The crowd clamors as the fight comes to a close, as it appears that most of the people who gambled bet against Claire due to her short stature and obscure background, to everyone in the casino it was an easy win, but to some they saw potential.
"Holy shit she did it" man whispered – wearing a black suit with a collared cape; frozen in shock of what he just witnessed. A man wearing a white tuxedo that's already been stained with wine; the man who looked like he had a few more glasses than unusual was seated beside him shook him by the shoulders "Aw man that's a month's worth of food down the drain, who did you bet on!?" the man with the black suit and cape hesitated for a brief moment as he said "Claire?"
The mans distressed look turn into a loathsome glare as the man in black started to walk away from the bleachers, his eyes locked into him as a few more men pop out beside him, the giant tv on the top of the arena announced "Congratulations on the highest earning gamer of the night!"
In all caps his name and a full rotational view of his face was displayed
"Congratulations KREMIDAL SWANSON for earning 500,000,000 chippies!"
Kremidal's eyes dilate as he realizes what's going on, his face in utter shock as he looks down the crowd holding lethal weapons, another man pulled out a gun and shoots Kremidal but he was too fast, he moved as if he's faster than a bullet; sprinting away as he evades the barmaids with ease while a few men bump onto them as they stumble behind Kremidal, the rest who are still standing keeps up the pace and chases down Kremidal.
He steers the rabid crowd into a dining hall, flashes away as they approach. Spotting a table with no guests - then vaulting over it, as they were still keeping up, Kremidal stopped for a moment as they were inching closer towards them, he whips the tablecloth sending the silverware and fine china flying over the crowd. They shoot some of the flying utensils, one of them accidentally shoots a glass, shards fly towards them as they block their view. Kremidal throws the table cloth, covering a part of the crowd; trapped and disoriented Kremidal hastily sprints away while avoiding the servants walking around the hallway, while the armed gang kept bumping against the servants as they fumble on the ground
Meanwhile outside the casino, posters of Claire and Dominika's fight were plastered around the casino walls, Clarice sees this and at first, she seems confused but when she realized her sister lied to her; "She wasn't doing deliveries, she's delivering a knuckle sandwich" she began speed-walking inside the casino as she was fuming. She enters between the golden pillars towering her, she looks at the ceiling as chandeliers hang from it, walking forward she steps inside glass doors revealing a reception area that looks more like a lobby.
Clarice approaches the receptionist stirring her coffee while on call "Uh yeah, uh huh, waow-"
Clarice tugged her shirt as she looks around and asks "E-excuse me have you seen a-"
He interrupts her by giving her 'the hand' gesture "Hold on somebody's here" after she said that she chugged down the still smoking hot coffee, a brief awkward pause occurred as each gulp could be heard 6 feet away.
She let out a sharp sigh as steam came out of her mouth "God damn that's scorching hot – oh a kid, what can I get for you honey?"
"Um – I'm here to see Claire Phoenix she-" she was immediately cut off as the receptionist says
"Sorry honey you need to have a ticket to see her - oh my bad the fight is actually done, like just now!"
Clarice exclaims "Already done? Well, do you have any idea where she is?"
"Not really sure baby, most fighters have their own rooms to stay but er… if you're quick enough you should see them in the locker rooms prolly still celebrating" the receptionist shrugged
Kremidal enters another hall, and it is full of recreational games, the sound of machines trying to catch your attention as the lights glisten over your face. Kremidal slows down for a bit, as he looks around looking for someone. He hears the gang still chasing him so he keeps up the pace.
A man with deep indigo hair that splits from the middle of his cranium and runs down to his neck - he's wearing a navy shirt folded up to the elbows, as the waist is tucked inside a pair of white slacks. The sounds of his steps were muffled by the game room carpet. He takes a sip of whiskey before he rubs some chalk on his cue stick. Leaning down the pool he bridges the stick with his index finger; a loud clack can be heard all over the room as half of the balls of the pool drop down consecutively. Other players couldn't believe their eyes
Kremidal spots him from a distance, he signs him "Zephyr we have to go!"
