Primordial Luxa wrote:[
A Gang of Freaks
Keeping one hand on her mace Elinor reached down and took the document. Slowly she flipped through it but kept glancing up at Alice to make sure she wasn’t doing anything dangerous. Elinor though the idea that she was being tailed preposterous, she might have been dangerous but surely she would have noticed if strange people were stalking her.
“I’m more curious why help me in the first place. You need help with something, you need me to blow up for you, don’t you?”
"No I don't want you to blow up..." there was a pause, Alice glanced about warily, "I'm really fighting the urge to rant about protecting the Constitution. I will try to tone it down a bit... Our country used to stand for something but as people became afraid, afraid of the likes of us, they gave it up. They traded their ideals for a gang of thugs and murderers who act in ways we would have though abhorrent a generation ago; increasingly, anything goes if it brings order to our streets. I don't want you to become a part of the problem and if you carry on as you are, sooner or later you'll be approached by someone who would very much like you to explode. You might be threatened, you might be offered money, you might be told its your patriotic duty, but in the end the question will be the same. I just want to give you another option."