Chapter 20: The Eyes of God

[Momo Kurokawa]

"This is a nice place." Momo says to Max as they enter his home. "You have more cars than a car dealership." Momo remarks. Once in the home, she waits for Max and Dinari. "I'll have...some sort of fruity soda if you have anything." She asks.
While she is talking to Max and Dinari, the first robots arrive in Helsinki. They seek out Sota's main office for an attack. As far as she knows, Keitoleinen has not yet detected that anything is amiss.

[Li Violette]

I can't help but laugh out loud, which must look strange to anyone near me at that moment. "That's funny. Well, she is." I think to Cephrien. That ends the conversation for now. I leave the office and head home. I have a few places where I stay. My main residence is a place in Beijing, but I also have a home in Switzerland by the Economic Council since I work there so often. I stay in a small house in Lucern. It is near some apartments and a park.

I return home and take off my shoes so I don't track in. I then go to my kitchen and start making myself some tea.

[Kith Keitoleinen]

"Yes, I'm here...and I'm fine. I guess this means you will have to leave Linnea alone for a month." Kith states to his father. As they are talking, another ..something...flies overhead. Kith looks up, but once again, has a hard time identifying what it is.

"I'm not going to waste my time here. I will stop by the office later and see if there is work for me to do. Otherwise, I hope you keep your word about Linnea." Kith says angrily to his father. There isn't much he can do though. If Keitoleinen changes his mind, it isn't as though Kith has any clout or any ability to stop him. Kith turns away from his father and thinks nothing of the objects he had seen in the sky. He assumes it is nothing and decides that he is going to try to find Linnea and Ophelia to see if they were able to rescue their friend from prison.

[Frieda Artz Lehrer]

Frieda walked in the front door of the house that she shared with her brother, opening the door she stood there quietly for a moment before realizing that there wasn't anyone home again. This was a relief, she enjoyed when her brother wasn't home, which for the last week was often. Putting her coat away in the closet she went up to her room where she placed her school bag on her desk and sat on her bed turning on the television. She would relax here for a couple of minutes before she proceeded to begin her home work, and she had a lot of studio work to complete.

[††Venice "Cephrien" Ashgrove††]

By the time that Li had gotten home, Cephrien was already there. He calmly waited in her kitchen, sitting on one of the tables with his legs crossed over one another. He silently watched her come into the kitchen. She had not noticed him come in and began to make some tea.

He took out the tape recorder he used to record the meeting and began to play the tape. It was pretty loud, so it would probably startle her.

[gunther]

((To Archer, Bonifaz, Heikki, and Amelia))

The alcoholics in this town was definately troublesome, but Gunther found them to be a necessary asset in terms of money- not them directly, hangovers got most of the credit but if it was not for alcoholics there would BE no hangovers to exploit. Gunther had just overseen a shipment of his patented hangover cure which he had then distributed to make himself a pretty penny; though he had never actually tested the drugs, Gunther didn't spend to much time worrying about the welfare of the "costumers" that bought his stuff.

He had then decided to take a walk and had just entered into a park when he notices a group of people nearby that he recognized in a second. "Guten Tag!" Gunther calls out; excited to see fellow Null members out and about. Heikki however, looked worse for wear. "How did it go?" Gunther inquired, refering to the socialist meeting he had heard about; meanwhile watching the Creditor shake a tree with amusement.

[Archer Aylmer]

I sit down leaning against a tree and think over everything Bonifaz has said. I don't really care about his familial problems, since I see both him and Heikki as associates and not friends by any stretch of the imagination. Mostly I just feel exhausted and displaced.

"Well then... Perhaps we should bomb the surveillance system work sights. That would do well to stall the project, and probably even scare off some of the workers and managers."

I shrug and take a deep breath. Society is a daunting opponent. I feel better when Amelia and Heikki return, however. There is security in numbers. This feeling is only amplified by Gunther's arrival. I look up at him with a somber expression and say the first thing that comes to mind...

"I wish I were a machine and lived in a world filled with machines where we were all programmed not to believe in anything."

[Calithin Crest]

"That's ridiculous! You are forever in trouble. I think you should... Be less in trouble. You should try that."

This sounds like a really great plan to me and I'm happy I can suggest it to Linnea. I honestly think it would make her life much easier to follow my advice.