Zephyr drinks the last of his whiskey, he hands his cue stick at the girl right beside him "ah my ride home's here, take the win you deserve it"
Him and Kremidal start running away together; while Zephyr was running along, he asked while panting "What's the hurry? Aren't we supposed to leave a little later?"
"Well you see I may have used the Church funds to play a little bit cause er- y'know I was feeling lucky I guess" said Kremidal
Zephyr stops running and yells "THE CHURCH FUNDS? Did you lose all of it?"
Kremidal slows down and said this while walking backwards "the opposite really, I may have quintupled the whole lot"
"How much?"
Kremidal shrugs "Half a billion Quid"
Zephyr puts his hands behind his head as the camera zooms in as it turns into a fisheye lens "Aw man they're after our asses, we gotta-" The double door on the game room slammed open as the armed gang barged in. A man in a cream colored suit stepped forward and yelled "THERE HE IS!"
He points the gun at both of them and sprayed bullets at them, Kremidal is fast enough to dodge the bullets, Zephyr tips the table and hides behind it.
"He's hiding, find him! Ice that fool!"
suddenly they felt an earthquake, most of them got tipped off balance which results to most of them dropping to their knees, gambling chips suddenly fly towards them like bullets, 3 of which were shot at the head and 4 were shot to the heart; the armed gang started to hide behind the tipped tables, they peek out to a few shots at Kremidal and Zephyr leaving them to hide.
Suddenly Kremidal's cape was flying in the air, a few of the gang got distracted and shot the fabric mid-air. Zephyr rolled holding a fat stack of chips, with just enough time he charged it with energy and threw them all at once forming a brick-like projectile. It hit one of the tables that the gang was hiding underneath; chunks of glass shards exploded through the area. Innocent civilians duck for cover as the shards hit their skin, most who were near an exit ran away but those that were stuck in the crossfire were trapped.
Meanwhile in the arena, there were only a few guests around the tables; their cackles echo in the half-empty arena. Staff members were already cleaning up the ring's canvas; the whole place is a mess: empty cups, bags of junk food, and even the foot itself was scattered throughout the arena. Clarice arrives in the arena as she approaches one of the staff members cleaning up the mess and asks "has anyone seen Claire Phoenix?"
Staff members shifted their eyes towards her as one of them mentions "Does she mean this night's champ?"
Clarice exclaimed "What do you mean champ? She won!?"
One of the janitors mentioned "Aw man you should've seen the fight! Her opponent did her dirty and it made her nose explode!"
The other staff members came in and said "Oh you should've seen the fight! she made her opponent almost lose her head, it was nuts!"
Clarice with a sudden look of worry asks a follow up question "You guys have at least any idea where she and her company is?"
One of the female staff members stepped forward and said "Dear, you look distressed why don't you sit down so you can explain better"
Clarice sat down on one of the tables as another staff member gave her a bottle of water, after drinking it she sighed and said "she said she was gonna handle deliveries, she accidentally left her phone inside one of the messages sent to her was the address of this casino"
one of the staff asked "Has she ever gotten deliveries that are farther than Cydonia?"
"Well yes actually it was the town of Alexios" Clarice exclaimed
the other staff member asked "has she ever come home with cuts or bruises on her face"
Clarice wonders as she put her finger on her chin "Well she has, but that's only beef from other students from the orphanage we live in"
the other staff member exclaimed "well, that explains it, I'm not the one to assume the worst but she might have been sneaking out for prize fights. Though I haven't heard from her before outside the city walls"
A loud and thunderous crackle was heard within the casino, one of the staff shouted "My goodness what was that?"
