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side: hell

[ The light which spread everywhere intensifies, gaining not just brightness but color. It focuses with its intensity, golden lines swarming your vision. And where the gold coalesces, it leaves space between with a black that opens out like a sea, sweeping across your vision as your eyes adjust until you can see the truth of your new surroundings.

The golden bars are not the gates that welcomed you in.

They're the bars to a cell you've been dumped in with your unfortunate compatriots. A cell that sits in an inky sea of darkness, broken up not by light across objects in your vision but by brilliant colors each so solid that the darkness cannot cover them up. And, in your vision, guarding the cage is a figure, with six wings, each as golden as the bars. Their eyes are a milky expanse of white-blue light, emanating outwards, like they've caught you in headlights.

A jailer's keyring sits at their waist. ]

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[Oh. Well, that's... something?

She attempts to kick them.]

[ She kicks them! They feel brittle!

A little hole disintegrates in one of them ]

[NICE.

KICKING WILL CONTINUE WITH INCREASING FORCE.]

[ she does that.

Also, the man is fairly clearly just. Watching her do that. ]

[Well he can keep watching.

After some more kicking she tries Crumble, too.]

[ Don't cause earthquakes in elevators!

which is to say, this causes a lot more swaying than you might expect, as the room jolts up against the walls it is confined by

it doesn't help that much with the bars, but that one bar is pretty abused by now. she can probably see at the base it doesn't seem to be set into the ground of the cell. Instead there's a small circle drawn in glowing lines. ]

...

[She kneels down and uses the cuff of her sleeve to wrap her hand this time before grabbing the bar from the bottom and seeing if she can yank it free.

Meanwhile she finally addresses the man watching her, casually.]

Where are you planning on taking us?

[ it less is yanked free and more disintegrates when parted from where it should be, rather than being knocked or yanked from alignment ]

Nowhere. Not without orders.

[Going to see if she can slip out through the opening left by the missing bar.]

And who do you take orders from?

[ When she tries, as she tries to pass through, the gold circle beneath it lights up even brighter and sends a beam of light upwards to fix the bar back in place.

hopefully she had the reflexes not to get skewered by that ]

My employer.

[She gets a shoulder maybe two inches into the gap before the bar shoots up again and she jumps back, startled for a moment before letting out a frustrated huff.]

...And what if your employer is the one who sent us here in the first place?

No difference made.

So we all just hang out here until someone tells you to let us out?

[glances around at everyone]

I hope you're paid well.

Well enough.

[ He sighs ]

You also get a call. Before your bail, trial, or punishment, whichever comes first.

...Can I talk to someone about which one of those is going to come first?

Not up to you. Or me.

[sighs]

What is up to you, exactly?

The skill and effort I put into my duty.

It doesn't seem like you're putting much effort in to me.

Correct.

So the only thing you can decide is how lazy you want to be, and you've picked "very"?

You are worth nothing more.

Neither are you, apparently.

[And with a shrug, she turns to go see what Intensity is doing.]

Are you forfeiting your phone call?

...No. I'll take it in a minute. I just need to check something.

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