"I don't really understand how you know Kith, however. Hopefully he's succeeded in his efforts to appease my father. I'm afraid that if he doesn't, it will all come back to you. So everything is good now, then? The way Kith made it sound you and your friends were hold up somewhere being attacked my monsters."

I roll my eyes when I think of Kith. I really don't like him very much at all. He's a bother.

"Be careful when you go to the prison-- there's a good possibility that it may be a trap. You know Keito. Not that any of this is any of my business. Here I am just intruding all up in your life. My bad, Linny."

[Linnea Korpela]

Linnea felt like she had been scolded by Calithin when he told her his plan. She really tried to stay out of trouble but when there is someone like Keito in your life your always getting into trouble.
"Kith...just showed up at my door, he was looking for Keito and for some reason thought I would know where he was," Linnea shrugged but then remembered she was on the phone and nobody but Ophelia would see her expressions anyway.
She didn't even think that Keito would set up a trap at the prison, that would be like him to do.
"No your not intruding, thanks for the advice Calithin. Your keeping me out of trouble," she smiled but again forgot that nobody would see her expressions. Linnea would have to look at the note to see what Keito wrote on it, just in case he said that they had broken some law and should be thrown into the darkest dungeon.

[Calithin Crest]

"Well, call if you get into anything too bad over at the prison and I'll handle it. I'm going to check in with Kith later to make sure everything has been resolved... I somehow doubt it. Ugh. This is crazy. I hate that things like this happen. Hopefully your friend is all right."

I check my watch and see that it's getting late. I wonder what Kith is doing with some apprehension and frown.

"Take care of yourself Linny. I've got to go."

With that I hang up my phone and start scouring the streets for a teleportation booth. Once I find one I have myself transported back home to London.

[Li Violette]

I begin pouring myself some tea when...some noise comes on. I almost drop the tea cup and turn around quickly to see that it is only Cephrien and the tape recording of the meeting. I take a sip of tea and listen carefully to the meeting. It isn't much I don't already know, but still it is interesting to hear the voices of those involved. It is particularly interesting when they talk about possible things they could do against the sattelites and blimps.

"You can turn that off for now. I will listen again later..." I tell Cephrien. "Would you like some tea? Or anything?"

"You did a good job. I am very pleased that no one was captured and everything was resolved. It was a good thing you and Kith were there. I don't know if Socialist Revolution knows how much they owe you."

[Linnea Korpela]

"Thanks Calithin," Linnea smiled again, she liked talking to him. But she felt bad that Calithin was getting upset about all of this trouble, and it was Linnea's fault that all of the drama was happening.
When he hung up she felt like she had been forced to walk the plank of a pirate ship. Pulling the note out her pocket she read what Keito had written.
"Ophelia...I think things just got complicated..." Linnea gave her the note.

[Salome Weil]

I feel a little disappointed that no one was interested in moving the meeting to France. It would have been much closer. However, since I am the only rebel in this meeting who is from France, I can see the reluctance of the others to move the meeting to somewhere where they have no ties.

I carry a small box through the teleportation booth and once teleported to Helsinki, I start walking with the other rebels to Charon's home.

[Bonifaz Artz-Lehrer]

"Nicht so besonders." Bonifaz replies to Gunther in reference to the meeting not going well. "The meeting was attacked and we fled before we found out the outcome. However, once outside, we were confornted by a Creditor. Fortunately, Amelia was able to deal with that." Bonifaz explains.

Bonifaz watches Amelia attack the tree as he speaks. "That's a good idea Archer. Just attack the factories or buildings. I think that would be better than a kidnapping."

He turns his attention back to Gunther. "We're trying to do something about the..Eyes of God." He explains.

[Armin Lehrer]

Armin follows the other socialists and rebels back to Helsinki. He is carrying a bundle of newspapers from the HQ in London. The newspapers need to be distributed, but, with all of the chaos, it is uncertain if they will get out. He follows behind Salome and Hilja.
"It's nice to be back in Helsinki. Maybe after the meeting, I should give everyone a little history tour. It might help the comrades learn a little about the city." He suggests. He is a history nerd, and especially interested in the history of rural areas. However, he is also interested in the history of buildings and things in Helsinki.