"That sounded like it came from the casino, and that definitely did not sound like a sandstorm!" one of the staff exclaimed, while they look around they realize Clarice is nowhere to be found "Hey wait a minute she's gone already"
A flash of lightning zigzags between the crossfire, it was Kremidal carrying the civilians one by one towards the exit. Zephyr keeps hurling glass shards accurately at the gang, but one of the adversaries had a clear view of Zephyr's cranium. A loud BANG was heard as the pellets flew, Zephyr looked behind as he heard the bang – in a whole second he saw his life flash before his eyes as the pellets were heading straight towards his face.
A loud roar of thunder echoes throughout the room as Zephyr was suddenly carried on Kremidal's shoulders he yells "Don't stall! We need to get out of here and with minimal damage"
Zephyr embarrassingly red also yells "put me down, I wasn't even shot"
"You were about to, if I didn't save your ass!" He says as he drops him down like a mannequin they arrive at the desserts banquet. A girl with pink fluffy hair running down to her waist – wearing a velvet red backless dress accented with a fur coat over her shoulders was picking out desserts at the banquet.
Kremidal yells "Poppy what are you doing c'mon we gotta go!"
"But I haven't even had dessert yet!"
Kremidal runs away as he spots the gang looking like there's no end to them "We have to go now!" he shouts as he runs away
A handful of thugs pass by Poppy, as she spots this - she scarfs down a plateful of desserts puffing up her cheeks as she swallows it all down with icing still sticking on her face.
As the thugs were catching up with Kremidal, they swung their weapons at them, the both of them dodge it a hair away. But suddenly a spoon dropped in from the air in front of the thugs. The thugs stop for a moment while they heard a girl shout "HEY RETARDS"
They look behind and it was poppy as she's posing with finger guns; she closes her thumb as she says "bang"
The spoon brutally explodes killing said thugs.
Poppy catches up to both of them as Kremidal shouts "MINIMAL DAMAGE!"
Poppy shrugs "Sorry"
"you still got some icing err… everywhere"
She wipes off the icing on her face and rubs it down her dress
Zephyr yells "What are you doing!? We still need to return that"
"Worry about that later, eyes on your front!" Kremidal points as they see the gang armed with guns blocking the way, one of them points their gun towards them screaming "FIRE"
As bullets fly punching holes all over the objects like Swiss cheese, Kremidal and the gang hidden themselves separately within the corners of the walls where they're likely unseen
Kremidal yells "No and forth banter, no witty one-liners, no bloody nothing! These guys are amateurs. Poppy! Show them a real curtain call and screw minimal damage!"
Poppy salutes like a goofy soldier as she says while sticking her tongue out "Aye eye Cap'n!"
She hops out of one of the corners, runs in front of the gang while screaming "WAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIT!"
Stopping dead in front of them then posing as if trying to charm them "I never noticed how symmetrical you guys looked"
The gang looked at each other agreeing as they murmured to themselves – fork flies at it sticks on the bald head of one of the thugs, they guy screamed as his head exploded. The gang began to shoot but this time towards her. She flawlessly dodged the first six shots with pivots and lean-backs.
"Outta my way!" Guy holding a huge shotgun steps forward from the crowd, *bang* as the bullets fly away in a horizontal spread. Poppy slides forwards, knees bent as her body is folded down flat to the ground; she dodges all of the bullets this time.
Trips one of the armed gunners flat on the ground, as she uses the body to propel herself off the ground as she keeps throwing kitchen utensils at the ceiling. They struggled to shoot her down but as she kept hopping over their heads one after the other, they got pissed and started to shoot sporadically on the ceiling.
While she was at it Kremidal and Zephyr were evacuating the guests; demanding them to leave
Poppy kicking their heads – attracting them to look at her. As she throws one more fork on the ceiling she jumps away from the crowd, they try to shoot her one last time, but nothing – nothing but a click from the hammers, the crowd was bewildered as they realized they were already out of ammo.
