Faust feels his pains subside. He is no longer wounded.

She is gone.




Allie promptly manages to make a Boy Scouts Field Splint. She feels a bit less uncomfortable now, and her arm should heal properly over time.





Backsmasher grabs his clippers and removes the license plates from the car, then disables the wireless transponder. Should make it less traceable. Now, as to getting to a safe house...

He does know of a pretty good one back in Redmond, but that entails... Well, getting back to Seattle. Time to see if your navigation skills are up to par!



What will you do?

Allie jumps back into the car and opens the glove compartment. The baby looks fine! Completely unhurt, in fact, and still with the same neutral baby expression, suckling on its finger. Tuff baby!




Backsmasher gets his GPS to plot a route back to the city. Apparently, you're rather close to a dirt road, which connects to a main highway after a couple dozen miles. From there, should be smooth sailing, at least until you get to the Border.

Satisfied, he grabs Faust and the sobbing elf from the ground and stuffs them back in the car, entering it afterwards.




Vargall guns the engine and begins to drive out of the clearing, headed north. It's a bumpy ride, but eventually you find an old dirt path and begin following it. You pass an old native american man sitting on a tree stump along the way. He waves at you casually.



MEANWHILE



Bright decides to put his trigonometry lessons to good use. Picking up an old synthpaper map, he marks where the flight started- somewhere along Bellevue-Redmond Bridge. They were moving east, roughly as fast as a... Ballistic missile? Seems close enough. Now let's see... Range is V squared times sin of two theta over g, now taking into account the fact that their Y position was not zero at that point-

He draws a big circle in the eastern mountains, between Skykomish and Chimney Rock. That's... pretty far away, and NAN territory to boot. Technically, his fake SIN should be good enough to get him through the border, but he's not sure what he's expecting to find? A wreck and a few bodies, probably? You suppose they deserve a burial, at least.



What will you do?

You drive past the man, and he watches you with passing interest before returning to his thoughts.



Backsmasher tries to explain the path to Vargall, but ends up capitulating and just plugging his commlink into the car's holographic map projector. Thankfully it does not require the windshield to be there to function.




The woman just covers her face with her hands and tugs at her own hair, sobbing uncontrolably.

"I-I thought I was gonna die... E-e-everyone knows I'm a criminal now... I'll get fired and end up living the rest of my life on the street, or maybe get sold to the organleggers for my kidneys..."

*sob*


MEANWHILE


Bright takes a hearty swig of the Aztlan Rum. It's pretty strong stuff, but he manages to down it quite easily. Not even drunk!



What will you do?