Linna! What are we going to do?" Linna shook her head and tightened her
grip on the umbrella. "I don't think there's anything we can do, Nene.
It's just going to take time." Time that they had thought that they had
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cruelly taken from them by of all things a motorcycle accident. That
was perhaps the cruelest part of allthis, that someone who had risked
of this
thought she might go mad from the pain. 'My Priss! Oh God, why did you
leave me? You promised you'd never leave me!' Sylia buried her face in
her hands and wept. As the rain continued, she gave in and threw back
her head to rage at the indifferent sky above. "Why!" She screamed
again, a wordless expression of agony that brought Linna and Nene to
her side.
A fine display of phony theatrical grief. The person I loved most
recently died. It's not like that. Not, at least for someone who
normally keeps her feelings to herself. You break down and cry at times
when you can't bear it any more, but you don't go around screaming for
the benefit of the audience.
Sylia was non-pulsed. "Accident?" Taisei immediately signaled
Arashi, but there was no response.
nonplussed
Leon nodded and reached into his pocket. His hand gripped the
metal fragment and he desperately wished that he did not have to do
this. "Apparently a car ran a red-light and struck Priss' bike head
on." He drew a deep breath. "There were no survivors."
Ran a red light? How do you hit a vehicle head on by running a red light?
Leon hated to tell her this but she needed to know. "Both
vehicles exploded on impact, Sylia. We didn't find enough to make a DNA
match, but it was Priss' bike and we found... that."
Only an idiot would buy that story.
"You have information that we require." She shrugged faintly.
"It's my job to extract that information."
"What information?"
"The names of the other Knight Sabers."
Well...duh. Let's start with her lover and her two closest living friends.
"To what she asks! To the fact that you're sleeping with another
woman!" Even though same sex relationships were a matter of course in
The KS are all lesbians? Oh, what am I asking? Of course they're all lesbians.
They're anime females.