>>5384028With more guards right on your tails, the sound of their boots audible from where you stand, you have only mere moments to recollect yourselves and make a mad dash for wherever Conduit may be, but a couple of moments is all you need to come up with your next game plan.
“You… you bitch…” Harpy-woman gasps from your grasp, her well-coiffed, blonde curls now an unkempt mess. “Do you realize I almost died playing your human shield?”
“That’s rich coming from the woman who tried to shoot Blink point-blank while his back was facing away from you.” You return, not feeling the least bit guilty.
“Ahaha… and it would’ve gone through without a hitch if not for you playing martyr for your boytoy.” She laughs, her expression doing a complete one-eighty. “So you’re going to let me go now, right? Can’t fight you in this heap of scrap-metal anyhow.”
“Nope.” You tell her, feeling a surge of vindictive glee at the way her face falls– especially after that ‘boytoy’ comment. “We need to make sure you weren’t feeding us bullshit back there, so you’re going to be our hostage until we have Conduit.”
“What?” Harpy-woman cries. If the gunmen didn’t know your position before, then they do now, no thanks to this woman’s screeching. “I never agreed to that!”
“You will now.” Julia chimes in, face as unforgiving and stony as the crystal she’s made of. “Because, if Kelpie doesn’t break your bones, I will be more than happy to break your entire body.” For emphasis, she gives one of her knuckles a crack.
At Julia’s threat, for a split-second, harpy-woman almost looks as if she’d been struck, but she recovers from her shock quickly enough, only for that shock to be replaced with bemusement.
“You~ You really are a special one, aren’t you?” Harpy-woman purrs. “Positive you don’t remember me at all? Does the name ‘Ursula’ remotely ring a bell for you there, sweetheart?”
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