Bail Out

(First Floor)

Sonny-boy comes running up to the car with a bag of donuts under His arm. "Ah heard gun fire, what's goin on?" He asks Bor. After being told He grabs his tommy gun, and with a swear he runs into the hotel.

(Third Floor)

Sky grabs a chair and Travels to the outside corner of the building. Then he Travels again about two feet inward, so that the legs of the chair, but not its back nor his arm, are lodged firmly, indeed fused, with the brick wall!

A dangerous trick indeed, but luckily, Sky pulls it off.

He hangs from the chair back with one hand, leans around the corner to see the alley, where the enemy Traveler and Miss Tane have appeared. The Traveler glances once at the window from which he came, but doesn't look at the corner of the building, so he doesn't dodge.

Sky lines up a one-handed shot at the Traveler. That Traveler tries to shift Miss Tane onto his back, but he stumbles, and sinks to his knees, as though weakened by something. Perhaps Sky’s shot in the hotel room connected after all? In any case, he is unable to lift Christine sufficiently to put her over his back. Which means from above, Christine is not a shield.

Sky’s second shot hits the Traveler high in the chest, and he drops backwards suddenly. Christine hits the alley and rolls to one side, apparently unconscious or stunned. Her hair falls aside to reveal an egg-sized bruise forming on her forehead; that knife handle must have had a heavy metal tip. Blows like that have been known to kill a man, to say nothing of a helpless woman. 

(First Floor)

Sonny-boy enters the lobby just as the other Grimnoir are headed up the stairs. So he sees Kaze and Richter finish the assassin.

Belle would have been ready to shoot the assassin when he turned solid. But when she saw that Kaze had the matter in hand, she turned her eyes to making sure no one else surprised them.

Sonny-boy comes in behind her, and for an instant she lines up her pistol, but then recognizes him.

Janet finds the highest piece of furniture, and jumps up through the ceiling from there, and she has a pocket full of forks.

Janet’s impetus carries her through the second floor, through the second ceiling, and into the third floor at an angle.

(Third Floor)

In the hotel room, small items are scattered along the walls as Shara beats her wings, trying to keep the Fades from solidifying.

But the Fades have noticed that their Traveler is gone. So they both run forward toward Shara and dive through her, passing through the floor.

Janet sees all this happen from behind the Fades. It’s a perfect ambush position, but I don’t know what she can do to them, they being Faded. Although they’re likely to run out soon, unless they have tremendous reserves of magic.

Belle, Kaze, Richter and Sonny-Boy reach the hotel room at about the same time. The door is half-open. Shara is trying to put her wings into Janet’s way, attempting to keep Janet desolid and therefore harmless much as she did the other Fades. Remember, Shara has never seen Janet and doesn’t know which side she is on.

Sky Masterson is gone without a trace. Oh, wait, there’s a dead man on the floor with a hole in his heart. So I guess there is a trace.

The piercing crack of a .45 echoes from the fire escape, outside the open window.

(Alley Behind the Hotel)

The Traveler and Christine are six feet from the door of Michael Bor’s car. I will have to wait for instructions from him, because his response really does matter an awful lot. But while we wait, let’s review:

SKY is hanging from a chair above the alley

MICHAEL is in the car in the alley, near the Traveler and Christine. Both of them appear unconscious, but this may not be the case.

EVERYONE ELSE is upstairs in the third floor. SHANA is buffeting the room with huge wings; they don’t weigh much, but everyone is being, well, fluttered by them. In order to get to the window which leads to Sky, they’d have to go through Shana. There’s no room to go around.

THE TWO FADES are diving toward Michael's car, directly beneath Sky. Janet and Sky are the only ones who know this. 

Oh, and I should mention that a large car without headlights, a ten-year-old Model T, is coming around the corner into the alley. The light is too poor to determine how many people might be in it, but it’s the phaeton model, with three rows of seats.