He honestly didn't expect it to work! He expected the guard to tell them to fuck off, and to have to find another way into the building -- through the roof, maybe, later that night? -- but instead there's a bunch of chatter, and then they're escorted inside. And it's not to a holding cell, which he'd also have expected, but up into one of the offices, and there, unmistakable even though they've never met, is Luida.
He quickly introduces her before she can call him by name in front of Nicholas, Roberto de Niro, ma'am, a pleasure, and he can tell right away that she's not buying it. But he also sees the way she's looking at Nicholas, and he thinks he can work with that.
It's a strange world out there right now, ma'am, he drawls, as he's sure she's noticed. People are ending up very far away from where they're meant to be. It's a big world, and some of those towns are just worlds apart, wouldn't she agree? Anyway, this young man here, Nicholas -- yes ma'am, you heard that right -- he's become separated from his people. Surely there's a place for him here?
And Nicholas, bless his manipulative little heart, seems to get right in on the act, asking for Miss Melanie so politely that Wolfwood is sure the answer will be yes -- hell, if Melanie's not here, that kind of ask from a cute little kid should send Luida scurrying to find her, wherever she might be. The kid will be just fine, Wolfwood thinks with relief. He won't have to...
...and then, in the space between one word and the next, the whole room shifts around him, and Wolfwood finds himself out at the edge of a mesa, surrounded on all sides by desert as far as the eye can see. They can probably hear him, all the way back in Octovern:
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He quickly introduces her before she can call him by name in front of Nicholas, Roberto de Niro, ma'am, a pleasure, and he can tell right away that she's not buying it. But he also sees the way she's looking at Nicholas, and he thinks he can work with that.
It's a strange world out there right now, ma'am, he drawls, as he's sure she's noticed. People are ending up very far away from where they're meant to be. It's a big world, and some of those towns are just worlds apart, wouldn't she agree? Anyway, this young man here, Nicholas -- yes ma'am, you heard that right -- he's become separated from his people. Surely there's a place for him here?
And Nicholas, bless his manipulative little heart, seems to get right in on the act, asking for Miss Melanie so politely that Wolfwood is sure the answer will be yes -- hell, if Melanie's not here, that kind of ask from a cute little kid should send Luida scurrying to find her, wherever she might be. The kid will be just fine, Wolfwood thinks with relief. He won't have to...
...and then, in the space between one word and the next, the whole room shifts around him, and Wolfwood finds himself out at the edge of a mesa, surrounded on all sides by desert as far as the eye can see. They can probably hear him, all the way back in Octovern:
"Oh what the fuck?!