Chapter 17: The Season for Taking

[Taniel and Taline Qassim]

"We sold few more cds than yesterday, Tal." Taniel says to his sister.

"Good for you, Tanny." Taline answer back.

They just closed the store and Taniel is currently counting the money. Taline is in the back room, reading her book. Taniel know that any minutes that his older twin sister will go to sleep.

"Hey Tal....."

"What is it?"

"Maybe we should visit our parents' graves...."

"You know we can't do that...."

"But..."

"Look Tanny. We are Anarchists and our parents were terrorists."

"I already know that...."

"Well....you already should know that there will be a chance that we will arrest."

"Alright then. Well.....what should we have for dinner?"

"Anything I guess....."

Taline exit the back room and heads upstairs to her room. Taniel put away the money before exiting their music store and walk to the nearest market.

[Linnea Korpela]

Linnea was quiet, a chill ran up her spine. The memories, she didn't want to remember anything that had happened. That event was exactly the reason why she was more apprehensive around new people.
"I have," she stated in a matter or fact voice several moments later. She shivered and looked toward the sky, she also noticed the sudden change in the atmosphere.

[Jumala Keitoleinen]

"Yes, well, I am the head of a company. I am supposed to enter some stupid contest for..something I suppose I shouldn't talk about. But it might be a useful contract. I GUESS I could get back to work." Keitoleinen replies. He has been wasting an awful amount of time. His mission has been accomplished. He has sent flowers to Linnea.

"Well, if you EVER do find time. You should close up shop and I will give you a tour of my mansion in Helsinki...or one of Sota's factories there. I get very bored. I also get lonely. I can give you my teleportation booth code for my mansion. In case..you also feel bored or lonely." Keitoleinen states to her. He grabs a paper and pen from behind her counter and scribbles down the teleportation booth code for his mansion.

"There now. I guess that's it."

[Horacio Hatfield]

"I've been fortunate. I've never been captured, but I've sure been chased around. And for what? I don't do anything. I think I have suffered enough in this life." He whispers. He wanders along with Linnea, staying close. They even pass a cemetary. "Oh, but this conversation is too dark. Let me think of something light and happy! Let's see, well, maybe I will find another job working for Allmart. Stocking at night isn't so bad. Sometimes I could take the...very defective products home. I had a little collection."

[Linnea Korpela]

"That sounds interesting, I'm sure you saw lots of cool things," she turned toward him. "What sort of things did you have in your collection?"

[Horacio Hatfield]

"I had a lot of broken toys. Some toys wouldn't be sold because they had small parts or sharp points. I had a baker doll that came with a real knife. It wasn't safe for kids, so they took it out of the stores. Or sometimes I would get clothes that were poorly made...such as one arm too long, or the head hole was too small. I wonder if any of that stuff is back in my home...or if they burned it to the ground. It's been almost a year now since I was in Florida." Horacio explains as they walk.

As they walk, they come upon a van. The van looks to be a flower delivery van. He notices a man talking to a man and a woman about what is in the van. Horacio takes a step back and hides behind the corner of a building.

[Lucio De Saldanha]

To Yasmin

Lucio walks down the street and notices a cute little girl. She looks lost or hungry. He feels all too eager to help her. He wonders how old she is and if she is alone. He feels nervous about approaching her, like he is around all females, even the young ones, but at least it isn't as bad. He runs up to the young girl and steals her hat her head wear. He laughs. "Hey there, made you look!" He laughs and gives her back the hat. "Hey, why did the crow listen to the radio?" Lucio asks the strange girl.

[~Ophelia Vespera~]

Ophelia was surprised, actually shocked, when he mentioned he was head of a company.. Not just any company, but SOTA?! Oh Heavens!! That's how she knew his name! Sweet Mary! What if she had said something to offend him?! She could've been put out of business in a snap!

She took the piece of paper with his teleport code on it and gawked at it for a moment. She was completely stupified! Astounded! He actually gave her his teleport code? She wasn't sure whether to feel lucky or like a booty call, or whether this was good or bad.

"Thank you.. Uh.." Ophelia shook the stupified expression off her face and searched avidly in her apron pocket for a business card. After a few seconds she was able to find one bent card and handed it to him, "H-here.. Um.. It was nice doing business with you. Have a good day, sir."

[Yasmin Seyyedi]

"I don't know, mister." Yasmin reply after getting her hat back.

She is somewhat mad at the man, but didn't show it on her face. She is little surprise to find someone walking at this time of the evening.

"Are you a stalker?"

[Lucio De Saldanha]

"Because he wanted to listen to music." Lucio replies to the little girl. Just then he ALSO sees the van with the flower logo on it. He also notices Linnea and the ugly guy who was at the Marx Mas party. He waves at them both. "HEY GUYS. HOW ARE YOU DOING?!!!" He shouts at them. He looks at the little girl. "What's your name? I think I'll call you Tang. I like Tang. Have you ever drank Tang? It's like...orange." He says quickly.

[Heikki Toivonen]

"You can look in some of the boxes. You'll see it's only plants. We're delivering to Allmart warehouses." Heikki explains to Tristan. He turns around and notices a group of loud distracting people. Well, maybe one loud distracting person. This might be good though, since it could allow them to escape Tristan due to the distraction.

"I wonder what's going on over there. It looks suspicious." Heikki says aloud. "Don't you think it look suspicious. I hope those people aren't ...flower thiefs." Heikki states to Zindy.

[Yasmin Seyyedi]

"This guy is crazy........" Yasmin thought to herself.

Then agaim she did met some 'crazy people' from her past. Yasmin then watch Lucio wave at two other people.

"My name is Yasmin and no, I never drank Tang before." she answer and watch van drive down the street.

[Jumala Keitoleinen]

With that bit of business concluded, Keitoleinen leaves the flower shop without another word. He wanders across the street to the nearest teleportation booth. This one is particularly nice. It is a sea green color with gold trim. It has some marble on it as well, and carved into it is a lotus design. Teleportation booths are works of art in themselves.

He punches in the code for his office in Helsinki and in a flash, he is there. His desk is covered with papers to look at. Most of them are designs submitted to him by his design team for the contest that Ariel put forth the other day. He starts looking through some of the designs, but none of them impress him too greatly.

[Lucio De Saldanha]

"How about I give you some tang later? How does that sound?" He asks the little girl. He pats her on the head. "So what's a little girl like you doing out here all by yourself?" Lucio asks the girl. He smiles and skips up onto the sidewalk.

[Tristan Tuzanic]

The distraction works.

Tristan turns his head and notices Linnea, the woman who he tricked and who he sent to Manalist prison.

"OMG! She's totally going to hate me! She doesn't understand that I had to do it! Oh god, what do I do? I hope she isn't still mad at me. It was soooo not my fault!" Tristan exclaims.

It is too much for him to see Linnea. He starts to cry for himself and all of the horrible things that he does to people. He does this mostly for attention though.