Pytor glides silently along the front of the service station to where the
sergent keeps watch around the corner. Kat listens the the Ukrainian’s whispered message, then motions to Nedjar and Pamuk to return.
Normand backs away from the garage door and moves into the shadows of the porte-cochere. Unable to locate a key in the locked door, he looks around the room beyond the glass instead.
The old woman glares at Marcel, her brow furrowed.
“You are sorry, you say? What are you doing sneaking about in my garden?” she repeats quietly. Despite her demeanor, Marcel notes that she is keeping her voice down as she studies his uniform, and the carbine slung over his shoulder.
“These two saw a light of some kind inside the garage,” Kat tells Nedjar and Pamuk, jerking a thumb at Pyotr.
“Anything up there?”
Nedjar shakes his head.
“A couple of windows with drawn curtains,” the Algerian replies,
“but no other doors that we could find.”
Still lurking in the shadows, Normand gazes through the glass at the space beyond – he can vaguely make out some furnishings scattered around a long narrow room, but no real detail to speak of.
Her expression a mix of anger and puzzlement, the old woman at last turns toward the door, then hesitates.
“Just a moment,” she says grumpily, holding up her bundle then hobbling off the steps and toward the small trashcan next to the landing. She steps on a pedal and the lid pops up, squeaking loudly in the stillness. She drops the bundle of trash into the can with a clatter, and steps back. The lid falls.
If Marcel wants to catch the lid before it slams down, make a melee touch attack against DC 8. If he wants to prevent her from getting to the trash can in the first place, make an initiative roll and describe what action he takes, and I will edit my post - the initiative roll to beat is 17!
