Log: Falling Towards The Sky

[spectre_de_la_mort]

Who: Agent Louisiana, Sigma Ai, and Oquirrh
What: Ever wonder what the city looks like from above?
Where: Louisiana's safe house, Control vehicle bay/air space over Gulch
When: 6/25 Thursday
Warnings: Mild cursing, shenanigans involving two dorks in an aircraft with no doors, Sigma cooking


Louisiana slips out of the pillow fort and stretches out her arms. She hadn't expected to do that with Sigma so soon and especially because he didn't want to go home. However it beat him sleeping at the hospital. This guaranteed good sleep for him. Her not so much. She had waited for him to pass out in order to call Omega before getting her own rest.

She heads into the kitchen and makes two cups of coffee. Bringing them back to the fort, she gently nudges Sigma awake. They had a pretty exciting plan for the day. So it'd be best to make sure he started off in a good mood.

"Hey rise and shine, Rooks. We got a date with a Falcon today."

Comments

[ambitious_muse]

"Yeah, I suspected as much," he says. "We'll just mutually agree not to say anything and everything will be fine."

[spectre_de_la_mort]

"Well I mean...you could talk about the flight. And probably me and Oquirrh being there. Just not where we got the Falcon from. We could probably say that we were able to rent one. That shouldn't be too hard to cover."

[ambitious_muse]

"That's fair, I guess," he says. "I didn't realize you could rent military-grade vehicles in Gulch. Well, I mean, I didn't realize most people could. You can probably get away with anything." She certainly has enough money for it.

[spectre_de_la_mort]

Louisiana continues to follow the familiar route with little difficulty. "If you've been in the game long enough, you know how to get a hold of vehicles such as this or a Falcon. Mercenaries have been able to do it for a while. I can't get away with everything though. I even have limits."

[ambitious_muse]

Oh. Right. That's what caused the most recent incidents. He looks out at the passing scenery, embarrassed.

[spectre_de_la_mort]

"Are you alright, Sigma," she asks. He usually didn't go quiet without a real reason behind it. Something had him bothered.

[ambitious_muse]

"Just realizing what some of those limits might be," he says. "Considering recent events that neither of us probably want to talk about. We're here to have fun, remember?"

[spectre_de_la_mort]

"Emotional limits varies depending on stressors. Sometimes it's easier to just shutdown that part of myself," Louisiana admits. It was much better than overthinking everything and possibly running. "Physical limits...whole different ballpark."

"But yea. We're here to have fun or some semblance of it at least."

[ambitious_muse]

"I'm still trying to figure out those physical limits," he admits. "I'm pretty sure what we're doing today counts as an emotional limit, though. Unless you've given Oquirrh orders that I don't know about."

[spectre_de_la_mort]

"Mine or yours? Cause if the former, I hope you never do because that means we're in deep trouble," she remarks. "Not really. Oquirrh is a friend. This isn't exactly stressing."

[ambitious_muse]

"Not necessarily. I'm getting there in swimming. And my--Texas pushes my limit at training. That doesn't mean danger for you."

"I'm glad Oquirrh isn't going to try anything crazy. Not that I'm not excited. I just have never flown before."

[spectre_de_la_mort]

"I doubt you could ever be a threat," she teases. "Even if Texas trains you."

"She shouldn't do anything too over the top. I mean Falcons don't exactly have doors. You'll be strapped in though."

[ambitious_muse]

"Excuse me," he says. "I'm trying!"

"Wow, thanks. I'm both reassured and terrified at the same time."

[spectre_de_la_mort]

"I know you are. Still talking about a huge difference in experience though."

Louisiana laughs softly. "You've survived a Warthog. You can manage a Falcon, Rooks."

[ambitious_muse]

"It's true," he says. "And you're the professional. I'm just curious and trying to protect myself."

"There's a slight difference in the altitude of the two. But I'll tough it out."

[spectre_de_la_mort]

"You are definitely curious. That much I'll give you."

"You'll be fine," she says. "It's just a couple hundred feet give or take."

[ambitious_muse]

"Only," he says. "Well, we're about to see just now curious I am. How many hundreds of feet are involved in it, I mean."

[spectre_de_la_mort]

"I think I'm not going to tell you that. It's better for you to see for yourself than for me to tell you and psyche yourself out." Louisiana pulls up to the checkpoint for the depot and gets waved through.

"It wouldn't be good to have that after getting you both here."

[ambitious_muse]

"Trust me, even one hundred is more than enough," he says. "I'm fine not knowing for now."

They make it through the checkpoint easily enough. It looks like Oquirrh isn't in trouble after all.

[spectre_de_la_mort]

At least they made it through without trouble. No one recognizes Oquirrh. Louisiana drives around, bypassing low levels and other employees. They shouldn't pay them any heed so long as their group didn't drag attention to themselves.

[ambitious_muse]

Sigma keeps his head down. No reason to get anybody to look at the rookie, which would of course be the cover story. And an accurate one at that.

[spectre_de_la_mort]

She pulls over into an open hangar bay. Louisiana parks the warthog a couple of feet from an aircraft. An engineer was doing pre-flight check up. The turbines spinning idly as they worked.

"Here we are, guys. That right there is ours for the day."

[oquirrh_at_the_wheel]

If she weren't sitting in the back of the Warthog, Oquirrh would be jumping up and down.

"She's beautiful!" she says. She leaps up and rushes over to get a closer look.

[ambitious_muse]

"Somebody's excited," Sigma says. Not that he isn't. It's just funny seeing her get so worked up about an aircraft.

[spectre_de_la_mort]

"She's been training to fly one for a while," Louisiana admits to him. She watches as the engineer does at double take at the excited Oquirrh. They seemed more taken aback at the sudden enthusiasm breaking their quiet.

"I keep my promises. This was one of the ones for her."