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[UPDATE] The Path of Least Time - 19 Jan 07 - Taken

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[UPDATE] The Path of Least Time - 19 Jan 07 - Taken

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Kurt wrote:

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Friday, January 19 2007, 04:04 PM

I was picking at some leftover pizza and attempting to beat some upstart in a game of Speed Counterpoint on the PCAG servers when the call came through. I ignored it for a couple of minutes while I surreptitiously opened up a chasm beneath all of her strongholds.

eat it punk, I typed into the chat box.
you suck :p, announced 'serenad', signing off.

I stood up and yawned. Then I inspected a plant pot lying on the floor. Was this from Miranda? It looked like it might be. Hmm. This would require further investigation, but I decided Violet had waited long enough, and answered the call.

"I thought you weren't going to bother me again," I said. It sounded a little more resentful than I'd planned, but it'd do.

"Scarlett's gone," said Violet.

"What do you mean, gone?" I asked, starting to pay attention.

"She went to meet someone at the Sentinel this morning, to talk about Sente. I haven't heard from her since, and she was supposed to check in two hours ago. Can't reach her on her key, either."

I tapped a few commands into my key. "Huh. I can't locate her key at all. Either she's turned it off, which would be really odd, or..." I trailed off.

"We have to find her," she said quietly.

"Maybe she went undercover, or her key's malfunctioning. She might have gone down into the tunnels - key signal won't penetrate that far."

"That's what Caine reckons. But she would've told me, I'm sure."

"Are you?"

She paused. "Yes. Maybe not in the past, but today, yes."

"Okay. Let me have a think. Maybe I can do a wider scan for her key, check if she's just gone to another town." I glanced at the plant pot, then checked my email to see if Scarlett had sent anything. Nothing from her, but I saw a few from other names I recognised: Marc, Isabella, Cassandra.

"I've just found some emails from our guys on Earth. They intercepted two messages from the Third Power, sent from Perplex City. First one is from early yesterday, says they 'gained access'," I read.

"The break-in at my dad's house?" suggested Violet.

"Looks like it. The message also says they found a 'genuine, non-repro Earth artefact dating from the time of the original theft'. Yeah, I don't know how that's possible either. Then there's the second message from just a few hours ago." I didn't bother to add that this was around the same time as Scarlett's disappearance. "That one simply says 'Package onboard, in transit to secure facility. Not long now'."

"They got Scarlett. They think she knows where the Cube is," said Violet flatly.

"We have to tell someone. The police, they might be able to-"

"Wait, I've got another call coming through. From Scarlett." The line clicked, and went silent.

Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:24 pm

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