[It hurts in so many small ways: that unhappy ache that comes from muscles left to atrophy, not tended to or exercised in any significant way. But once it passes, once the memory kicks in that oh yes, this is a way to move, to stand, to smile, it all feels rather right.
So it goes, for so much of this evening.
He doesn't fight when she pulls off; even if he weren't feeling so cooperative in spirit, curiosity would overbear his resistance. And, it seems, be paid off in turn: she pulls from her bag a compact he does indeed remember quite well, one he'd managed to steal away for a time, and barter back in exchange for a rather tidy sum.
He'd been quite pleased over that deal--right up to the point that the event ended, and Rip became all too aware of why he shouldn't be.
Now that unanswered question finds its end, as Peggy opens the compact to reveal a rather clever device within. Drunk or not, the puzzle snaps together nicely: he's seen the partner to this device as well, a sliver of a thing tucked away in a watch, just in case it turned out that Rip returned more monster than man.
The same sliver, he suspects, which now lies embedded in whatever she's got planned for him.]
Seems a rather easy scavenger hunt thus far. [Even if it's only the first branch, as she implies. It's an impressive little bit of tech all the same, and Rip takes stock of the mansion laid out before them, where the marker summons them to go.]
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So it goes, for so much of this evening.
He doesn't fight when she pulls off; even if he weren't feeling so cooperative in spirit, curiosity would overbear his resistance. And, it seems, be paid off in turn: she pulls from her bag a compact he does indeed remember quite well, one he'd managed to steal away for a time, and barter back in exchange for a rather tidy sum.
He'd been quite pleased over that deal--right up to the point that the event ended, and Rip became all too aware of why he shouldn't be.
Now that unanswered question finds its end, as Peggy opens the compact to reveal a rather clever device within. Drunk or not, the puzzle snaps together nicely: he's seen the partner to this device as well, a sliver of a thing tucked away in a watch, just in case it turned out that Rip returned more monster than man.
The same sliver, he suspects, which now lies embedded in whatever she's got planned for him.]
Seems a rather easy scavenger hunt thus far. [Even if it's only the first branch, as she implies. It's an impressive little bit of tech all the same, and Rip takes stock of the mansion laid out before them, where the marker summons them to go.]
Shall we be off, then?