01-24-2019, 08:43 PM
Time snared its noose around the deal. The seconds, minutes, then hours slipped away quickly, until thirty minutes after Carpenter’s self-imposed deadline came the first demand for answers.
Some time after that followed the admission Natalie was gone.
And then silence.
Alistair did not care where she went; the boy had misunderstood the game they had played, or at least Alistair’s stake in it. Within the Custody or without, what he wanted was his daughter’s capitulation, and had warranted on the sting of betrayal being enough to nudge her in the right direction.
But the silence.
The dull tones of any attempt at connection suggested that the device he had given Natalie was broken. ‘I don’t know where she is’ wouldn’t be the first lie the boy had tried to pass off as truth, but given Alistair’s current … limitations, it would take time to authenticate either way.
A muscle twitched in his jaw. He’d warned Jay. Had offered the chance of a mutually beneficial alliance. Instead the boy chose to become an obstacle.
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Alistair Grey
NPC
Some time after that followed the admission Natalie was gone.
And then silence.
Alistair did not care where she went; the boy had misunderstood the game they had played, or at least Alistair’s stake in it. Within the Custody or without, what he wanted was his daughter’s capitulation, and had warranted on the sting of betrayal being enough to nudge her in the right direction.
But the silence.
The dull tones of any attempt at connection suggested that the device he had given Natalie was broken. ‘I don’t know where she is’ wouldn’t be the first lie the boy had tried to pass off as truth, but given Alistair’s current … limitations, it would take time to authenticate either way.
A muscle twitched in his jaw. He’d warned Jay. Had offered the chance of a mutually beneficial alliance. Instead the boy chose to become an obstacle.
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Alistair Grey
NPC