17:30 June 20th, Area 39.
@Mercedes, Walks & BB:
Karina speaks to you all via commlink.
<<I appreciate your discretion. I don't know how you got that piece of information out of Mr. Robinson but that must have been a hell of a bit of smooth talking. I wouldn't trust that conniving sonuvabitch farther than I'd throw him, so if you have some way of checking out that info I'd definitely do that. Without access to KE computers there's no way Mephisto can really check out the list of detainees in this short amount of time so hopefully you can come up with something better. In any case, like I said before, tomorrow at 19:00 hours the sub-orbital jump back to Puget Sound is going to leave Area 39, so you have until then to try and pull something together. Once we hit Seattle we're gonna have to make it an in-and-out operation. Good luck team.>>
@Walks:
You start thinking about the time you spent last night communing with the Moon Maiden. You were dead tired and don't even remember how you fell asleep but you vaguely only now begin to remember the dreams you had. Something is different this time around. The last time you went on the hunt deep into the heart of Redmond, she was trying to warn you.....you felt almost a push of resistance to every step. Now it's almost the opposite. You feel her edging you on. Her mood even more nervous and tense than before, you feel her instead pushing you forward to do what needs to be done. Hopefully further communing will bring greater clarity you think to yourself.
The only bit of the long dream that you remember is of a very hot room. It's a medicine lodge come to think of it.....illuminated by the bright orange glow of a forge. A Souix metal worker drenched in sweat...a blacksmith if you will....pounding away at something he's crafting. You cannot see his face, but you circle the sweltering lodge to see what he's doing. Something soaked in red....blood come to think of it. With every blow you hear a rattling.....the rattling of a chain, come to think of it. He's forging a chain and it's drenched in blood. He begins to turn his head and you wake up.