Meet me in the valley

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:00 pm

"But why?"

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:26 pm

"I'm not sure we want to know."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:17 pm

"I think it's becoming obvious that we don't..."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:44 pm

"That... that is true."

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:57 pm

"I guess... we need to get into the room behind the reception desk."

"...somehow..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:00 pm

"Well didn't we just learn that the staff don't have all the keys?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:17 pm

"I doubt we can just shake the key to the front doors out of a book."

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:20 pm

"If there's one key they have, it's that one."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:25 pm

"But even moving through the hotel more freely might help. As long as it's not through... that."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:29 pm

"Well it's the only one we have. And what if they catch us trying to get another one?"

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:50 pm

"We'll forget we were looking."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:09 pm

"Or worse."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:40 pm

"Yeah I... I don't want to find out."

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:40 pm

"So what then? We just give up?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:44 pm

"We keep our eyes sharp. We look to see if there's other ways to get around the hotel."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:34 pm

"What if something happens again?"

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:42 pm

He picked up the poker again.

"We defend ourselves at all possible."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:56 pm

"Easy for you to say," she muttered with a wince at the poker.

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:17 pm

"Then here," he said, holding it out for, "You take it."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:21 pm

"N-no... no, I don't want it..." She paled.

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:48 pm

He pulled it away quickly and averted his eyes.

"Sorry..."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:56 pm

Ask him for the key.

Nailah shakes her head faintly as if to clear it. "I don't think a fire-poker is going to help much in that place anyway."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:29 pm

"Aye. There's... there's not any benefit in... sinking to that level."

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:38 pm

"Well I for one am done feeling defenseless."

While the words were brave in theory, the fear in them was obvious.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:44 pm

"Wish I could say the same..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:47 pm

"I don't... I don't want to give up any more of myself," she mumbled.

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:57 pm

He cast Sam a concerned look.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:07 pm

"You're not giving yourself up."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:10 pm

"That's... that's not me, Miss Weaver."

by **Steve Jones** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:21 pm

He, for one, wasn't getting what Sam meant. Surely it wasn't that defending oneself was a bad thing.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:24 pm

"You don't even know what really happened and no one is asking you to do... something like that."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:39 pm

"No, I... suppose I don't."

by **Steve Jones** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:52 am

"Something like... what?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:22 pm

"Nothing," she insisted.

by **Steve Jones** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:19 pm

He shrank back at her vehemence.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:35 pm

"Hey now. It's all good."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:52 pm

"All good?" She asked Nailah, her expression livid. "All good?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:56 pm

"W-well right this moment. I just... I mean..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:19 pm

"Nothing's alright, Miss Weaver."

by **Steve Jones** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:23 pm

"Hey," Steve said as sternly as a man at least twice his age, "Let's not start turning on each other."