A wrench in the gears.

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<((This RP is open to anyone, just Pm me first fi you wish to join in, that way we cans see where to fit you in))>

"This is sooo embarasing why did I have to wear this....thing!" A tall woman dressed in an light blue and elegant looking dress stomped through the lower halls of terra Glockenchime. Following closely behind her with a frustrated look on his face was a much shorter man in the uniform of a Glockechime engineer. "Chuzi vould hyu pleaze shtop vith hyour vyning. Hyour vearing it because hyu hav too. Hyu vouldn't paz az an engineer zo hyu have to paz az a noble voman, yah? Now schtop zlouching like zat and stand straight, hyu neet to look likez a real noblevoman."
"Oh shut it Jerry, who asked you?" Chusi grumbled and straightend herself up as she continued walking, it wasnt so much the dress that irked her so much, as irritating as it was what had really gotten her angry had beent he 'preperation' back on the Whiptail.

(dear god its a flahsback)
"Hold her don or sshell esscape!" A large raptor struggled over what seemed to be a mess of long black hair, the raptor was none other than Dak as he struggled to keep the mess of hair from gouging out Seeks eyes as the other raptor held it down.
"Gah, dman it you she devil, ssstay sstill and it will be over ssoon."
The mess of hair retaliated with a donkey kick to his chin which sent him realling. "Get off of me you damn geckos!"
"Geet her now vhile she ees distracted."
Seeks sprang fromt eh ground he had been lying on and wrestled the irrate mess of hair to the ground and was soon reinforced byu Dak and a newly arrived Grik.
"Hokay, keep her still and I vill get zees hair sorted vith."

(end flash back - hooray)
Chusi touched her hair, which was no longer a dirty mess but rather shiningly clean and pulled back into a neat bun, and wondered how she was going to repay the geckos for messing with her hair.

Dr. Jeremiah Helbing, was not enjoying this mission. The plan was for the two sole humans of the Monitors to sneak in and find the cyclonian agents and escort them to one of the rear landing pads where the Whiptail could speed in and whisk them away safely. He ofcourse had pointed out the flaws of the plan to their employer only to be ignored. First off he was a doctor and not a spy so he shouldnt be out here int he first place, second he didnt even know how many agents actually needed evac and which ines would be able to stay hidden, but what especially bugged him was that he had to put up with the amazon for the duration of the mission. "Chuzil, I think eet vill be best if vee head for ze main foyer for now, vee kaan start our search from vere. Hokay?"

"Yeah what ever you say Doc, im just here to look all pretty and important, aren't I?"

Hoh cholera, zees ees going to be hell.

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Danna had done it again, he had opened his big mouth and now he and his teammates where in big trouble. Rain was mopping the floor to the main foyer; she was disguised as a maid with the help of a Chroma Crystal that changed her hair from blue to black. The mission was easy, but nothing went as first laied out. Borkah, Danna and herself where gathering information on the Timepulse Tower, but Danna got drunk and said something he was not sopoest to say. To make matters worst Terra Glockenchime had just hired new sentries, Wallops in fact. Just then two people entered the foyer so she stopped what she was doing and greeted them,

"Hello can I help you with any thing," she asked the 'noblewoman' and her escort.

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Seeing her opurtunity for a little fun and payback Chusi quickly slipped into her role of the frivolous heiress who she was suppsoed to be.
"Hmm? Oh why thaaaank you, weve been wandering around for like foreeever. If you don't mind could you point us in the right direction. Its my first time on terra Glockenchime and Spuutnik is useless with directions, isn't that right Spuutnik?"
The doctors left eye twitched in annoyance. Spuutnik?
"Vh..Vhy yees madam, eet haz alvayz been vone ov my beeggest failingz. I humbly apologize for eet, I beg hyu forgive me."Hyu thrice infected vitch.
"Yeah, well whatever." Chusi waved 'Spuutnik' off and turned back to Rain. "Hes one of my daddies friends and he offered to show me around while daddy was in a meeting with all the old guys whor un this place. I would of stayed but they are all so boooring, I mean really. So i decided why not have Spuutnik show me around and see if some of those rumors floating are true."
Chusi pretended as if she had suddenly been struck by an idea.
"Hey you! Yo hear thins right, I mean while you...clean...things? You hear people speaking and stuff right, so do you know if the rumors are ture? Huh? Hm? Come one, tell me? At this point her face was mere centimeters from Rains own and had a look of feigned excitement.
She ees crazy, compleetely crazy. Maybee I kan geet Doctor Vokler to examine her behaviour vhen ve visit terra Greemus again. Nah bad idea she vould probably break something....or somevone.
"Mees Heevilton(Hewilton) I do nat theenk eet ees a good idea to be disturbing the staff here, ve should keep moving."
He motioned to leave one hand but palmed hi hidden shock baton as one of the new wallop sentries entered the room, stopped for whatseemed ages and then proceeded to move on through another exit.

