Chapter 11: The Shadow in Our Caves

[Sy Lecy]

Sy looked down for a moment and tried to remember her own story. All she could remember was that she had lived in the US and had gotten away from that. Everything else was bits here and pieces there. Ever since she had been chosen here memory had been shredded so to speak.

"Beautiful? You must not get out much. But your not too bad yourself there."

She winks to make light of what she is about to say next. It couldn't hurt to tell what she did know. No one would care about her enough to find anything out. No one would care about her story. What she remembered anyway.

"John to be honest I can not remember my story. It's funny all I CAN remember is I use to live in the US and somehow my family raised the money to send me here and I was raised over here. They didnt want me to be in all of the radiation. But thats sad isn't it? Someone not knowing their past? I mean sad or pathetic right. But I came to work here to pay the bills when I got old enough and I rent out the room upstairs. Life is hard but at least I'm still living it right? Sorry to be depressing."

She places her bag between her legs on the floor where she can reach it easily if needed. She wonders what he wants. What his game is. If his story will play out now that she has told some of her own.

[Aubrey 16]

Aubrey thinks for a moment about helping Annika, but then decides that her matter with Bambi is more important. Annika was a good creditor, but Bambi was a bad dresser, Bambi definitely needed Aubrey's assistance more.

"Good luck!" She calls after her, before putting the phone back to her ear.

"I'm back. So where are we meeting?"

[Sakari Lehtinen]

Sakari has been wandering around aimlessly for several months after being scared off by Kaschei and his men. He knows it's only a matter of time before they find him and make him work for them again, but that just makes his freedom all the more enjoyable. Sakari walks into a cafe and sees a semi familiar face. He squints as he approaches her.

"Ahh yes, it's... You..!" He says, awkwardly pointing towards Hilja, not remembering her name. He orders a cup of coffee and sits beside her.

"So uh... What are... you... doing, in uh... This place..?" He says, not really knowing where he is either.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

"I am here...just hanging out with these two folks." I say to the stranger who I am not sure who I have met before. Since he seems to know me, I offcer him a seat. It is always very embarassing when you don't remember someone, so I decide that I will play along and pretend to know him. Maybe he will reveal something that jogs my memory.

"So...how have things been with you. You look good!" I say to compliment him, and anyway, he does look pretty good. I assume this hasn't changed even if I did know him.

[Bambi Engel]

Bambi listens to the conversation, a bit confused. So creditors could go rogue, too? A rogue creditor was definitely something she never wanted to meet.

"Well..." She checks her watch, thinking it over. "I have off today, so I have the whole day free, but I was thinking of cleaning my closet out later in the evening." The thing really didn't need to be cleaned too badly with the way she perfectionated everything, but she liked to have things to do.

She almost laughed at the Cinderella reference. It was surprising Aubrey knew of the movie, she only did because the deer she was named after was in a Disney movie.

"You know where the stores are, so any where's good for me. I have a booth near my apartment." She wondered if any Aubrey would be going to the ball, but probably not. She couldn't imagine why there'd be creditors there aside from to be bodyguards. The woman who led Global Bank always had those things as body guards.

Scary woman... She thinks, shuddering lightly despite the fact she only really saw her during the ball.

[Sakari Lehtinen]

"You do too!" Sakari replies enthusiastically. He looks between the other two who are with her, to see if they mind that he's sitting here, they don't seem to.

"So yes, you know, just running from the law, running from debt, running from angry people who can't seem to take a joke." He scratches his chin as the barista sets down his coffee.

"By the way..." Sakari leans in and puts his hand up to his mouth, shielding it from one side as if he's about to ask something important.

"Where are we..?" He half whispers.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

"Hel....sinki.." I whisper back. For some reason I feel like emphasizing the hell today. Now that I have learned about these things concerning him, I am not sure if I do know him or want to know him, since he sounds a little dangerous. But then, you can't really judge a person until you know them.

"Well...are you safe?" I ask him. "Are people after you?" I ask with concern.

[Sakari Lehtinen]

Sakari shrugs with an almost belligerent indifference.

"Well you know, people can be persistent sometimes." He nods to himself, then sips his coffee.

"And at least I'm still in Helsinki... Wait... Shit, I'm still in Helsinki..!" Sakari tenses up, then looks around the room in a paranoid fashion, then leans back in his chair.

"Ahh this is a nice town... How are things with you? Who are your friends?" He says, nodding towards her two guests.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

"That there is Akira, he is a Creditor, but not like any that I have met." I say quietly. I point discreetly at Kizu. "And she works for Genetech. She is a scientist and that is her..bodyguard?" I say as a question, since I am not sure if I understand it.

