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ThatLostDudeEven as she sped through the sewers, Lucie did her best to avoid splashing. Even if their would-be spy's own splashing footsteps would cover hers, it was good to be careful.
The stench was as thick as she remembered it. Like shit and piss, mixed with the halfrotten remains of the rich folk's food, not to mention the rats. Prague may be a pretty and near majestic city on the outside, but delve just a bit beneath the surface, and it was the same as everywhere else.
Now was not the time to reminisce, however, nor to criticise her home town. If everything went as she expected it to, Aleksandra would currently be chasing their spy, and be approximately halfway towards where she aimed to cut him off. She continued straight ahead, ignoring the grates to the outside, and the other offsprings of the sewer system. Ahead, she knew, the tube she was currently in would open up into a perpendicular sewer tube, exactly the one where Aleksandra and their guest would come running through.
But, as fate would have it, nothing would be easy. It seemed that, in just the last six months, things had changed enough down here to hinder her. Ahead was a cave-in, the roof and walls had caved in, blocking thoroughfare for any ordinary person. Luckily for her, Lucie was far from ordinary. Stopping in front of the cave-in, she put a hand to the cold stone and sent a pulse of psychic energy through it, quietly asking for a "place where it was not". What it revealed was that there was an opening, just large enough for a person of average stature to go through. Lucie may be somewhat taller than the average, but she was still a woman and thus small in ways men were not.
She found the hole in short order and crawled through, then instinctively dove into the shadows, only for the splashing of feet through muck to reach her ears.
Sakra! She cursed. Finding the way into this place, and crawling through it, had taken too much time. She was about to start running out to intercept their 'target', when the sound of splashing reached its apex, and a shape entered her field of vision. Lucie, still hidden in the shadows, saw him approach at a rapid pace. He couldn't have avoided noticing the barricade that was the cave-in, so the fact that he didn't slow down to a stop as most would, spoke volumes. He knew of the small way through, and planned to use it to escape Aleksandra.
We can't have that, can we? Lucie thought with almost sinister glee. She made certain to make as little sound as physically possible, as she stepped out of her patch of shadows. To Filip, it would look like she just materialised, or stepped out of the solid rock surrounding them. There was just enough light to see the white of her teeth as she smiled, now standing directly in his way. "Good evening, I believe you have a few questions to answer."
The stench was as thick as she remembered it. Like shit and piss, mixed with the halfrotten remains of the rich folk's food, not to mention the rats. Prague may be a pretty and near majestic city on the outside, but delve just a bit beneath the surface, and it was the same as everywhere else.
Now was not the time to reminisce, however, nor to criticise her home town. If everything went as she expected it to, Aleksandra would currently be chasing their spy, and be approximately halfway towards where she aimed to cut him off. She continued straight ahead, ignoring the grates to the outside, and the other offsprings of the sewer system. Ahead, she knew, the tube she was currently in would open up into a perpendicular sewer tube, exactly the one where Aleksandra and their guest would come running through.
But, as fate would have it, nothing would be easy. It seemed that, in just the last six months, things had changed enough down here to hinder her. Ahead was a cave-in, the roof and walls had caved in, blocking thoroughfare for any ordinary person. Luckily for her, Lucie was far from ordinary. Stopping in front of the cave-in, she put a hand to the cold stone and sent a pulse of psychic energy through it, quietly asking for a "place where it was not". What it revealed was that there was an opening, just large enough for a person of average stature to go through. Lucie may be somewhat taller than the average, but she was still a woman and thus small in ways men were not.
She found the hole in short order and crawled through, then instinctively dove into the shadows, only for the splashing of feet through muck to reach her ears.
Sakra! She cursed. Finding the way into this place, and crawling through it, had taken too much time. She was about to start running out to intercept their 'target', when the sound of splashing reached its apex, and a shape entered her field of vision. Lucie, still hidden in the shadows, saw him approach at a rapid pace. He couldn't have avoided noticing the barricade that was the cave-in, so the fact that he didn't slow down to a stop as most would, spoke volumes. He knew of the small way through, and planned to use it to escape Aleksandra.
We can't have that, can we? Lucie thought with almost sinister glee. She made certain to make as little sound as physically possible, as she stepped out of her patch of shadows. To Filip, it would look like she just materialised, or stepped out of the solid rock surrounding them. There was just enough light to see the white of her teeth as she smiled, now standing directly in his way. "Good evening, I believe you have a few questions to answer."