Issue 25, Page 32
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1: Lea has further lowered her hands but is still doing her best to look innocuous.
Lea: She’s right. There’s a cover-up going on, they don’t want people to look too closely at the moon.
But… I think you’ve seen it…
2: Tullus’s worried expression as he watches her.
Tullus: You’re lying.
Lea: You know I’m not.
I know most Roman temples have private observatories… Ours is locked up, but is yours?
If you’ve seen it, then.. you know how bad it is.
We’re trying to fix it.
3: Tullus looks away and lowers his gun, thinking, looking worried.
Tullus: What is it?
4: Zara lowers her gun.
Zara: Go look.
Part of you will know.
Lea: M- Zara, no…
5: Tullus crouches a little and begins to hastily make his way to the left.
Tullus: By the Gods, if you’re lying…
6: He has hastily limped down the ramp to grab his cane.
7: He now quickly limps up a ramp to leave the area.
Seems like a dangerous play to make, but it does look like it’s working. Hopefully this doesn’t have repercussions for “Lea” and “Zara.”
…Did she…did she just decide shooting him was too risky so she opted to kill/remove him a different, more horrifying way?
I doubt she wanted to shoot him in the first place. (If nothing else, him disappearing and someone eventually finding the body at the bottom of the archives would lead to Bad Things. Assuming, of course… there isn’t already a Sleeping Bad Thing at the bottom just waiting for some*body* to stumble close.) But this? Worst case scenario, he’s turned into a mark that they already have people dealing with. Best case? He sees, he realizes, and he agrees. Getting an ally out of someone in a position of authority like him is a gamble she’s decided she’s willing to make, it seems.
Either way, he’s out of the archives for a while. They can keep searching while he decides if he’s going to look or not.