Phillis Circus
They built the suits themselves? Syed's grin only spread wider, his eyes widening in awe, every inch of his mind focusing on their words intently. "Oh my word you guys are amazing..." he breathed. He couldn't help it. He really just couldn't. It was fascinating, just as they said. And it was good, just for once, to meet someone who shared his love for technology... let alone two people. If it were any other situation, he'd give pretty much anything to just be able to sit down with them both and discuss their inventions. Sure, he was no inventor himself. But he'd love to learn about it all the same.
Unfortunately work was work, and it wasn't just the stiltmen who had to go back to it. The heavy weight of their own job returned to his conciousness - the missing people, Eric, that room. Such a shame they both occupied opposite sides. And these people seemed so decent. Other than the shrine, which made him angry just thinking about... was this place really the source of the dissapearances?
His smile did falter slightly at the mention of a restricted area though. And vanished completely when Aria and Lucien strode right out of it and started talking to him. Cue instant suspicion. And Syed, being the honest person he was, just locked up completely like a rabbit in headlights. He fixed his gaze on the other two, looking borderline betrayed. He did spot Estelle and Trixie run off a small distance away, although he did his best to not make it too obvious. Well at least they took the more subtle approach.
"Hey, I like the hat!" Lucien grinned, giving him a thumb up as oblivious as ever, panda shirt and all. Gods damnit. This was not the time.
"What the fuck were you doing?!" Moira suddenly bellowed. She threw her hands into the air, before striding over to both Aria and Lucien and literally knocking their heads together. The pair recoiled and gave her a fleetingly confused look, rubbing gingerly at their heads, before Moira suddenly wrenched them both by the collar and pushed them both to their knees. And with her strength? They were helpless to her steely grip. Syed gave out an exclamation of alarm, although Moira simply bent over and hissed at the pair. "Apologise. Now."
She got looks of confusion all round, although she ignored them entirely. Instead she flicked her hair back as she gazed back up to the stiltman. Bloody hell that hurt her neck.
"We'll get goin' then," she promised, hauling the pair back up. "We were just lookin' for our friend, before this dork started fangirling all over you. Dark hair, kinda gormless lookin'," she explained loudly and without the slightest trace of nerves. "Not all there in the head. Trenchcoat. Think he might have the shits, judgin' by the sounds he was makin' in the loo earlier. Last thing we want is for him to have an accident. You seen him?"
Syed gaped. She was lying. She was actually lying to the stiltman. Lying with a half-truth - abeit a harshly worded and not entirely factual one - but lying all the same. Still, he spotted Xan and Lute leave the fortune tent as the stiltman's attention was fixed on Moira. He tried as subtly as he could to tilt his head in the direction Estelle and Trixie had dissapeared off in - the last thing they needed for them to get involved too.