"Aww… outta juice already? That was just a rehearsal, y'know what you guys are chopped anyway, anyway time for the curtail call!" She points her finger guns at the ceiling; revealing the thousands of bullet holes and dining utensils sticking on the ceiling in the middle of it was a chain hanging from a chandelier – rubble and debris was already dropping as it already looked like the massive chandelier was about to fall. *BOOM* a massive explosion occurs as it was heard even outside the casino.
The chandelier crashes on the gang killing all of them, shards of glass scatter all over the hall, a slight quake on the ground was felt due to the sheer size of the chandelier that also spans a whole basketball court. Dust and debris spreads throughout the hall, as it settles Kremidal and Zephyr run towards Poppy to check up on her, her back facing them "Please tell me you at least covered your face this time?"
Poppy slowly faces them as their faces slowly become shocked as well, as they see Poppy's face covered in shards of glass while her face bleeds from it, there were no visible deep cuts but they were cuts nonetheless, and when she smiled her teeth were also bloody due to a lot of shards stuck in between her teeth.
"Aw that's fucked up" said Zephyr as he covered his face in disgust
Kremidal patted Zephyr on the back and exclaimed "Come on the way's blocked, let's head to the other exit!"
Poppy, still pulling out the shards of glass on her face asks "do you think some of them will be waiting there?"
"Not sure, so keep your eyes peeled"
Clarice, now in the hallway towards the exit, spots Claire walking towards the exit of the casino.
"Claire!" Clarice waved and her voice sounded ecstatic; as Claire was about to see her sister she was suddenly socked so hard. Her face squished against the massive fist that's literally bigger than her face. Her body flies across the hallway widthwise as her head hits the wall, it actually looked grim and a little comical.
"OH MY GOD CLAIRE!" Her voice suddenly turned into distress as her body was dead, slumped against the white carpet while blood poured out of the orifices of her face.
It was a man wearing a green shirt, black pants, loafers and suspenders; he was three times the size of the girls, his muscles were bulging. He picked up Claire by the head "So you're the one that took all my money"
"You've been stealing this whole time!?" Clarice exclaimed
"No he lost a bet on my fight" Claire implied as the hulking man tightened his grip on Claire's head
Clarice immediately sprinted towards the man and since his legs were as tall as her height, she uppercuts his nuts then he finally let go of Claire – Clarice wheezes because she's already exerted her energy due to her lack of athleticism. Her body bounces and rolls on the ground she tries to stand up, but her concussions make it hard for her to stand up straight, as she kneels down on all fours she vomits up blood and a few molars.
While the man was hunched down in pain, he spots Clarice and grabs her by the neck; as he stands up, he raises her body 6 feet off the ground, this man was towering over the girls. His grip on her neck tightens as it threatens her life.
Her eyes start to dilate
Breath shorter than the last
Her vision becoming darker and darker
Before she took her last breath
BOOM
A loud explosion and a girly scream followed was heard in the hallways
Clarice's body dropped on the bloody carpet – she wheezes as she takes deep breaths as she regains full cognitive consciousness. She sees Claire still slumped on her side as her body is over a puddle of blood. Clarice crawls as her crawl turns into a sprint, she knelt down while she tries to lift her sister in her arms. She looks back as the smoke clears and witnesses that half of the man's face was gone; bone, muscle and cartilage was fully visible.
He charges towards them as he roars; Kremidal, Poppy and Zephyr sprint while passing through the twins like a rock in the river.
Despite Kremidal being the tallest among the three the man still towers over them - the giant tries to punch the three of them but he is too slow. Kremidal circling around the giant with sparks of lightning as he slashes the giant's legs leaving claw marks and exposing his flesh as blood drips down his trousers, Zephyr throws dining utensils with overwhelming force – so strong it pierces his flesh down to the handle. Poppy wraps her legs around the giant as it chokes him.