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" Milady," said Rain, " I am sorry I can not help you find your way I am very new here, but what rumors do you speak of as there are many floating around." Felling uncomfortable as Chusi was right up in her face, but as the Wallop passed by she held her breath. Once he left she let go of it, she was thankful that the timekeepers did not yet find her out, but was only a matter of time.

Looking over at 'sputnik' rain could help but see the man looked if he was troubled by the Wallop as it passed by. “Is there something wrong sir?” she inquired.

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Quickly covering up his slipup with the wallop the Doctor quickly fabricated an excuse.
"Hmm, vhy yes actually, it is these vallops vey have hired reecently, eet is most distressing to see these things walking around so close to our delicate gears and mechanics. All eet vould take ees a slight meeshap und boom, eet ees gone, no more timepulse. Witht hese brutes valkingaround I vorry that vone of them vill sneeze and deestroy ze whole tower. Zhey could bring theese whole plaze to ruin all beacuz they fail to be carefull. All that vork gone becauz a stupid vone of bruteesh idiotz could nat be carefull!"
Although no one noticed it, he wasnt even really talking about Wallops and Glockenchime anymore.
With his back turned towards the foyer and his attention elsewhere Chusi grinned and grabbed Rains wrist nbefore hauling her away and around a corner.
This is going to be fun, I never got a chance to act like this before, time to milk it for all its worth.
Noticing that the girl she was holding probably wasnt at all pleased with being haled away like that she went about placating the girl.
"Oh do calm down, I just figured you would rather have some fun rather than hang around cleaning all day and dont worry about any trouble Ill just have to talk to daddy well be fine, kay, good to here it. Now I dont really need to see any place special I just want to see the places, you know, where all the working people go, you undertand? You know like the clubs or bars that sort of thing." Continuing to walk Chusi didnt let go of Rains wrist. "Theres a rumor you see, of cyclonians actually being on terra Glockenchime. Not just any cyclonians but supposedly their spies or something. Just think of it, one of those a spy risking his life as a spy behind enemy lines. The dark him self might even be here hiding from the guards, ooh Wouldnt it be romantic if they were to get involved with a giirl and fall in love with her even, it would be so romantic...and hot, hehehe. So I this him or them doesnt matter. So what do you say?" She knew she was overplaying her role a little, but that was the point. She needed to seem as outrageous and assertive as possible, it was simply what people expected from the wealthy and the upper class. Not to mention it was fun.

Back in the main foyer-
"Um...mees Heevilton?"
Chuzi? Hoh no, thees ess bad.

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'Sputnik' was ranting away about how the Wallop were so very negligent, and she had to agree. As his back was turned to the two the girls, Chusi grinned and grabbed Rains wrist before hauling her away and around a corner. The whole time Rain has fighting the urge to twist the others arm, She might have been a low ranking talon but she still demanded respect. But right now she was not a Talon, she was playing the role of the maid (who had just been swept away by a wealthy noble.)

"But Miss Hewilton I don't think that the bars will let us in as we are to young," said Rain falling back into her role. Normally she would have been wrong as Danna who was younger then her whet to bars and clubs all the time, but on terras controlled by Sky Knights they put out age restrictions on drinking.

"Yes the rumor is true, but sadly they have already captured him, and now they are after his two comrades," she said trying to not laugh as best she could about the 'romantic' part. She could not see what was so romantic about her and her squadron, and she could never see the Dark Ace or the other two commanders lowering themselves to 'grunt' work, but ofcores if the noble only knew who she was, then that might change her whole view.

