I asked, as we retreated from our hiding place and moved towards one of the labs Anise and Sallia had scouted out during their material gathering expedition.
said Felix.
I asked again.
said Felix.
I thought about what Felix had said, and then I grinned.
As one, Felix, Sallia and I all looked at Anise.
Anise blinked at us.
asked Sallia.
Anise smiled at us.
asked Felix.
said Anise.
said Sallia.
Anise thought about it for a few seconds, before she nodded.
said Sallia.
I said.
said Sallia
asked Felix.
said Sallia.
I asked.
Sallia nodded.
I blinked in surprise.
Felix said.
I smiled. We had a way forward. After a great deal of thinking, we had finally found a way to potentially win - even against a nurically superior group led by a heroic-grade shooter. Even if our plan still had a lot of holes to fill in, and a lot of potential dangers… it was a real way forward. A hope for the future.
Then, I frowned, as I glanced back towards the ball room. The scavengers weren’t stopping in the ball room, the way I had hoped they would. For several minutes, it had appeared that they were hesitating in the ball room… but as a group, it now appeared that they were moving towards the exit to the ball room.
At first, I thought that they might be looking for us in the entrance hallway to the school - but then, I rembered a conversation we had overheard from the first round of scavengers we had eavesdropped on.
Back then, one of the Scavengers had argued that they had already gotten a pretty good haul from the mark - a splinter of wood from one of the innermost branches of the Universal Tree. Then, the sa Scavenger had argued that they should leave the Market now.
We needed the splinter of wood - it might offer the one and only solution to our predicant of being unable to purchase more lives.
But the Scavengers had no obligation to stick around in the Market.
What if they just ran away?
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