"Beautiful," she remarks, smirking darkly. She leads him away from the desk to the stairs, the doors now uniformly open for their purposes. She could have done this as well but it's better to give her breathing room after last time, better to do it loudly like this. May as well make themselves known.
Down they go.
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Gus anticipated this, and responds to the outbreak of alarm bells with only a casual tilt of the head. Asadi is here, and quickly, too. Favoring an approach even less subtle than last time, it would appear. Well, let her make her noise. Gus never had a wealth of faith for this sort of far-world technology ROMAC seems to love so much, even less so after witnessing what Asadi could do with it. As such Ms. Baker has been sealed off un-electronically, under old-fashioned lock and key. He and his pair of guards - the only two ROMAC had to spare in light of the day's generalized chaos - are stationed some doors down, waiting near the main stair entrance to the hall.
He slips off his jacket, folds it with great care, lays it flat on the unused chair beside him.
"You will not fire on her," he tells them again. He does not like to repeat himself but he likes less to be misunderstood. "She is to be taken alive."
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Down they go.
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Gus anticipated this, and responds to the outbreak of alarm bells with only a casual tilt of the head. Asadi is here, and quickly, too. Favoring an approach even less subtle than last time, it would appear. Well, let her make her noise. Gus never had a wealth of faith for this sort of far-world technology ROMAC seems to love so much, even less so after witnessing what Asadi could do with it. As such Ms. Baker has been sealed off un-electronically, under old-fashioned lock and key. He and his pair of guards - the only two ROMAC had to spare in light of the day's generalized chaos - are stationed some doors down, waiting near the main stair entrance to the hall.
He slips off his jacket, folds it with great care, lays it flat on the unused chair beside him.
"You will not fire on her," he tells them again. He does not like to repeat himself but he likes less to be misunderstood. "She is to be taken alive."