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"Oh, no they captured one already...hmm but you said there were two more right, that means theirs one for each of us. Hehe."
But how did she know there was more than one? Maybe the agent already spilled the beans....that didnt bode well for the agents OR the Monitors.
"But dont worry about the bars or anything I should be able to get us in, you just need to know what sort of person to show up with. Not that it matter, the other two are probably hiding somewhere. Dont you guys have a lounge or something? They might be there, how do you think well recognize them though? I bet there both really handsome, ooh I think im getting faint."
I cant believe im actually doing this, im being rediculous, but its hilarious. I swear this girl doesnt know wether to bow and nod or to run and hide.

Having given up on chasing Chusi for the moment Jeremiah had moved onto collecting as much information as he could. Currently he was standing only a short distance from the entrance to the holding cells where they were supposedly holding a captured talon spy. I tink eef I vant to get in I vill need to make short trip to ze keetchens. As he spoke his hand played with a small metal tin in his pocket.

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" But miss would you not be afraid to meet a Talon, I know I would be," said Rain almost rolling her eyes, why did the rich like to make every thing like a romance novel, " I would not know what a Talon looked like any way." Leading the other in to think that she was overtaking with her presents was becoming fun, as the Nobel had no ideal that she was talking to one of the 'really handsome' Talons.

Danna lay on a cot he had been sober for two whole days now, siting up he looked out of his cell, nothing. Where were Rain and Borkah? Why did they not come to save him? Rubbing one of his injuries he laid back down. He had not told anyone about the rest of his squad so they tried to torture it out of him, but he still did not talk, " Where the bloody hell are they" he said to himself he wish he had his whiskey and his cigarettes with him right now.

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"Hm, maybe, but the danger just gives them more of a dashing appeal don't you think?" Nodding to herself sagely she comes to a stop at a smal crossroads. "So which way now?"

Jeremiah now stood above the prone forms of two guards it seemed as if they had simply fallen asleep on the job but he knew btter. After all he had been the one to knock them out. All eet took vas a few pills een their drinks und novone even noticed. He flipped the lid of the small metal tin in his hand covering a number of small white pills before moving forward deeper into the holding cells.

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Rain smiled and said, " Right I think"

Danna heard some one coming, thinking it was one of the guards coming back for a "chat" he sat back up. It was now clear that if he wanted to get out he was going to have to fight his way out.

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Walking along the corridor Jerimiah made a note of cells that lined its walls. Most were empty actuallyand those that were actually locked up here seemed to be nothing more than small time criminals, he didnt see anyone who fit the profile of a 'talon elite'. As he approached the last cells of the corridor he stopped and looked straight at young man, probablly not even 18 yet. The boy seemed tense and the look the boy was giving him made him uneasy.
"I guess hyu are ze talon spy they have been speeking ov lately." The doctor looks around the cell and the corridor. "Eet isnt ze fenciest place to stay ees eet?"
Looking back at the boy he makes a short bow.
"I em sorry I forgot to introduce myselfv I em Doktor Jereemiah Heelbing, I em part ov a group known es ze Moneetors ve are here to...retreeve hyu and hyour friends. Zo if you vouldnt mind could hyu pleez nat glare et me like that."
As he finished speaking he narrowed his eyes and held the set of keys he had lifted off the guards infront of the cell.

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Danna gave the man a good hard look with his red eyes before getting up and going to the front of the cell, the man did not look as if he was of any threat. "All right Dock get me the bloody hell out of this rust bucket," said Danna now returning to his normal cocky self, knowing the next time he saw Rain that he was going to pay her back for leaving him in there.

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Mumbling slightly,"Hyu are supposed to sey pleeze...", the Doc sets about unlocking the cell door with the guards key. Finally opening the door he steps aside to allow Danna room to exit.
"So, how meny others are ve going to hav to retrieve?Ve received very little invoremation about hyour group."
Looking Danna up and down he shook his head. "First things first though, hyu need new cloves, a deesguise eef hyu vere. Und vhile ve do dat hyu need to be treated asvell, your body ees badly hurt. Come theese vay."
The doc promptly started walking back through the cooridor., only pausing to make a quick glance back.
"Comeeng or not?"

