>>22291931Breaking through windows is kind of a guilty pleasure of mine, although here it's limited by how large glass panels could be made given the tech level. Also, unlike movie windows, trying to crash through a real one is a good way to get you covered in cuts by the broken glass, which is why windows used as exit points in the story are all pushed away.
Mel picked up enough clues from the last encounter to deduce who the constable truly is, and there are clues that she did more than just light reading on the ledger. The end result's that she managed to catch the girl off-guard. She controlled enough of the interaction that the girl was unable to double-check the ledger or the environment before she had to make off with the forgery instead. It isn't stated in the story, but you can probably deduce how much of the forgery's content is real based on her attitude.The horned one (technically the gender is never specified... they might even have met before) is there to help her escape with the /meat/ trademark clay pot bomb (although I think /morig/ also has something similar, but not psychotropic) and sling. There are hints that the ones used here are not as deadly or painful as the ones usually used in war, though...Thanks for the compliment! It has been quite a blast writing the story myself, even if I sometimes swing between wanting it to be like film noir, and wanting it to be like the film noir part of Calvin and Hobbes.
Have a cute chuuba as my gift. 