He knelt down as the hundreds of utensils that stuck on his back was exposed. But Poppy gets grabbed by the legs – slammed her to the ground, his grip was so strong it broke her femur as she hit the ground, Poppy's pupils went to the back of her head thus she was unconscious. Zephyr was grabbed by the neck and chokes slam him to the ground sending shockwaves throughout the hallway. Zephyr gags out blood from his nose and mouth. Zephyr struggles as he grips the giant's arm squeezing his neck.
A loud crackle of thunder was heard throughout the hotel casino – blood sprayed all over the walls. The giant looked over his abdomen only to find out that his guts were already cut open, the giant screamed in pain as he held his stomach.
Kremidal kicks him in his guts then he knelt down with his head on the carpet. Splats of blood are heard as Kremidal approaches; he is seen on the puddle's reflection. Kremidal notices that the giant has a tattoo at the back of his neck
He raises the giant's chin using his foot and dreadfully says
"Whoever your boss is, tell him the God Slayer cometh"
Kremidal hoists the man's face up and kicks him by the neck. His whole body slams on the wall; once he dropped down, he immediately sprinted away still holding his guts together.
Kremidal sprints toward Poppy as her unconscious body is still twitching. He carries her on his shoulders - he looks back at Zephyr and shouts "Zeph – check their bodies"
Zephyr still dazed by the concussion checks both of their pulses "Still beating"
"Good we need to take 'em to church" They hastily got out of the casino hotel; in the parking lot Kremidal clicked his remote keys as the car tweeted a sound.
Fast forward – they got in the car as the 3 unconscious bodies were now seated, Zephyr maneuvered in the car park and got out of the place.
The sunlight hits Claire's face – she opens her eyes as she wakes up, as she scratches her head, she feels something strange. She caresses this spot only to realize it runs down to the back of her head that this was actually stitches spanning vertically on her head. She looks around the room, it was tidy, it was a place she had never seen before; in front of her was a lush green and purple view of the mountains overlooking the view over the city.
She looks down only to find out she was lying on her bed.
Claire whispered to herself "Did I die?"
"No"
Claire was startled because she swore the man in black wasn't there before; he was wearing all black - a hakama up to his waist, it looked as if he was wearing a skin tight sweater underneath a cape running down to his elbows, the cape has folds similar to the hakama as it includes a tall collar that reaches up to his jaw.
"You were knocked unconscious, you had several concussions, and lost 2 liters of blood – here's a jug of purified water for scale" Kremidal placed it on the side of her breakfast.
Claire looks up the medical stand to see two bags of blood
"Don't worry those are ethically sourced from the nearest clinic I trust" Said he said as he was pouring down the water on the glass
"So I did die, are you the grim reaper!?" Claire yelled as she hides in her blanket
"No- " Kremidal closes his eyes and smiled as he tries to hold his laugh "I'm not the grim reaper, I'm the archbishop of this church: Our Lady of the Abandoned Parish"
Claire hastily looked around and asked "Wait, where's Clarice?"
"the long-haired version of you? She was in a hurry so we drove her to her school. You do attend there, right?" said Kremidal as he looks out the window
"Yeah bu- the exam, it's today! I overslept and what time is it?" Claire stretches her face down in distress
"Not to worry, I explicitly told the proctor that you are unable to arrive in time due to injuries, but in reality: my servant Poppy will be taking care of your exam papers. Because I assumed you'd have memory loss due to the amount of your head injuries!" Kremidal exclaimed
Claire plops her head on the pillow as a sigh of relief follows "I'm smelling something good in that box, what are you serving?"
Kremidal opened up the box as steam poured out on top "Cordon Bleu, Arabic rice, and some buttered vegetables"
Claire sat up on the side of her bed as the food was shining on her face "I'd like to eat please"
She starts scarfing down the meal like there's no tomorrow "Man I've never eaten this good since my last payday, if this was interrogation and you served me this? I am SNITCHING!"