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It took a moment for Danna to realize what Jeremiah was saying, as he steeped out of the cell. Why did he have to get stuck with the one who had a bad accent any way?
" Just two more, a big guy and a short little girl," he said as he grasped one of his wounds.' No shit captain obvious 'thought Danna as he followed the short medic.

As the two passed the sleeping' guards, Danna stop and took back his cigarettes. He was not about to go anywhere without them, and he did not care what the old Doctor had to say.
later on
'Oi, watch it " yelled Danna as the Doctor was trying to do his vary best to fix up his injuries but Danna was not being a very good patient.

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They had made it a fair distance from the holding cells with little notice and were now situated in one of the small guard barracks, which was currently empty. "Really kids these days, hyu really shouldnt smoke those, they are not only veak, but also of poor make. Eef you vant to smoke hy should get nice zigars or a pipe, much better than zose cheap little things."As danna tried to struggle under his care Jeremiah made sure to tie the last bandage extra tight around his shoulder. "There how does zat feel?" Then handing Danna a set of guards cloths he motiond to the nearbye changing room."Here change eento these cloths, after zat ve shall zee about finding ze others.

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"Like I have just been made in to a mummy," moaned the Talon as the Doctor finished with the last of the bandage. He really hated Doctors as they would all ways lecture him about his smoking and or his drinking but at lest this one did not tell him to quit just smoke something else. Now picking up the uniform he moved to the changing room in a few minuets he came back dressed in his new disguise, the old one in his hand, he did not like it as much as the last one, but it felt good to be wearing clean clothes. Looking in one of the mirrors he saw that he still looked like he was a Cyclonian so to fix that he pulled the hood over his head, he would have to be careful thou, as his eyes would be a dead give a way.
"All right, where to now" he asked now ready to get on the move.

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"Tell me vere the other agents are vorking and I kan tell hy vere ve are going."
Looking down at his watch he shook his head a little.
"Eet ees nat like ve heve all dey, so ve will need to head to ze closet ov ze two first and pick ze other vone up on our vay out."

Having finally made it to the staff room Chusi hesitated for a second. "Oooh, I hope their in here, ready?"
Without waiting for a reply she opened the door and strode in taking note of all the workers who seemed to be hustling around the room. Suddenly one of the workers hurried his way over to them.
"Ms. Hewilton? Oh thank heavens, your father has been asking for you for the last few hours, where have you been? No matter, come with me youve been asked to attend a dinner between the Steward, your father and some important guests." Turning to leave the man stops short before facing raina nd speaking again. "Wait a moment please milady. You, girl, go to the kitchens and help the staff there prep everything for the dinner they are understaffed at the moment. Also tell the chef that the steward requested the chowder instead of the planned harvest soup. Now go!"
Turning back to Chusi he makes the worls most insincere smile.
"Thak you for waiting milady, if you would be so kind as to follow me please?"
Turning on heel he lead Chusi out with a somewhat strikken look on her face.

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" Borkah would be some where around the main timing shaft,' said Danna, " but for Rain have I no bloody Idea where she be, but she be a working as a maid."

"Yes sir", said Rain wanting to rip the man a part, he was one of the top managers on Terra Glockenchime but he was very rude to his workers and even more so to the women. Deciding that it would be better to follow behind the two of them, if not for information then for the fun of it. It was not like she had any thing to louse now anyway. She stayed far in the shadows but she was close enough to hear what they where saying...

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"Vell, I then I tink ve should find zis...Boar-keh? first since ve know vere he should be. Den ve vill find zis Rain."
Taking a right at the next fork in the corridor he walks up a set of stairs leading towards the main time shaft. "Come ve must hurry or your absence vill be noticed."

Oh no, this is bad, I wasnt supposed to actually meet the father. Damn, this is bad. How am I going to trick him into thinking im the real Alice Hewilton, we might look slightly alike but surey he'll recognize that im not his daughter.
"You can't believe what an honor it is for you and your father to grace us so soon again. The favor which your family brings to our terra has our highest gratitude."
"Yes im sure it does." You greasy little suck-up.
The man nodded and his smile seemed to grow in its insincerity.
"Please if theres anything you need please just ask.
I need something allright, to smack that smile of yours off of your face that is.....wait, maybe...
putting on the sweetest voice she could she leaned in closely to him."Weeell, you woulnt happen to know anything about any cyclonians on the terra would you? If you did, you would tell me right? Youd do your best ot help little old me with aaanyhting right? Hmm?"
Balking somewhat he only managed to stutter out a few mixed garbles. "Ah...um..guh..we-well..."
Take that you smarmy little git.