"I really just met them. Akira offered to buy me some food, so, I couldn't really say no. Maybe he will treat you as well..if you pay him back ..of course."

I take a nibble from my scone. "Want some? It's pretty good."

[Sakari Lehtinen]

"Why yes, I'd love a boit" Sakari replies in a terrible English accent. He takes a bite of the scone.

"Would you mind catching this Akira? I mean I can cover the tip, that's no problem. Thanks bud." Sakari replies without waiting for him to answer.

"That's awfully nice of you to take this fine young lady out to a cafe. Especially being a creditor and all, that seems slightly ironic to me. But hey, I'll make sure to pay you back." I say, winking and smirking.

[Lena Eva Aysel]

Lena returns to where she was previously staying, deciding to have one last night's sleep there. As usual, she dreams of various events in her past. The bad ones, of course. She wakes up in a cold sweat.

You can never dream about the happy memories, can you?

She sighs softly. The dreams were starting to get very annoying. Someone had suggested once that she see this one human. What was his name? Wracking her brain, Dr. Lonrott floats up.

Maybe it'd help. Packing her things up, she moves them back to the apartment she had rented with Markus before finding the man in the phone book. She purses her lips when she sees his profression.

However, she had already made up her mind, and so she takes a booth to the location of his office. She quickly wishes she hadn't upon entering the place. People wandered around, mummering to themselves or gripping things.

Curling a lip, she quickly moves down the hall, deciding to try a random door as the front desk was empty. "Oh, sorry-" She begins, noting the man in the room. He looked kind of like someone who had been described to her before. Was he on the Hand's hit list?

No, that wasn't it. Who else could've possibly given her a description? ... Tuesday! As if she'd be lucky enough to stumble upon Malak unguarded. "Say, what's your name?"

((Post to Malak.))

[Anya Louteius]

To Tristan

Anya closed the door to her dressing room and she locked it. She kicked over a few things and she covered her face and she looked over her hands and she bit her lip. He wasn't there. She sat on the couch and she opened up her small box and took out her razor and her tourniquet and her sewing kit. She let the tears roll down her cheek and she felt so stressed out, but the again, this was her job and it was always stressful.

She placed the touriquet around her arm and waited opening and closing her hand, building up the blood. When she slit her wrist it would probably go everywhere. She let the blade dance across her wrist and she was right. It squirted, but she ignored it and let it bleed for a moment. She started to sew it up after a minute and then she bandaged it. She left the tourniquet around her arm and then after she was sure she had sewn it up right, hse released it and then she lay back against the couch.

She was about to light up a cigarette and then she heard a knock on the door. She lit the cig and walked to the door, she saw a young man, about early twenties, maybe, she wouldn't have known, she wasn't good with guessing games. She smiled up at him and leaned against the door. "Can I help you? Because you don't look like a fan, so what do you need?" She puffed on the cig and the blew it up into the air. She left the door open and she walked back into the room, motioning for him to follow and close the door.

[John Duddy]

"Yea that is a sad story," John replied again mesmerized by ur beauty. The food came and they ate in silence. Duddy knew that Sy did not want any questions. He kept looking at her hoping it was not freaking her out that he was staring, but damn she was gorgeous. "I got to go, I have a flight to cacth, the Manalists need my expertise at another base for a day or so. Well Sy I guess this is it for now, do you have a phone or something, maybe I can give you a call?"


OCC: Yea sorry for the short posts Sy and everyone else its really crazy at work and home right now.

[Sy Lecy]

OOC-it's ok John understandable.

Sy hand been putting her food in her napkin the whole time to keep John from knowing she didnt eat. She didnt want him to think she was anything but a normal person. Howevere she did drink her cola and smiled from time to time sorry for the silence.

"If you must go back to work its ok. You can always find me here one way or another. The number for the place is on the pack of matches in the middle of the table there. The boss can connect it to my room. I guess this is goodbye then John."

She gets up and goes back to the bar telling her boss goodnight passing through a beaded curtain going up some metal stairs that circled round up to her apartment. She had not learned his whole story. Maybe another time.

She put her bag on the floor beside of her bed and decided to just lay down and rest for a bit. If she didnt take it easy she would surely pass out again.

[Kizu Sensou & Hex]

Kizu nods to Hilja's friend when he joins us. So many people. She had no idea that people just randomly showed up in everyones lives like this. That outside of genetech she would be introduced to so many. She took a sip of her drink and began to think about genetech and how she met people everyday during tours but never really met anyone.

She listened to Hilja and her friend but interjected nothing for she felt out of place and uncomfortable now. She became the scientist observing and learning the behaviors of people who were already friends.