"I'm glad you liked it, I was actually concerned I put too much cheese in the chicken" Kremidal giggles while Claire was still eating, but once she picked up the glass and her hand was shaking vigorously. She drops the glass of water as it shatters on the ground splashing the water on the tiles.
Kremidal steps up from the leather couch, but as he approaches Claire curled up in fear while food was still in her cheeks; she exclaims "No please don't hurt me!" she covers her face, shaking in fear
But nothing happens
Kremidal grabs the plastic bag from the trash bin and picks up the chunks of glass on the floor and also sweeps the tinier shards on a dust pan
He realizes this when he finally stood up "My goodness; God almighty, what did they do to you in that orphanage?"
Claire contemplates in silence
"I am seriously starting to reconsider returning you" Claire chews and swallows up her food with despair in her face
"How long?" Claire suddenly asked
"What do you mean?" He says this while placing the sofa near her bed
"The recovery, how long am I gonna recover? And why even bother treating my wounds?" she said as she crosses her arms
Kremidal explains "I- We were the sole cause why you and your sister ended up in this clinic, the both of you got brutally tangled in our conflict. However, you were the catalyst of the violence that ensued"
Claire plops her head on the pillow while looking at him "Oh yeah~ I won the fight last night, my handler Jesse did mention almost erbody bet against me, though I also wonder how much was my multiplier?"
With a straight face Kremidal says "5 times"
"Holy fuuuuuck, was I that much of a nobody? I had 5 matches with no losses! How?" Claire giggle nervously
kremidal implied "No that's because of the 5-win streak"
A brief moment of silence ensues as Kremidal breaks it with a "Welp, I'll leave you be – make sure to get some proper rest, you get to leave once those blood bags are down to the last drop" he says this while cleaning up the dishes she dined on.
Claire asks before Kremidal could leave "Is there any way to speed up this process? I- I really need to get back to the orphanage - can't I just squeeze the bags?"
Kremidal implied "Absolutely not, it will cause abnormalities to your body. This is the safest and fastest process that we can provide"
Kremidal with empty dishes in his hands leaves the room. As he exits the door, Zephyr was actually waiting at the side of the door with his hand in his pocket while doomscrolling on his phone.
"So, is she awake?"
Zephyr walks along with him as they converse Kremidal responded "She is; she'll be staying less than a week, please remind her that she can walk around church grounds as long as she brings the medical poles with her"
Zephyr, still catching up with Kremidal nervously asks "Wh- what about your earnings in the casino?"
Kremidal suddenly stops as Zephyr did the same "Oh that reminds me, please ask one of the servants to claim it from the casino after a few days, that place is wrecked for now so it's best that we wait until they're done" He says this as they continue walking.
They arrive at the elevator as Kremidal is still holding the plate. Once the elevator arrived down, they saw one of the nuns of the church waiting come down as well. They both enter while the nun was still inside
"You're just scared that they might bite your ass cause we – "Kremidal immediately cuts Zephyr off and implied
While the elevator was going down, the nun's eyes bounced left and right as the two boys argue
"Nuh uh! I was the one who said we should maintain minimal damage! You started the whole thing by making that table explode"
Zephyr immediately claps back with "What do you mean nuh uh!? You explicitly suggested to Poppy 'fuck minimal damage' and look what she did; you deadass permitted her to punch a giant hole through the casino ceiling"
Kremidal clapped back with "You sound like you didn't want to escape that place, you want to get your ass beat there or something?"
They arrive in the church kitchen; as while the nun was on her way, she insisted on taking the plate from Kremidal's hands.
Zephyr asked while he's scouring the fridge "Why did you even think of using church funds for gambling anyway?
Kremidal said while washing his hands "I only took a portion of the money, matter of fact that wasn't even half of it?" as he's saying this Zephyr is drinking juice straight out of the box then assumed
"So a quarter?"
Kremidal implied while he dries his hands "a little more than a quarter actually" – the both of them returned to the elevator door for they still have other businesses to do. As they boarded the elevator Zephyr exclaimed "A little more!? How much did you actually spend? Krem?"
