[center][h1][color=ed1c24]SCARLET SHADOW
红色阴影[/color][/h1][/center]

[i]This is probably the stupidest gamble I’ve taken in… some time.[/i]

Scarlet Shadow had no intention of leaving with these tattooed men and their leader. The heart at this point was lost to her and while beyond displeased she knew when it was time to bail. Even as the goons made their way across the rope to her she glanced back to the man holding the device. [i]It’s a bluff. All the big talk is to just try and cement his position.[/i] The rope could be cut easily and the two goons sent hurtling down below, but even then there was the risk that the master thief would just take a bullet or crossbow bolt to the back while scrambling back toward the vent.

[i]Gāisǐ…[/i]

Scarlet Shadow turned, twisting about as if to take the hand of the lead man on the rope. But she did not. The master thief put all her force into a hard vault and instead sailed back over the two men, twisting midair as she came down. There was a glint of metal followed by the snap of the rope. A blade in her left hand Scarlet Shadow gripped onto the tightrope with the other, swinging downward just above the inferno and then arcing up, the two goons meanwhile hurtling down toward their death. After jumping she had swiftly cut the rope between her and the two men while grabbing hold of the end that stretched across the chasm. 

The rope made an upward swing on the opposite side, the hard descent and rise having enough force to give Scarlet Shadow the room to let free and summersault down toward the platform. No sooner had her feet hit the platform floor than the thief “disappeared” in a streak, the detonator yanked free from the hand of it’s owner a second later.