HAWKS PALACE

[doublefried]

The process of entering the palace is... smooth. Painless.


You are falling, but it's not scary at the speed you're going. You drop through the pre-dawn sky like a feather, light and easy on a breeze, descending towards a bright and multicolored island in a sea of dark trees.

When you land, you are somewhere new.

Comments

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"Oh, it would be. I'm very much out of favor these days."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

Why is that?

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"I killed someone."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

To protect others? For fun? A moment of insanity?

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"Officially? Lost my temper during an argument."

She stretches her arms out above her head.

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

And not officially?

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"It was the only way to quit my job. Unfortunately for me, but more unfortunately for my boss."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

Was it your boss that you killed then?

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"It was the Chairman of the Heroic Public Safety Commission. So yeah, my boss."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

Well, that is certainly one way to go out with a bang.

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"Hah. You could put it like that for sure."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

Has Hawks been through here? The non-plush version, that is.

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"Well, he hasn't been in this cell, but if he's flown the coop he'll probably be further along down here."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

Aa...I'll keep looking then.

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Is the new boss as bad as I'm assuming yours was?

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"He's got the same job as me and then some. Dunno if the best boss in the world would make a difference."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

Mmm....about what I thought then.

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"But so far he hasn't snapped and killed any of the wrong people, so his performance is overall way better than mine."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

I'm not sure a "good performance" is a good thing. If you'll excuse me, I need to find him now.

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"Go for it. Good luck, bud."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

[Mumbles but walking faster now]

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

The EXIT signs both point to a wall of bars. They're not thick like the bars in human jails; they're the thin, delicate, golden bars of a birdcage.

And then another birdcage beyond that. And then another, and then another, and then another until it forms a solid wall.

Your companion, through a mouthful of cotton candy, points and says, "It's on the other side of that."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

Your place is through there? How do you usually get through?

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

"Well... normally I'm on that side and he's on this side. We don't go back and forth a lot."

Re: BACKSTAGE

[tothosewhobait]

[Going to check out the bars]

Re: BACKSTAGE

[doublefried]

They seem like normal birdcage bars! They'd be tough but not impossible for a human of average strength to bend or snap. There's just so many layers of cage bar that it looks like a solid wall, so it might take a while.