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Inks nods, frazzled from lack of caffiene and beset by the buffeting winds of an impending crash. But then, she's always peetering on the erratic edge. Drinks coffee like people breathe. Holiday puffs his cigarette. Grunts. Yeah, he lost the cars. So what? They were in his hands, he locked the car, and then they weren't. No big deal. Walking is good for your health. Work on your attitude, friend. Bracing mountain air? Who even needs a car.
Other than that the scene is simple because the primary missing component is 33% of the Agents meant to be here. By all rights, Fiasco and Vertex should already have swept the perimeter. Wonder what the hold up is.
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Inks gives a slight hummingbird nudge of the head. Impressed. The rookies know their stuff.
Yes, exactly, Agent Holiday rammed a few bushes on the way in due to skidding in the mud and rain, and he almost clipped a deer on the forest path over.
Yes, they're out in the rain because he then conspired to lock the car keys inside the rental vehicle which - see prior state of vehicle, re, being a rental - has some pretty sensitive anti-theft mechanisms and so slammed the doors shut almost the moment they left it.
Yes, the shadows in this place are almost too deep. The old cottage wood must have shaded them from direct sunlight for years. Thats what being in a valley in the mountaineous foothills will do for you. Bet some parts of this place never see the sun, if the sun ever shone in this rain-soaked country.
And yes, Agent Sunday, that is indeed probably more important than all the other stuff - because why exactly are we standing around in a parking lot where someone's left casings on the ground from some kind of gun?
They didn't hear anything earlier, and they're cold. Pushed about by the weight of rain. Maybe some intrepid hunter wanted to scare off a deer before it molested his vehicle. Holiday scoffs, finds that unlikely.
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Missing teammates, mysterious bullet casings, rain that never ends and a deposit Holiday won't get back. This night is off to a good start.
