Answer: You get the feeling that is a hard task in the permanent sense. Whoever Sierra is afraid of, she has her claws in tight. In the short term, it would mean sincerely believing her, understanding what Sierra means by dangerous, learning more ab…
I get close to him, so close we are sharing breath, and whisper. "You hear it lots because it's everywhere. It's everywhere because the cameras, the mics, are everywhere... Ask yourself, why would the walls of a mine whirl?"
I lick my lips, temp…
I didn't even realize that he wasn't following me into the room. I get up and look at him through the doorway, but I don't cross it.
I realize that if I was probably anyone else, this would have gone so differently. I wonder if Esco is disappoint…
His touch is so foreign to me that I shiver a bit at it. I don't let it last though, pulling away before he gets bolder. If he doesnt believe me, I cant make him, but I won't sign his death warrant either.
If it makes me a coward, it makes me a c…
"Reese, yes, I need to know if hes alright." I look at Esco and at his hand. The one thing he's right about is that I'm not going anywhere. I don't know if that is selfish, but I'm not going back. I can't.
"I wish you understood." I say, "I'm dange…
When I feel Esco's hand on me, I scramble away so fast I don't even have time to think before I've got my legs back out from under me and my back against the door.
My eyes are wide with fear, true and sudden fear.
"Do you have a death wish?" I h…
I look up at him and he's so sincere, something in me just cracks.
I bite my lip hard, but it doesn't help, the sob rips through me. There is so much, so much, I can't put my thoughts in order. My walls fall and for the first time since I found my…
I don't say anything and I don't look up when Esco opens the door. That cloak gets a little heavier when I hear his footsteps. It sticks me to the floor.
I'm breathing, but the guilt and the fear? That's still whirling around inside me. And the hate? The hate I feel for myself - it's like one of Gloriana's cloaks - cut to fit and heavy enough to weigh me down.
When the shaking stops I start to actu…
Once everything's out I lay down on the floor, my back up against the cabinets. I can't stop shaking.
I don't even know if Reese is alive. I never checked on Tayt. I know these things are wrong, shameful, but I can't feel anything through the comp…
I was never in any real danger, of course I wasn't. Just all the people around me. Frack.
Fracking Gloriana. Fracking DVFP. Bile rises cant stop it. I feel green and dizzy.
We need to come to terms with Ziggy. She's right, the next person who Glo…
I sigh and put my head in my hands, visibly fading. "Zig, I toldya I don't run the place. Hoolies, I just want to know who told you about me and why. Do I have to worry about more incidents like this?" I look up, meeting her eyes. "Let me help you …
[Sierra wants to read person.]
I shake my head. "You already gave yourself away, old woman. Remember, 'It's all lies, pretty pretty.' Can you not be honest with me now, after all this."
I look at JD and Esco and I know I'm gonna be sick. Still, I have to know.
I look at Ziggy and farthoom I probably really screwed this up. I sit back at the piano bench, hopefully with some grace, mixed in with weariness. "Yeah, we're square, can'…
I close my eyes, blazes if this was all for nothing... no Reese is tough. "The people first, Zig, then the cargo. The mines are our livelyhood here Zig."
I look around at the customers and the girls, gauging their feelings.
I open my eyes and I wish I hadn't, but it's done. I only have one button left. I might as well see this through.
"I'd be honored."
For a second I contemplate buttoning up my coat again, but decide this is faster. At this point I just want to get…
I almost laugh, at the same time it makes me a little sick, how he could flirt at a time like this?
"I thought you were famous for knowing a lot of pretty girls." I lick my lips and move to the next button. My left shoulder completely exposed exce…
My hands are visibly trembling now and I hate myself for it. I can practically feel all their stares on my flesh and it makes me want things - crazy things - like to hide under Gloriana's bed or feel the fine fabric of the blindfold.
A part of me …
I take one shoulder out of the coat, hoping to hold their attention before place my fingers on the third button.
"I'm saying you have less than a minute to do something. It's your business Esco, but we gotta stop that raid -- and Ziggy is the one …
I move slowly, as slowly as I dare and still maintain their attention. It was only a year ago that I realized that I could do anything like this and this is by far the largest group of people I have ever pulled this trick with. I swallow the bile in…
I'm sick. This makes me sick. She's looking at me, they are all looking at me and I can barely keep my hands from shaking.
My hands find the top button of my dark blue coat. I loosen it from its hole and the room goes quiet.
Bile rises to my thr…
My heart stops when she looks right at me. She knows. She knows I know the security on that rig. And there is only one way she could know...
I should have killed Gloriana, I think coldly, and am startled by it. I've never wanted to physically harm …
I play the song slow so I am only half way through by the time Ziggy gives her ultimatum. I glanced up at her and that's when I notice Tayt. He's staring at me, like he can't quite understand what he is seeing. He must not have known I was here... m…