[The lights flickered again. Gordon's shoulders jerked and his head rose from his work.]
[Normally that wouldn't bother Gordon, especially since it had been the power grid they had been working on downstairs for the past few months. No, it was the combination of the sputtering filiments over his head, the chill breeze that fluttered papers on the desk, and the utter quiet that the lab had seemed to be plunged into. Equipment had stopped humming, the seismograph had jerked to a papery halt, and most notably... there were no other voices.]
Ronnae? Shantae? Hello?
[Maybe they had just gone for coffee. Maybe they were examining something and distracted to silence. Maybe. Probably. All the same, something weird and primal that had protected him years ago now had its familiar talonlike grip on the back of his neck, and he quietly gets to his feet and scans the feebly-lit labs.]
[His crowbar lay propped up against the generator. It slides off the ground and into his grip with a quiet, but poignant ring of steel on concrete.]
[The Labs, OTA if you want to find him]
[Normally that wouldn't bother Gordon, especially since it had been the power grid they had been working on downstairs for the past few months. No, it was the combination of the sputtering filiments over his head, the chill breeze that fluttered papers on the desk, and the utter quiet that the lab had seemed to be plunged into. Equipment had stopped humming, the seismograph had jerked to a papery halt, and most notably... there were no other voices.]
Ronnae? Shantae? Hello?
[Maybe they had just gone for coffee. Maybe they were examining something and distracted to silence. Maybe. Probably. All the same, something weird and primal that had protected him years ago now had its familiar talonlike grip on the back of his neck, and he quietly gets to his feet and scans the feebly-lit labs.]
[His crowbar lay propped up against the generator. It slides off the ground and into his grip with a quiet, but poignant ring of steel on concrete.]