Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 2:13 pm**

Brigid got up with the sunrise the morning after the attack on Big Ben. Without so much as a word to anyone, she headed down to the Thames to wash up.

Presently, her clothes are piled on the shore as she scrubs the soot and blood of the previous day off. However, the machete thrust into the embankment looks like it's within easy reach.

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:36 pm**

"Bathing in the river... not exactly safe," said a hooded female figure leaning against a tree. She hadn't been there a moment before. She wasn't wearing any visible weapons.

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:41 pm**

"Safe as anything in this city," she says, looking over her shoulder at the figure.

"Suppose we're going to fight, now?"

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:43 pm**

"Why would we? I don't have a problem with you. I would hope you don't have a problem with me, Brigid." The voice wasn't familiar.

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:51 pm**

"I don't think I know you, and almost everyone I've encountered roaming in the open has been a looter or working for a warlord."

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:55 pm**

"They call me Wanderer and isn't everyone a looter of one sort or another these days?"

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:59 pm**

"The people at Big Ben weren't, until someone targeted them."

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:01 pm**

"An unfortunate set of events," she said, sounding genuinely upset. "But everyone gets by on what they can scrounge from what's left. Scavenging, looting, 'reappropriating', it's really all the same shite."

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:54 pm**

"And if people feel the need to stage armed raids against refugees, they'll deal with me."

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:02 pm**

"So noted, not that I have anyone to stage raids with. Bit of a loner by temperament."

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:51 pm**

"I've done that dance. Not sure I can afford to, anymore."

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:03 pm**

"Oh? Something change your mind?"

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:12 pm**

"People I should be there for."

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:17 pm**

"Ah, the age old chain around the ankle. Sometimes useful, more often than not a burden."

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:35 pm**

"Only way out is to stop caring."

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:46 pm**

"Hard to keep caring with the way things can be out there. More power to you if you can."

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2015 3:28 pm**

"Nobody wants to lose what they've got left."

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2015 3:40 pm**

Wanderer nodded, "Something I can definitely agree with. So what do you need? I come across a lot of things in my travels and everyone seems to need something."

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:02 pm**

"I'm not sure it's something physical that I need."

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:04 pm**

"I've dealt in intangibles before. What can I do for you there?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:06 pm**

"I have a friend who did... all of this," she says, gesturing around.

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:09 pm**

"She did?" Wanderer definitely didn't sound surprised. "That seems like a huge assumption, and a lot of power."

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:38 pm**

"I'm trying to help her. She's all tangled up in it now, mentally."

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:47 pm**

"Unwind the twine and you might find the end of it or you may just unravel the ball entirely and end up with nothing. Hard choice there. What does your future-seeing friend think of the possibilities? Or is she just too afraid to look hard at them? Or is she just playing her cards close to the vest the way her mothers always used to?"

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2015 11:03 pm**

"She's not the one whose judgment I'm going to trust on this."

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:02 am**

"Trusting your own? I thought you weren't an expert," she said with a smirk. "I do have a tidbit of news. There's a dragon moving in on the western end of the city. I saw it scouting around the other day, probably looking for some place to establish a lair."

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2015 3:18 pm**

"Showing you've been watching me isn't a great way to earn my trust."

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2015 3:24 pm**

Wanderer dismissed the comment with a shrug, "Take the news or not. It's not my problem if you don't. If I went out of my way to earn people's trust, I would have been dead a long time ago."

Posted: **Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:26 pm**

"Forgive me if I'm wary of someone who knows more about me than I do about them."

Posted: **Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:53 pm**

"Forgiveness isn't something I give," she said. "Though I do understand. Take the news as a sign of good faith then. I'll be around again." And with that she was gone, as if she'd never been there in the first place.

Posted: **Tue Mar 10, 2015 1:02 pm**

Brigid shakes her head, finishing rinsing off and going to get dressed again.

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