Re: What Fate had in Store (Duke, Altamira, Sakume)
Cadenza looked up. The girl with her was crying; full-on, gasping and shaking, rip through a box of Kleenex crying. Some guys in the cell to their left were shouting some things that even she shouldn't be hearing; let alone some innocent girl who probably didn't even know what a prison was. As Zorlo tried to comfort the girl, the gypsy stood, and walked over to the wall that separated them from the catcallers.
The men blinked, and glanced up at her. One made the very astute observation that this woman wasn't crying. Another tried a wolf whistle, but it was to no avail. Cadenza's stare was cold and apathetic. That wasn't fun.
"Eyah?" one called, grinning uncertainly. "Whatcha lookin' at us for like that?"
"It...looks like it's your turn," the woman said.
The men followed her gaze across to a pair of guards brandishing weapons. A sudden, heart-dropping silence fell over them.
Cadenza turned away and headed back for the corner she had nestled herself in as the sounds of boots and screams trailed off down the hall. Zorlo shot the woman a surprised look as she sat back down, but it was soon replaced with a smile. It seemed broader than his usual; the man had a whole wide range of expressions it seemed he could communicate with subtly different grins.
"Ah, hello, Cadenza," he said.
The gypsy met his eyes for a moment, but her gaze drifted away to the endless stars below. She had just realized, in that moment where she had tried to use the shadows on the men in the next cell, that her powers were gone. A little late on the uptake too there, she figured. Zorlo seemed calm. He probably had noticed a while ago.
She absent-mindedly watched as Selene desperately pawed at the wall between the guys and them, tears streaking down her face. Zorlo tried his best to comfort her, but there wasn't much he could do; and some part of her, admittedly, stirred at this. It wasn't the nausea from before. She felt bad for the girl.
Quietly, Cadenza mouthed a tentative, almost nervous, "It'll be okay..." that she wasn't quite sure if the angel heard. She wasn't used to being the comforting one; she couldn't even bring herself to look at the girl and see how her weak first attempt had gone afterward.
The woman had only just noticed that Johnny was sharing the cell with Zorlo when the fencer addressed her again; "Cadenza, Johnny, our only hope of escape to avoid our deaths is to work together. All four of us need to help each other, otherwise we'll all die."
He said this with his characteristic Zorlo conviction; but along with it, he shot a sort of pleading look at Cadenza, as if he wasn't sure what her response to this would be. Then, his eyes falling upon the quivering angel, he added, "What do you say?"
No bloody prison had ever been able to hold her; that was Cadenza's first thought. The first and last time she had ever been in one was when she was sent back in time with a dragoon by that solider's sword, and even then she was released immediately after. She'd be damned if she'd sit around here and wait for execution now, so, inevitably, her answer was: "Yeah, sure. I'll help."