Donuts Are Worth A Couple of Lives

Richter turns around. Belle looks up. 

Sonny-boy goes get the box of donuts from where he left them by the firing holes, and is ready to defend them with His life. Viva la donuts!

Kaze secures and drops sufficient rope on her way through the window that others may follow. She moves swiftly (faded) to the room down the hall where she left the girl.

The Tattooed Man appears directly behind and slightly above Sonny-Boy. He does not see the Tattooed Man appear, but Kaze does. As the Tattooed Man drops to clamp his hands over Sonny-Boy’s face from behind, strange markings glow on his head and arms … and Sonny-boy feels his Power kindle inside him, exploding his hands, chest and face. But it's not the quick snap of a Boomer, over and done with before you can notice. It's slow. Like jelly.

Kaze has a split-second to act. Her habitual emotional reserve means that Sonny-boy cannot read any hint of his impending doom on her face.

Richter swings his gun barrel onto the Tattooed Man, but doesn't fire, because Sonny is right behind him.

(Meanwhile, below)

Sky, foolishly convinced that Belle has killed the unconscious Fade, turns back to Christine Tane. Not knowing any first aid, he will pat her wrist, and say, "There, there," or try to pour a little illegal whiskey from his hip flask into her motionless lips.

Michael applies somewhat more helpful attention to Christine, whose blue eyes flutter open. She focuses on Michael, looking disturbed.

"You're not Sky," she complains.