Description: When Roberto ends up on guard duty, Naerose makes Roberto an offer he can't refuse. In order to gain information on the enemy, Roberto sets Naerose free.
Roberto was groggy the moment it came time for his guard shift to begin again. Unfortunately he didn't get a chance to discuss Naerose's plan with the others but even by himself he didn't like it and Hotaru herself expressed her misgivings with the plan. Until then all they could do right now was hold Naerose and deprive the Shadaloo of one of their fighter.
He sits down in front of the witch and sighs this time deciding that silence is a good idea. The truth about journalism was too much for him to take. While Roberto should probably appreciate this enlightenment, it only served to make him even more uneasy around her. The pen does have potential to be mightier than the soccer ball.
"So.. " The witch says, sounding terribly bored, "You going to untie me now? I mean, I've already done all I can to help you kids out.. you know?" She gives a small smile and tries to get more comfortable, failing.
"Sides, you won't come to Elle as a prisoner, but if you want I could just lead you to her.." Naerose muses to outloud to herself.
"Afterall.. Taking you to the woman should serve all the same purposes, just you'd have to be able to take her down.."
Roberto slides a thumb across his chin. "That idea," he says while his lips curl up into a smile before he continues, "That idea appeals to me a bit more." With a few adjustments of his visor, he turns to the obviously uncomfortable witch. "Of course, this conversation is probably on the record anyway. And for all I know, Elle could be listening in on us as we speak."
As he looks at the witch with his visor just low enough to obscure his eyes. "And there's nothing I can do about it short of searching you for a wire. I probably won't even need to do that since even before you informed me about journalism, it was apparent that being paranoid around you is healthy."
"Oh give me a break, those things take batteries and such and besides, there would be no reception in here and it isn't like I wear one all the time and on top of all of that it isn't like I even LIKE Elle. I'll take you to her if you let me go, you can protect your friends, stop them from getting involved. My side of the bargain, I take you to her alone, you don't like it, you bail, your side, you let me go, Deal?" The witch looks expectantly at Roberto, adjusts her shades and hat and folds her arms a bit, waiting for some sort of reply.
"Ok..." He rises and gets close to the witch. "And as long as you stick to covering the news and not getting involved in the battles that I'm involved in, I'll leave you alone for the rest of this war. That's still contingent on the information being good though." His hands move closer the witch's bonds. "And if you escape, before taking me to her location. Pray you never see me again. Not even in the booth."
"Deal." Naerose says and gives Roberto a smile. She smiles a lot, so it isn't like this is unusual, but this is a bigger smile, she wants to get untied after all.
"So we can get this over with yeah? I need to get back to taking photos or else I won't have enough monies to get home." How much did a ticket out of Thailand cost right now? She didn't want to think about that.
Roberto kneels down and his hands untie her wrists and then they move to her legs to untie her. Afterwards he moves towards the witch's broom and watches her for a moment. He doesn't dare hand her the broom right away. He knows how she can haul ass on the broom, even if doesn't quite seem all that logical.
He begins moving towards the mouth of the cave looking for the witch to lead the way or make her move. "Alright, Naerose let's go."
Naerose HATES to walk but she gives Roberto a sigh, the truth was it isn't like she'd of taken the broom anyway, it just wasn't something she did for long distances. Still people didn't know that so she wasn't going to tell them. She moves to the mouth of the cave with a nod of her head,
"This way then."
"Okay.. So she's right over here, I know it looks like an abandoned building, but it's totally the perfect hiding place," She nods a few times knowingly and leads the dark doorway and through the rubble filled halls. Where? Well who knows, because she sure as heck isn't staying. The moment she's in the darkness she starts to make a run for it. Of course she'll want her broom back, but little did Roberto know it wasn't actually like.. magical or anything, her chi infused in it was really all that mattered and that could be reproduced with any broom. . So totally flees.
Log created on 14:49:07 06/12/2007 by Roberto, and last modified on 19:21:37 06/20/2007.