- Janet:
- Janet leans back in her seat, smoothing her skirt and wrinkling her nose at the garbage cans they were hiding behind. "Can you hear anything? How's Sky doing?" She asks Mr. Bor, watching him fiddle with his strange contraption.
- Michael: Michael remembers that in Russian, "Voinovich" means "son of war."
- Sky:"Miss Tane! I is enchanterated to meetcha, and enthralled as well," Sky Masterson says in his most debonair fashion, taking her hand and kissing it.
He gives Muldoon a firm handshake. "Mr. Muldoon. Glad to be woiking with youse. Something about being around other Actives makes a man relaxified, ya know? Like being amongst his very own kind."
"Miss Lemon," he doffs his hat. His hair has been slicked down with Vitalis and Barbasol, partly nicely down the middle, Clarke Gable style.
"Mr. Voinovich," says Sky, "I is also needing to make sure we is clarified on one thing. Like I'z just intimidated, I got a friend on the force, who can get the coppers looking one direction whilest we'z lam it outta there the other direction. But you gotta tell me the direction and gimme a chance to talk my patter to him, see? Also, any killing, and he is going to be a lot harder to make look around the other way. Now you can play your cards any way you want, all I am saying is, if you want me to play this police ace I gots up my sleeve, I can. If you just want to bust the joint and takes our chances, that dandy with me too. It's your deck. You cut the cards as you like." - Muldoon exits in search of O.K. Hennesey. Shara sits down on the bed.
- Voinovich says, "Hm. Well, we didn't want to kill anybody ... never have yet. And now that Scorchy's on the team, we hardly have to. His Power may not be aimed very well, but by God it's dramatic! Nobody wants to make a move on us once he lights up the ceiling."
- "Let's see, who's got a map around here? We passed the train tracks coming into town, but I don't know if they're west or east of the bank."
- The phone rings. Everyone glances at it. Voinovich picks up.
- "Yeah?" he says. He listens.
- "All right," he says. He hangs up and hooks his jacket from the coatrack, slipping a .45 into his shoulder holster at the same time.
- "Scorchy wants me downstairs. Stay up here," he says to the girls, and heads out, after a suspicious glance at Sky.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Reeling Them In
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Miss Weather listens to this, her eyes growing slightly bigger. "I hate to intrude...but this file I've been given is rather thick, and I only managed to get part way through it on the way here.
ReplyDelete"Could anyone be so kind as to sum up for me what we are doing...in a few short simple sentences?"
Belle Weather...except, of course, she's wearing a skirt, too: http://img01.taobaocdn.com/bao/uploaded/i1/282487591/T204CHXjFbXXXXXXXX_!!282487591.jpg
And if this is not the right scene...she asks in the scene she's in. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI believe you are with myself (Kaze) and Mr. Richter. I'm sure Steve would be happy to sum up, but this is what Kaze would tell you:
ReplyDelete"Mr. Masterson is attempting to infiltrate a criminal gang which intends to rob a nearby bank. I believe he is... " and here she hesitates "...'winging it.'"
"We are nearby so that in the event he requires assistance, we shall be ready to give it."
"If he is accepted, then we will have an 'inside man' when they attempt the robbery." She says those phrases in quotes quite delicately, her manner as if she were politely trying an unusual cuisine.
Michael says: "I'm hearing everything, and judging by how long Sky was climbing, they are on the second or third floor.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like Sky has been accepted, or nearly so. Muldoon was sent to get O.K. so they can take a vote.
"There was something odd said about "activating" Sky...I assume it's something about powers. It may be connected with the wings. I am very interested in learning just what she meant.
"Wait, the phone just rang...Voinovich was called by Muldoon, and is heading downstairs.
Janet, be ready for action. I don't know what this call means."
Sky finds a chair where he can glance out the window in case he has to go somewhere in a hurry, leans back on the two rear legs just like your mother told you never to do, puts his feet up in a relaxed posture, lights a cigarette, and smiles at the nearest female.
ReplyDelete"So whatchya planning to do with your cut of the money?"