they had been holding at the depot as well as the girls, not to mention the loss of fifteen of their men. Even worse for them, the ACPD would be on to them now in a way they never had before. They had people for questioning, girls to testify, and copious amounts of contraband to impound. There was enough in the depot to prosecute Tyrone and his people as well as to crack open the investigation into Underhaven.
I had left it all to the police on a silver platter and they didn’t disappoint me. Life was about to get much harder for Underhaven - the fire I saw in the eyes of the young detective assured me of that.
It pleased me to see such human decency and care from the people who were now seeing to the girls, and for the first time since I came to Azure I felt a heartening sense of kinship with the ACPD.
They would still struggle to find Underhaven and pin the ringleaders down, and if Crow was right about the kinds of people working for the sleazy organisation then they would have a hard time managing that threat - but they had me for all of that. It was enough to know they would be ready and waiting to do their bit when I made my move.
I was far from finished with Underhaven. Tonight was just the beginning; a hopefully crippling blow to let them know that I was coming for them. Tonight let them know that their time was now limited – that they were no longer untouchable. Let them run scared in the knowledge that they were being stalked in the very same darkness they once used to hunt innocents.
Tyrone had given me all I needed to escalate things. I now knew where to find their other safe house in Gallowgate, and I knew where I would find the boss of their Gallowgate operations. On top of that I knew where a large amount of their drug supplies were coming from and Tyrone confirmed that Underhaven was, unsurprisingly, based in the Honeypot district. The meetings for the different branches of Underhaven convened at Club Surrender, and it seemed that the red mistress chaired the meetings as the representative of their true leader.
I had many leads, many ways to begin destroying Underhaven – even if they now knew I was coming for them – and I was committed to seeing this through.
But for tonight, I was done. My previous encounters had taken it out of me and the sun would soon be coming up. I needed to head home and get some much needed rest – hopefully not thinking about the perverse fantasies that Lenny had awoken me to.
I stood vigil over the crime scene until the last of the girls was taken away safely before finally creeping away into the remains of the night.
My journey home took me nearly an hour as I navigated my way around the Azure rooftops. I left Gallowgate behind me and entered the marginally nicer district of Old Town. Once the beating heart at the centre of the emergent city, it was now a forgotten obscurity of cheap residential areas and markets. The place had undeniable character which attracted me to it – but more than that, it was central to the parts of the city that most needed attention like mine. As well as that, the warren-like nature of the Old Town made it perfect for me to quickly and invisibly make my way to and from my home.
I made a final jump between rooftops, using my telekinesis to help me leap that little bit further, and landed on the top of my building. I was situated in a studio apartment – with skylight access – sat just above an old café.
Casting one last look about me, I disengaged the locks of the skylight and dropped into my apartment. It was nice to be back in a familiar space. My clothes were littered about my bedroom, with the rest of the apartment dominated by the painting apparatus I used in my day job. Canvas paintings lay strewn about my living area, with a half-finished painting of a cat still awaiting my return in its easel sat facing my double windows, which looked out onto the Azure skyline.
I reached up with my mind and closed my skylight behind me with
I had left it all to the police on a silver platter and they didn’t disappoint me. Life was about to get much harder for Underhaven - the fire I saw in the eyes of the young detective assured me of that.
It pleased me to see such human decency and care from the people who were now seeing to the girls, and for the first time since I came to Azure I felt a heartening sense of kinship with the ACPD.
They would still struggle to find Underhaven and pin the ringleaders down, and if Crow was right about the kinds of people working for the sleazy organisation then they would have a hard time managing that threat - but they had me for all of that. It was enough to know they would be ready and waiting to do their bit when I made my move.
I was far from finished with Underhaven. Tonight was just the beginning; a hopefully crippling blow to let them know that I was coming for them. Tonight let them know that their time was now limited – that they were no longer untouchable. Let them run scared in the knowledge that they were being stalked in the very same darkness they once used to hunt innocents.
Tyrone had given me all I needed to escalate things. I now knew where to find their other safe house in Gallowgate, and I knew where I would find the boss of their Gallowgate operations. On top of that I knew where a large amount of their drug supplies were coming from and Tyrone confirmed that Underhaven was, unsurprisingly, based in the Honeypot district. The meetings for the different branches of Underhaven convened at Club Surrender, and it seemed that the red mistress chaired the meetings as the representative of their true leader.
I had many leads, many ways to begin destroying Underhaven – even if they now knew I was coming for them – and I was committed to seeing this through.
But for tonight, I was done. My previous encounters had taken it out of me and the sun would soon be coming up. I needed to head home and get some much needed rest – hopefully not thinking about the perverse fantasies that Lenny had awoken me to.
I stood vigil over the crime scene until the last of the girls was taken away safely before finally creeping away into the remains of the night.
My journey home took me nearly an hour as I navigated my way around the Azure rooftops. I left Gallowgate behind me and entered the marginally nicer district of Old Town. Once the beating heart at the centre of the emergent city, it was now a forgotten obscurity of cheap residential areas and markets. The place had undeniable character which attracted me to it – but more than that, it was central to the parts of the city that most needed attention like mine. As well as that, the warren-like nature of the Old Town made it perfect for me to quickly and invisibly make my way to and from my home.
I made a final jump between rooftops, using my telekinesis to help me leap that little bit further, and landed on the top of my building. I was situated in a studio apartment – with skylight access – sat just above an old café.
Casting one last look about me, I disengaged the locks of the skylight and dropped into my apartment. It was nice to be back in a familiar space. My clothes were littered about my bedroom, with the rest of the apartment dominated by the painting apparatus I used in my day job. Canvas paintings lay strewn about my living area, with a half-finished painting of a cat still awaiting my return in its easel sat facing my double windows, which looked out onto the Azure skyline.
I reached up with my mind and closed my skylight behind me with
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