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The tall boy followed the short medic up a set of stairs; in all honest he thought that he should be kinder to the man, after all the doctor got him out of the prison and helped to fix him up. He figured that he should at lest tell the man his name, "Danna," said the boy, "Danna Garridan, it's my name."

The smile on Rain's face was the same that any Talon in Master Cyclonis's army carried, but she was really enjoying the look of discomfort on the man's face. She giggled quietly into her hand as he tried to stutter out a reply.


"Ah...um..guh..we-well...you see lady Alice…um…there are um are no cyclonians on this terra any more, we have dealt with that scoundrel, he will be no problem to you, Milady. "Said the man more confidently at the end, he did not want the heiress to know about any Talons that may or may not be running around Terra Glockenchime, as he wanted to keep his job.

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"Hm, really is that so? I am sure there were rumors that there were three of them, not only one...guess I was mistaken."
Pulling away from the man she put on a pouty face and played with the front bangs of her hair. "Well thats just not any fun and I suppose im going to have to sit through one of daddies business dinners again. Oh phooey I hate those dinners, there so booooring.....will you be there?" With the last question she had leaned in close again with a slightly hopefull smile on her face, and a full blown evil cackle ringing in her head.

"Danna," said the boy, "Danna Garridan, it's my name."
Glancing back at the boy shortly he nodded and held out his hand. "Vell hyu alreddy know my name, so I vill just go vith 'nice to meet hyu'."

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The older man nodded and held out his hand, Danna hesitantly shook the hand as if he was not sure what to do but said " It's nice to me you too, Jeremiah". This was a very rare this for all of his life he was called derogatory things. To have some one treat him with respect and dignity was something he almost never saw, and he had to say it felt good.


Borkah liked simplicity, to his astonishment that was what the Timepulse was. The tower was like a good old fashion clock that sometimes needed repair or a good winding. But it was also like a clock in what power it, gears. If any thing happened to one of them then the whole thing would break. Clad in the uniform of a Glockenchime engineer with the aid of a Chroma Crystal that had not only changed his hair (now blond and tied up) but it also hid his scar. He could get as close as he wanted to the inner workings with out raising supposition.

The manager gave Chusi a superficial bow and said, " Please my lady do not concern your self with his 'kind'. He is going to get what is coming to him and where may I ask did you hear such a rumor any, and yes I will be present at the dinner Miss."


Rain's fun had ended for now any way. The only way to get any more 'information' was for her to get into the dinner. To do that she was going to have to talk to the head chef.

"I am sorry to bother you but the manager has told me that the steward requested the chowder instead of the harvest soup." Said Rain to the cook.

" Damn it and we all ready started the soup, All right people there has been a change to the menu the steward wants chowder," said the man before he whisper to the spy "so how's your mission going?"The cook was not just a very nice man but also a former Talon, and so far he had helped her out a lot.

"Not well, I have to get in to the dinner," she whispered back.

"Don't worry about that I can get you in but be careful as I heard the steward and the manager talk about Sky knights being there."

'grate' thought Rain.

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"Oh I heard it the rumors here and there, mostly from the guards." Waving the question off Chusi straightened herself up again and strode towards the large door which led to the dining hall. "Its also good to here that youll be joining us it will be so much more...fun this way." Smiling brightly she pulled out a small fan and snapped it open, in effect hiding the lower part of her face.
Allowing the man to open the door she followed close behind before she was accosted by a small grey haired man. "Oh it is good to have you back on the terra miss Hewilton. Im soory to say, but your father has been delayed and will be late joining us for dinner." Leading her to the table he gestured to a seat and pulled it out for her to sit on. "Have a seat why dont you. mis Hewilton?"
"Oh, why thank you, I believe I will."
Taking a seat she looked arouind the table and glanced over the guests. There were a three businessmen to her right, some officials of terra glockenchime were across from her and some miscelaneous dignitaries from other terras were spread around the room. Her eyes narrowed slightly when she spotted the last group...sky knights, five of them, three humans, a wallop and one of those rabbit things. They might pose a problem.

