Stone Men In Water Street

[Rezantis]

Rez doesn't quite ignore Bjorn, but does bury his head under a couple of pillows.

[Bjorn]

Bjorn sighs, forcibly yanks the covers back from Rez' head, and starts dribbling cold water in his ear.

[Rezantis]

Rez yelps, grabs the nearest thing to hand - a pillow - and attempts to sweep it around and smack Bjorn in the head.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!"

[Bjorn]

Casually blocking the pillow-strike with his free hand, Bjorn remarks, "This glass is still three-quarters full.  You still thirsty, or are you going to get up now?"

[Rezantis]

"Alright, alright, I'm awake, dammit."

Rez gets up and stomps off to th bathroom, muttering imprecations.

[Bjorn]

While Rez showers, Bjorn meditates.  But carefully watches the bathroom door, too.

[Rezantis]

Vaguely clean, clothed, and even having (for once) shaved, Rez comes out of the bathroom and notices flashyness on his mobile.

He promptly reads the message, sighs, and hands the phone to Bjorn.

"Well, what do you know . . ."

[Bjorn]

"Jesus.  Even dead he can fuck things up."  Bjorn scowls.  "Okay.  So that was definitely them with the hijacking.  The Cabal wasn't looking specifically for them, though.  That's good.  But they're going to start looking into things, and what then?"

[Rezantis]

"Then, depending just HOW much attention Drac and co drew to themselves - worst case, a lot, so we'll assume that - they'll know who they are, and they'll probably be able to find out that Ryan McGrail's credit card was used to buy both their tickets . . . and two tickets from Dallas to Montgomery, just after the hijacking.  Fuck."

[Bjorn]

"Yeah.  Fuck."  Bjorn says glumly, and then thinks.  "Okay," he says, after a while, "let's assume they know your name.  The thing we have to do is divert their attention from Montgomery.  So we do that by not showing up for that flight, or even in Dallas at all.  That way, they'll think it was a decoy, and ignore the two locations."  He grimaces.  "I actually tried to pull that same stunt just before they picked me up.  If they remember that....

"So the second part of that is making sure they can't trace us when we do go to Montgomery.  We're supposed to meet Victor tonight, right?  I don't think we can make it driving, so we're gonna have to fly out of Austin."

[Rezantis]

"Which involves us paying cash, which thankfully I have a fair bit of to hand - I just need to change it away from Australian money."

[Bjorn]

"Cash?  Why... oh, I see.  Shit.  They'll know about Jacob Housner now, right?  Pissbuggarfuck."

Bjorn sighs, and scratches his forearm.  "Okay.  We can get the money changed at the airport.  So let's get going, and find a hotel close to the airport.  We can park the van, leave it unlocked, and take the hotel shuttle to the airport."

[Rezantis]

"Not neccessarily, but they might find out, so it's probably better if we leave no trail.  I like that plan, except . . . " Rez produces the warbag, "figure out what you want in here, like Shinmyouken, because producing it outside of here is probably not the best plan."

[Bjorn]

"Dammit."  Bjorn makes a face, and then hands Rez Shinmyouken.  "You'd better take this.  I don't think it's worth the risk."  He grins, crookedly.  "And since I don't own anything other than the satchel that's got my clothes, that's about it.  Nice and convenient, eh?"

[Rezantis]

"Tell me about it."  Rez is about to offhand the bag again, then catches himself, "Oh - I should probably tell Relm what we're doing, actually.  One sec."  

Rez starts digging out the uplink.