Tattletale can tell. Or the empath."

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"It'd be nice to know if there's anything to be done for her, yeah. Her name was Nikki, I have her ID."

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Lucien is honestly not sure what the conversationally appropriate way is to respond to the recently resurrected friend whose death you were responsible for about the person who probably died to make her resurrection possible! 

Hopefully the correct answer is awkward silence cause it's what he's going with, apparently.

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"I have a different power now - I guess the same defensive one but I'm not a tinker anymore."

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"Skitter said Jack Slash got hit with a van?"

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"Yeah, I can hit people with vans. It's less, uh, fun, but it's oomphy."

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"There's a reward for killing him, 2 mill apparently. Would have been more but the PRT capped it to prevent people from making bad decisions."

He will leave out the bit where Regent said the reward might even cover Lorica's speeding ticket. 

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"Way less than I figured I could make tinkering."

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"Oh um. About that."

"I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be recruiting you."

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"I have no idea how old I legally am now."

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"How old you are?"

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"Would I be a Ward, or, uh, in for the duration."

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"Oh, I'm not sure."

"I'd be recruiting you for the Undersiders, not the Wards." he says, embarrassed. 

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"- why would I want to be an Undersider. Why would you, for that matter."

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