A Quiet Groan of Change

[Petyr "Volt" Krueger]

Volt takes a drink from his glass, draining the liquid away in a single gulp. "Sorry, comrades, but I can not hang around today. I have to do things."

"Your wife sent you shopping again, Volt?" The other bouncers laugh and Volt shakes his head, laughing along with them. It was a joke of sorts among them that Volt was the only one with a wife, let alone a romantic relationship that lasted more than an hour.

Zipping up his jacket, Volt leaves out the back away and sets off down the streets. Hopefully the stores had not closed up yet.

[Phillippe Montaille]

"I am sorry zat you do not feel well, I shall most certainly call you later to discuss La Resistance, and per'aps share some of your writing as well, it is very nice. But you should go and rest, your 'ealth is ze first priority."

[Cosette Hugo]

Cosette moves to Phillippe and kisses either side of his face.

"Zank you Phillippe. I am not sure where I will be so please call my cell. Per'aps you can come see my loft and I will show you some of my collections."

Cosette moves to Anna doing the same geture.

"Goodbye Anna. Till we meet again."

Cosette leaves the apartment and walks down the street. She stops to sit on a bench and begins to cry. She had never been treated in such a way as that before. It hurt her immensely inspite of Phillippes tries to make things right. She gets out her notebook and turns to a fresh page. She begins to write...

[Karina Bassarov]

Karina observes the damage and the hurt people. Of course, she feels compassion for these people but doesn't think it is wise for her to throw her healing ray out. Afterall, she is on the downlow. If everyone knew who she was, she would be dragged back to Red Infinity HQ and that wouldn't be pleasant.
Will you tell no one that I am who I am. I would rather keep it hushed.
She says in a low voice. She is trusting. Call it nativette (sp? I know-_-) or plain dumbness.

[Garret thingysure]

Garret wakes up sometime in the middle of the night. He goes to the kitchen and has some milk and cookies before returning to bed. He snuggles up to Linnea and feels very content.

[Phillippe Montaille]

I wave goodbye to Cosette. After she has left, I turn to Anna.

"Well, Madmoiselle," I say cheerfully, "are you enjoying your quiche?"

[Petyr "Volt" Krueger]

Volt rolls his shoulders and sighs. The store is not only closed, but boarded shut. There is a relocation notice, but no address for that relocation. He hated government stores. And without a store, there was no food. Not an acceptable situation.

He supposed this ment he'd have to go to the Black Market again. The name was ment to be funny but it was far from it. The Black Market was just that, a place where people who had stuff to sell came to sell it. It was subpar and expensive but for those with no other choice.

Groaning, Volt turns and walks down another street. He knew his way well enough, though it had been a long time since he was in this end of town. Things hadn't changed much though. Nothing changed but these days.

[H-008]

Seven adopts a look of utter confusion.

"What? I'm sorry my lord, I don't understand."

[Oogie Boogie]

I laugh. "I don't think so!" I said. "I can see right past you." I said laughing. The blades lifted back to the ceiling. "Lets start on something else!" I said. Suddenly a side of the pit opened revealing three ganster looking machines. The had guns in thier hands. "Fire!" I yelled as they started fireing. I twirled with excitement. they had slot machine on them and they all landed on 7. Thier hats went up reveling red eyes as they shot at Prisma.

[Andrew Kasher]

"Um... d'you mind if I come in? It's kinda cold here. I'm used to rather warm weather.... m'from New Zealand... um...." Andrew stammers. He feels rather exposed, since he is only wearing a sheet.

[Cosette Hugo]

Cosette's hand writes feverishly as the wrds pour from her brain. She mouths the words as the ink flows from the pen forming her thoughts on the blank paper. Her tears stop as she writes feelings down.

*darkness envelopes the light as we walk our paths contently
we never look side to side just straight ahead so we never see it leave us
the light only dims and we think we are safe
however the shadows threaten to take us by force from behind
the false hopes and dreams keep the light burning infront of our eyes whilst all else goes black
how can we not see the darkness desend?
how can we not feel the cold that comes with the darkness?
I feel cold inside yet the light gives me false warmth
my brain can not comprehend that it is an illusion of light
when I reach the end of the road I turn around
and I am engulfed by the shadows without a sound save for my last cry of hope
it escapes my throat as it is torn out by my own self loathing...*

It was not finished but that is all she had written so far. She stops and puts the pens end in her mouth. As she thinks she chews on its end. Should she return home or explore this city a bit. She was not sure. She bends down again to write more.

[Eliza]

"Oh, Faust! lin-Sat came and scared me half to death!" I said shivering. "Wait! We have to rescue the others! Kahn is somewhere here, Oogie took him!" I said to him. *I was now confident, that Faust has arrived. Now we will win!* I thought

[Dr. Andrea Murdock]

Dr. Murdock decides to visit the home of one of her opertives. She looks at her list. Julia hasn't been reviewed lately.

She teleports to outside of Julia's apartment and knocks. She could easily have teleported into the apartment, but she likes to be polite.

[Xavier Jaures]

"I can keep that a secret, Karina. You can trust me."
He helps clean up an area that was damaged by the Bloodspeakers. This takes about an hour. When he is done he decides that he should take Karina to meet Phillipe.
"Would you like to meet my friend Phillipe now?"

[Karina Bassarov]

Karina shrugs and throws some debris into the trash.
Why not? It would be fun, right?
She smiles and hooks her arm around his.