peeva on a chase through an active construction site in the Cogs. yes, i was not kidding
In the grand scheme of everything she had left behind, the Cogs was not technically the worst place Peeva had ever been. It was far from pleasant, hot and stuffy and all too cramped, filled with people the city would rather forget existed, but it was part of her new home all the same. Better in some aspects than living in Riedra, where Inspired Lords controlled the movements of everyone who lived and breathed.
That being said.
That being said.
Reidran building techniques and codes would've been appreciated right about now. Because, in any place of repute, she should not have even been able to get onto such rickety scaffolding.
"They're getting away!" Kai shouted, sending Rook flying after a half-elven thief weaving through the building's shell. The bird spun in a spiral, keeping on his quarry and giving Peeva a clear line of sight through the ropes and splintering wood.
Hand over hand, Peeva climbed up a ladder and made a dash to the inside of this tower, still being repaired after a reported terrorist attack on the city. Tapping on her gauntlets, she sent a bolt of energy flying, aiming for the thief's legs to hopefully slow them down. Another shot rang out from outside the shell, loud in the way only Chib's strange wands worked.
"Both missed!" he called from above. She nodded and continued up the ladders, hearing a scuffle from above and the cold clanking of Ghoul's armor. A tussle, one where he was trying to keep the rogue from getting away. Almost certainly with Basgrac's help, if he had gotten there in time.
"Well you're a slippery bastard," Ghoul said from above. His head appeared over the pit as he looked down to her. "Is Kai down there?"
As if on cue, the elf appeared on the other side of the floor, looking up as well. "Down here, big guy."
"Peeva, can you catch him?"
A beat. "What????"
"Yes or no, can you catch an entire person."
She stammered, weighing her options. Theoretically, if she activated her powers with enough reaction time, she and the thief wouldn't get flattened by him falling several stories straight down. If that failed, her armor might be strong enough.
That was a lot of mights and probablys. But, then again, no one here was particularly concerned with either.
"Yes?"
"Get ready to tie 'im up, Kai!"
With a shout and several grunts from above, she watched Ghoul push the half-elf from an upper balcony, sending him into freefall. She counted, waited, the psionic energy flowing at her fingertips and her eyes all but glowing. And at the last possible second, she sent out the telekenetic power—Feather Fall, they called it here—keeping him from meeting a quite gristly end on the rubble below.
She let out a long sigh of relief.
Thankfully, Kai had a faster reaction than the slowly falling thief, and she was able to successfully bind him up in a manner of seconds. The boys followed in short order, meeting them on the reasonably sturdy floor.
"Alright, I'd say we got..." Basgrac did some quick math on his fingers before giving up. "Well the Watch won't give a rat's arse, but someone probably will sooner or later."
"Assuming the floor doesn't give way before then," Chib muttered, turning to the wide-eyed half-elf looking up at the very colorful group before him. "So, if I were you, I'd start talking now."
