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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InVinoVeritas" data-source="post: 3631631" data-attributes="member: 41485">Marionette, exhausted, rights herself and sprints for the coach. Calahan runs past her, trying to find something to salvage, some clue to the gnome's identity. He stops at a lump in the corner, a pile of petticoats.Darian meets Marionette--no, Suki, she will always be Suki--at the coach door and catches her as she leaps into the carriage. Her hand flails inattentively against his side, and he winces. She gasps slightly, and the two lock eyes. She is still there, Darian realizes.Calahan instinctively grabs at a petticoat and tears off a strip, before thinking about it. He stuffs it in the flask, lights it and tosses it. It lands at the feet of the gnome, who stopped at the wall at the end of the alley. It explodes. The gnome turns around, merely nonplussed.Fr. Berman sets to work at healing the other police. As Darian carefully sets Suki down, Alek stares at Ru. After a pause, he replies, "No thanks necessary. We all need someone we can trust."The gnome glares at Calahan. A throaty, hollow cackle or clacking emerges from his throat. His head twists back, forth, back--then he reaches back, and crabwalks up the wall.A hand grabs Calahan's ankle.The pile of petticoats move slightly, revealing an older female gnome. Her mask is round and pudgy, like a matronly baby. As she grips Calahan, she responds weakly, "Officer! Everything's okay now. I found my son. I found my..." She is lost. Calahan looks at Fr. Berman, busy with healing. He looks at Tavish, who shakes his head. He cannot stay. Quickly, Calahan scoops up the woman's corpse and hops onto the back of the coach as it heads off, toward the police station. (+2 hp to Ru, +2 hp to Torhan, +8 hp to Darian. Fate's a fickle thing. Calahan will be targeted at first opportunity.)</blockquote>

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