"Now, keep up. Ve have almost reached ze main shaft, though once we are there I have little idea vere to go, I only had the rough schematics to study, no details." Grumbling to himself he cursed the lack of intel they had been able to gether on terra Glockenchime. The terra was in constant motion both thanks to the constant movement of gears of all sizes and the constant modifications and maintenance that needed to be performed, coupled with the fact that the terra was already heavily guarded meant it was hell getting even a simple map of the place.
stepping into the main time shaft he allowed himself a quick second of appreciation of the great piece of mechanical genious before facing Daran again. "So vere is your frend, he is here ya?"

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Danna scanned the room for the other talon but it was not easy, there where more then one engineer in the place but in the far back he saw one that had look like he might be his squad mate but he was not sure.
" I think that's him," said Danna pointing over to the blond man in the back. Not wanting to call attention to himself he whet around so that none of the workers would see him.

"Phsss hey Borkah that you" he said in hushed tones so only the other would hear. The n man jumped some then look both was before responding.

" Danna?" said the other sounding almost surprised to see the green hair talon out of the prison.

"What you miss me" said Danna with his signature smirk.

Rain entered the dinner hall she cared a tray full of appetizers for the gust. To her horror it was not just any sky knight's squadron, but the Storm hawks whom had been invited. They where one of the only squadrons that her teacher and the other commanders had forbid her squad from fighting. Her heart beat accelerated, what if they recognized her from the invasion of Terra Atmosia. Either way this was not good she had to get out of there, just then.

"Girl I thought I told you to help in the kitchen," said the manager angrily his face all red.

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Observing the pair he held hismelf back for a miute to let them talk before walking up to them both. "Ees everyting hokay? Then ve must leave." Glancing at Borkah he just nodded. "Ve vill do introduction later. Danna, hyu are vith me, ve vill leave first den, hyu," At this he gestured to Borkah. "vill follow after a few minutes, meet us just outside main time shaft, good? Good, lets go Danna." Making it look like he was taking notes on his little notepad he made his way through the large room to the doors hoping that Danna was following close behind.

Storm Hawks...I here Cyclonis has got a big reward for their heads, I wonder how big? Bleh, stupid idea, I can hear Dak in my head right nowe 'Sss, no we will go after our misssion, the ssstorm hawkss will be around to hunt another time but the misssion needss to be done now.' Damn overgrown gecko.
{elsewhere}
"ACHOO! Gah, what wasss that?"
The voice only received a shrug a half hearted answer in return.
"I dunno, allergies?"
{Back on Glockenchime}
"So miss Hewilton, how have you enjoyed your stay on Glockenchime so far?"The question came from one of the businessmen next to her.
"Well, its been passable so far but really theres been nothing for me to do. I did hear some innteresting rumors though."
At this the businessman perked up.
"Rumors? Really, about what?"
"Well believe it or not, there are supposed to be..." Chusi glanced around a bit and whispered just quiet enough for the others in the room to hear without letting them know she had meant to. "..Talons on the terra. Its awfully exciting I think, their keeping it quiet but I heard it from the guards and servants."
The man was shocked and back away somewhat. "TALONS!? On the terra?"
The mananger had been tearring into Rain at that moment became distracted buy the growing commotion. "By all rights I should have you THROWN off the terr-ah? Oh no, um, ah please calm down..ah, oh this is bad..."
Suddenly one of the storm hawks spoke up, the red head.
"Talons, on the terra? Where are they?"
"There he goes back into work mode again, maan i was looking forward to the feast being held in my-i mean our honor. Its not everyday someone saves the timepulse afterall." that was the blond one.
"Yeah, so was I. Just imagining all that food." The wallop this time.
"And the chicks."The blond gave a goofy smile as he said this and winked in Chusis direction.
The girl behind them both responded waving her hands infront of their faces. "Guys focus, please!? Just this once?"
These are the Storm Hawks?"