High Law and Low Justice, Part 5

[Wilphe]

Ms Carnot, "please call me Eleanor", listens interestedly and laughs at all the appropriate places. She is either very into you, or also keen to appear part of a couple. The trip back takes only a few hours, and passes pleasently enough as Gwydion spins his outrageous anecdoates. When you arrive back at the star port perimeter however, there are a couple of lcoal police waiting at the stop to check passengers as they disembark.

 

[DrZombie]

Gwydion is happy to wait patiently untill it is his turn to get checked.

OOC : any possibility of making a dash for the spaceport into Imperial territory?

 

[Wilphe]

There is an orderly queue to get off the airbus, you are near the end, directly behind three teenage girls who seem to think they're 21 but act they are probably 15, a nondescript man of early middle age in a brown leather coat, and two old ladies, one of whom walks with a stick. Behind you is a couple with six young children whose harassed father occassionally and unitentionally jabs you in the back of the legs with the folded up (anti-grav) pushchair he is carrying.

It is a couple hundred metres to the XT line, but the line itself is rather secure - at something between an International Airport and the Berlin Wall and because of that it is rather congested so there would be a fair crowd to run through. That's not to say you couldn't do it, but it would be dicey.

 

[DrZombie]

Gwydion patiently waites in line, happy that he was smart enough not to suggle in any weapons.

He pats his pockets, looking for his ID (and to see if 'someone' might have slipped something in his pockets that would be rather difficult to explain at the guards. Paranoia isn't a disease, it's a way of life.)

 

[Wilphe]

It isn't paranoia if they really are out to get you, but there isn't anything extra in your pockets that you can find.

The group disembarks without hassle, the guards checking IDs and looking people over as they do so. No one seems especially suprised by the checks as Shirgegge is a very tightly controlled planet at the best of times - and if the K'kree are chosing to raise a fuss and a hue and cry they are certain to get 100% cooperation. The two old ladies are given cursory examinations and then let past, then the guards take an inordinalty long time checking the man in the brown leather (amid some fairly testing questioning about how he got that, even if it is imitation, within two hundred miles of the K'kree). The three teenage girls directly in front of you are giggling and discussing in 100 decibal whisphers which of the guards they think is cutest. Behind you one of the kids wants the toilet.

The guards have had enough and one of them makes to call for back up whilst the other begins the arrest process and the very short reading of the suspects rights. It is at that point that the man sends one tumbling to the floor with a push to the chest and then slams the other hard against the side of the airbus before taking off towards the XT line.

 

[DrZombie]

Gwydion just takes one step backwards and keeps his hands away from his sides, not making any move to indicate he's helping the man in any way whatsoever.

 

[Wilphe]

As Gwydion steps back Eleanor lurches foward and grasps at your arm to steady herself. Gwydion is just about strong enough to stop her falling, but her other hand flails into the back of the teenage girl in front of her, causing all three to cascade down the steps and onto one of the prone officers.
The other is off chasing the fugitive, but he has a good head start and is running hard.

 

[DrZombie]

"Hey, stop shoving." Gwydion yells at the people behind Eleanor, indignation filling his voice.
"Are you allright my dear?" He asks, concern in his voice.

Hmm, the plot thickens.

 

[Wilphe]

There is a fair amount of jostling and confusion, behind you the father drops the pushchair and one of the children starts crying. In front of you the officer is cursing as he extricates himself from several kilos of acne and puppyfat. At least on of the girls mutters under her breath, "clumsy cow", presumably aimed at Eleanor. She herself is now steady, "Yes I'm fine, that was just a bit unexpected when I've been on my feet all day."

Exactly what has happened to the fugitive is a little unclear, as you have lost sight of him in the confusion around the XT line gate. However, you haven't seen dragged away in custody.

 

[DrZombie]

Gwydion, unconcernedly, waits patiently in line to get the hell back to spaceport.