He just stands beside him smiling with his eyes closed, holding his laugh
Elevator rings; Kremidal steps forward, Zephyr exclaims "Hey where are you going!?"
"Poppy's leg is broken right? I have unfinished business to do"
Zephyr sees a glimpse of Kremidal's eyes, it has that familiar menacing look, his eyes are out for blood. Kremidal turns as walks away while the elevator doors are closing.
Fast forward outside the church as Kremidal steps out, shadows of weather ships that carry moisture began to generate clouds as the artificial rain of the city began to drizzle the city below. He wears his hood that's built into his cape hidden inside its collar.
Even as if though he looks ill-equipped for this weather, water just seems to bounce off from his garments
He arrives at a bus stop, people were squeezed against each other for the bus top roof seemed too small for the crowd, they scuffle round Kremidal stepping in the farthest from the bus stop.
Rain continues to pour even heavier as the buss arrives. Once the bus stopped, he noticed a familiar woman seated near the back of the bus. She had blonde curly hair, had green lipstick, and what she seems to be wearing is a sleeveless navy sweater while the rest of her blue trench coat seemed to run down to her shoulders.
He boards the bus as he looks for the woman; passengers are beginning to pile up behind him, he's quite tall so he hunches over a bit inside the bus while looking for the woman's seat, hoping to sit beside her.
He spots her just as he expected: close to the back of the bus.
He scooches over "Excuse me, may I?"
The woman obliged
As he had taken his seat, he removed his hood and his cape and left it hanging on his forearm.
"Miss Crowe, I didn't expect you to see taking public transport?"
She takes a sip of her tea in a paper cup says "sir if this is a request for legal assistance, I suggest you meet me at my office tomorrow"
"Woah now, I'm just here to converse. I heard that you were running this year's election" he said as he pulls out his phone to check messages.
"Well yes, it's cheaper and less stressful. That's worth more than a motorcade – at least before the mayoral campaign begins"
He puts his phone back in his pocket then he clasps his hands with his fingers "stress has a habit of finding people, especially in an election year."
She puts the paper cup of tea on the cup holder while she pouts "If you're suggesting I should be worried, you're wasting your breath."
He implied "Not worried. Prepared. There's a difference. Worry makes you freeze… preparation lets you win."
She tilts her head as she looks towards the window while her arms are still crossed "And you definition of preparation is what? A few devious looking fiends smiling in the dark behind me as I speak on a podium?"
Kremidal chuckled quietly "My definition is making sure problems don't even happen at all"
She looks at him with a glare in her eyes as she said "You sound like someone who manufactures the very problems he's selling the solution for."
He rolls his eyes as it flicks towards her he said "Or like someone who understands problems don't always announce themselves politely."
A long pause. The bus rattles over a pothole. Crowe keeps her gaze out the window.
"I deal in the law, Sir. It's a slow machine. It doesn't take kindly to shortcuts.
Kremidal leans back, voice dropping a fraction.
"Machines don't take kindly to fire either. Doesn't stop the flames from spreading."
Her grip slightly tightens on her cup "What are you really trying to do here? –" she makes a sharp observation on Kremidal's neck as she notices he's a priest's collar "- father, what's a man of holiness doing here conversing with an attorney anyway?"
Kremidal shushes her as the both of them hear the brakes on the bus
The conductor announces through a speaker "Now stopping at Julius Junction"
He stands up as he scuffles through one of the pockets in his pants "Oh that's my stop. This was a nice talk so, if you ever need help in the elections call us" he hands out a business card to her. It reads:
Eyes of Charlotte
Service & Contracts
Kremidlal Swanson 777-1325
Rain is still pouring heavily as Kremidal gets off the bus. Water splashes as he takes every step with his getas, a loud thunder roars as her enters the underground bar knowing damn well this is where the gang that attacked them is hiding.