About Tower Curator
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“We are approaching our target.” “I wish you wouldn’t call her a target,” Dyna said, pushing the goggles back up to her forehead. She shuddered. It took a moment to reorient. It was odd, somehow. She honestly couldn’t tell if the goggles were naturally nauseating or if it was something she was doing. It had taken a few weeks of regular usage for the mirror to go from mundane to artifact according to Doctor Cross—all the tests had come back negative until after the night she used it to…-
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“You’re probably very confused,” Dyna said, keeping her volume down to a minimum. Still in the back of the truck, driving back toward the hospital now, Dyna had to wonder if that was even a good idea. She wanted Ruby somewhere safe, but the hospital was surely surrounded with police at this point. Someone must have seen her get into the back of the large white truck with Matt, either with their own eyes or through the screen of a security camera. The Tartarus van was fairly distinctive. Having…
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Dyna didn’t wait for the nonsense of secret handshake numbers. The second Walter answered his phone, she shouted into the receiver, “Do you have a way of tracking Ruby?” “Tracking?” “Some chip implanted in her phone or… skin or something. You’ve got to have something, right?” Dyna asked. She switched the phone to speaker mode so that she could go back to scrolling through her notes and emails to herself. “Ruby was supposed to be here. She wasn’t supposed to leave my side for any…
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“What’s taking them so long? The city is tiny. You can get anywhere in ten minutes or less.” “Easy,” Ruby said. “They probably want that guy to get us.” “They want to recruit me.” “Then they’re cowards.” “Maybe,” Dyna said. They hadn’t exactly felt like cowards over the phone, even explaining several things about the Hatman without too much prompting. They had even asked where he was the first time around, presumably with the intention of going after him. So when…
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“I can’t believe this.” “I can’t believe we’re here,” Dyna said, peering out the small window in the door. “What if somebody comes?” “Then we tie them up and gag them. More importantly… Why?” “You’ve been complaining the entire time. It’s not that bad.” Ruby stood over a counter, carefully applying a solution of likely caustic chemicals to a flat sheet of aluminum foil. It was thick and sticky. More of a gel than a runny liquid. Ruby had an overlarge mask on and…
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Dyna’s knee bounced up and down in nervous tension as she sat in the Wyoming Medical Center’s emergency room waiting area. Part of that nervousness came from uncertainty over Matt’s state. Was he going to live? Had he lost too much blood? Ruby seemed optimistic. With her natural power, a form of clairvoyance, providing her a constant and perfect picture of her own biology, she knew the human body better than most. So her word held weight. The doctors hadn’t said anything one way or another. Just…
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Dyna sped through the subdivisions at frankly unsafe speeds. Normally, she thought she was a safe driver. She might not exactly follow the speed limit, but she didn’t go so fast that she thought she was in danger of being pulled over. Without fail, she used her blinker, didn’t swerve through multiple lanes of traffic, and kept a respectful yet not aggravating distance from other vehicles. Today, however, she didn’t know that she had time to play it safe. Matt was almost certainly out here in one…
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ATTENTION: Priority Objectives Updated. Please review and acknowledge. PRIORITY 1: Ensure continued safety and cooperation of Primary Asset: Dyna Graves. PRIORITY 2: Locate and acquire Principal Subject: Matthew Quincy. PRIORITY 3: Extract Primary Asset and Principal Subject to CI. PRIORITY 4: Avoid entity codename: Hatman. DO NOT SEEK. PRIORITY 5: Safeguard interests of CI. END OF LINE Ruby’s fingers twitched as she watched Dyna peer out the motel door’s peephole for the tenth…
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“Keep in mind the themes. You will not have analytical tools and will have to rely on intuition based on what the object is or represents. That will likely be the key, attempting to use a mundane object in accordance with its themes should see you infusing your psionic energy into it.” “Alright. And I can do this while already possessing an artifact?” “That answer is slightly more complex. In short, possibly. Though without running tests during the process, we won’t know for…
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“How is Ruby?” Dyna looked over to the sole bed in their cheap motel. Sitting atop the quilted faded floral covers, Ruby laid on her back with her hands pressed against her eyes. Her face wasn’t quite back to normal yet, but it was at least bearable to look at. She mumbled something under her breath over and over again. Leaning a little closer, Dyna frowned. “I’m not going to kill him. That would fail the mission. I’m not going to kill him. That would fail the mission. I’m not…
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