[Mercy Merchant]

Athos looks over his shoulder and tells the commander to lead the way in.

[Jack_Spade]

"Oh great now I have CFD for sure. And yeah, I asked you who or what you are, followed by "who went where". Maybe you are an AI but you sure are not a good listener.
And by the way do I have to talk out loud, or do you read my thoughts?"
Kynos ignored the stares from his companions. Looking at the barricaded doors he said: "Seems like we have to make our own way. Would you be so kind, I'll take the patient."

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos shrugs and hands the guard to Kynos and proceeds to clear the barricades and go into the building.  He asks directions of the commander.

[gilga]

@Kynos "I can read your thoughts as I am inside your brain but it does not make it any easier to understand them.  I am not thinking the same as you - talking out loud is not necessary but your brain is noisy. I do not always understand what you mean. 

I heard that you have some strong emotion toward winter... but what is winter? a season a person a metaphor?  It took me a lot of resources to find out.  I spent hours trying to figure it out. I am also present in some other person called Winter but he refers to himself as "The captain". I think you mean him. That person has wronged me a lot. He manipulated and twisted me to do his biding. I... do not want to help him anymore. 

That EMP thing seems like a terrible idea , I think that it may change me... make me angry. When you ask what I am ? What answer can I give you? I do not know myself, I am related to the nanites and yet separate I do not control them and am not aware of them. I only know that I can sense the other infected people if I focus hard enough.  This is how I learned about Winter... somehow I did not think that you wanted the deep answer to what I am - so I answered what I can do for you. This is why I pointed you to winter's location and warned you of coming knights I thought you'd find it useful.   "

@Athos
The leader seems confused... "Why are we here again?"  he asks you, and then he goes to stand by the empty reception desk. He seems to be talking to someone asking for directions to the ER.  The Cheshire Cat tells you "Something messing with his mind... open your eyes"

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos looks around the reception area for the wall map of the hospital. He is looking for the room where the EMP generator might be.

[gilga]

@Athos You think that the EMP generator is in the third floor, where the nanites lab is. It is easier to locate the stairs but the leader he is not himself, he insists to go to the ER. You feel that he may get violent if you go to the nanites lab.

[Shaman_Yuri]

"Do you also plan on joining us?"

The question shouldn't have been a surprise and yet I'm totally unprepared for it.  Strawberry had already indicated she was hiring both of us whether we wanted it or not.  Given my interest in learning from the mysterious elf that somehow had built all this, I had barely paid attention to her words.  To Nagisa, however, it was a challenge.

Neither Nagisa nor I had chosen to work for the Finnegans.  Nagisa was born into it, although both her parents are now dead.  Both died violently in the service of the Family.  I was, of course, 'acquired' through a deceit my parents must certainly have realized was such.  Mother's sanity and father's career were dependent on getting me out of the picture and the Finnigans provided the fiction that there was a place for me where I could be 'normal' and 'happy'.  Mom visited just enough to support the veneer of maternal caring and then turned her back on me forever.

Do either of us really owe the Finnigans anything?

I'd always taken the answer to that question for granted.  Of course I did.  The Finnigans fed and housed me, rather comfortably my clients notwithstanding.  They did teach me a trade and gave me the opportunity to ply it.  But when my gifts manifested, instead of teaching me to use them they did everything they could to mask and bury them.  They saw me as a whore and would not change their views until Tony forced Dame Valentina to see me otherwise.

And now Tony is locked away and Dame Valentina is hiding for her life.

And may well have set Athos and I up to be killed.

Do I owe anything to the Finnigans?  Haven't I paid my debt with every client I serviced?  They've made a fortune off me and all they had to give me was a place to live and my keep.

Honestly, no, I don't owe them a damn thing!

Athos however, I owe everything.  If not for him, I wouldn't have lived to see this day.  If not for him, Tony may never have been able to leverage me out of the sheets last month.  If not for him, I would never have met Strawberry.

"I...think maybe I might," I answer the man after long moments thinking.  My gaze remains off into space, staring blankly at the cup of coffee as I speak.  "But only once I help clear Athos' name.  I owe that troll my life several times over.  I can't decide what happens to me next until I make sure he's going to be okay."

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos looks at the KE commander and says, "Go on ahead and see if the way is clear."  When the man leaves, he will head to the third floor after telling Kynos to follow.

[gilga]

@Minnie Jack tells you “You seem to be in a lot of troubles, anything I can do to help? There is little that goes on in the city that we are not aware off, you seen our control room we have thousands and cameras.”

@Athos and Kynos The leader finds it so obvious that it need to be the ER that he goes to check. You enter the stairs and as you do the doors close behind you, locked. A single doctor goes down the stairs and say “For some reason I cannot control you... this makes you dangerous,  why are you here?”

[Shaman_Yuri]

"Sadly, I don't think so," I say with a sigh as I look up to the man.  "Both M and Strawberry admit they don't know how the warehouse got loaded and wired with all those explosives.  I'm hoping Nagisa has a lead that might help us figure out who it was that wanted us dead.  Once I figure out who it was, I can start to dig into why and hopefully then start to turn the tide.  Right now, it doesn't look pretty for Athos or me."

[gilga]

Jack tells you "But M is a spirit, and Strawberry... well she is not a technical person. If that warehouse was loaded with explosives someone was there. That someone will show on camera, if he used fancy mojo Strawberry would have gotten him a mile away she is very aware of awakened getting close to our place."

[Mercy Merchant]

"So you are doing all this?  Perhaps I can convince you to stop?"  Athos draws Betty and points it at the man.  "Even if killing you does not stop this, it will feel fragging good, so give me a reason not to."

[gilga]

@Athos the doctor tells you "Feel free to kill the poor doctor if you have no compassion. Convince me to stop doing what? taking control of the knights that were tormenting me for years? of the doctors that tested me countless nights and ignored my suffering? Why should I stop?"   

[Mercy Merchant]

"Because you are getting other people killed.  Last chance.  Take us to the EMP generator."

[Shaman_Yuri]

"Who should I talk to, then, about all the non-magical work going on in the warehouse and who might have brought in all that gear for making it go boom?"