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Post by Evangeline on Sept 22, 2009 3:40:52 GMT -5
"Coastal trade then." Rihanna nodded. "And I suppose they have the odd cattle drive as well?" She had heard the practice had been revived along with the reappearance of a "vaquero" culture in the border regions. Salted and dried meat, and smaller amounts of refrigerated, would be coming out of here as well.
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Post by elizar on Sept 22, 2009 7:15:06 GMT -5
"Not over here." Roundup shook his head. "You Hawaiian may be too dreaming to miss the reality over here, but we Texans still know what a barbed wire is. There's still some in the more unsettled areas, such as those which are in the vicinity of any ground zero."
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 22, 2009 17:07:00 GMT -5
"OK." Rihanna nodded. "In Hawaii, we still have some ranching culture because importing meat is difficult and expensive. Better to breed our own and keep it on the hoof." She sighed. "I must confess that I haven't seen much of the countryside outside of salvage zones."
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Post by elizar on Sept 22, 2009 17:42:41 GMT -5
"Isn't Hawaii too small for cattle drives?" Roundup asked. While Rihanna was nice eyecandy, he felt that she was skirting the issue of why she wanted to speak with him. They would have gone and discussed business already if she had been looking for fast cash-in, avoid hunting relics but still return victorious.
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 22, 2009 21:54:28 GMT -5
"OK, I'll get to the point then." Rihanna sat up and squared her shoulders. "This will sound absolutely wild, but what these people are promising, their leader can actually deliver - in a fashion. He can make them perfect, or anything they want to look like. What he wants in return is their whole mind and soul."
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Post by elizar on Sept 22, 2009 22:16:39 GMT -5
Roundup was in stunned silence, but he had the decency to not be a mouthbreather in the meantime. He looked away from Rihanna and looked towards the exit of the building. But he was not about to run away. He was looking at the exit with intent. He was trying to visualize the pair, the catgirl and the teen helicopter.
"Was she a car?" He said in a very low tone, that low that Heavensangel didn't manage to hear anything else but a mumble.
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 23, 2009 17:57:40 GMT -5
"A bush plane, actually." Rihanna answered, taking a PDF out of her shoulder bag. She punched up the photo album and handed the device to Roundup. "A Twin Otter. This was her before she went missing. When she was next seen as an aircraft, she had been considerably "prettied up."
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Post by elizar on Sept 23, 2009 19:22:13 GMT -5
Roundup looked at the PDA but Heavensangel, who had been listening in, took it after a moment and examined it himself. "So you want us to drive them off?" Heavensangel asked.
"If what you're saying is true, the problems wouldn't go away there." Roundup said.
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 23, 2009 22:08:57 GMT -5
"The helo kid is the son of one of our team, and the girl has family worried sick about her." Rihanna stated emphatically. "We want to try everything possible to recover and rehabilitate them. Of course, we have to catch them first."
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Post by elizar on Sept 24, 2009 6:48:05 GMT -5
"So that's why you asked for the local know-it-all guide." Roundup smiled. The topic of 'what went wrong with daddy dearest' had to wait, and was wholly inappropriate to bring up right now.
"Someone of your intellect has probably gotten some plan thrown together now." Roundup continued. "What have you gotten so far?"
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 24, 2009 15:51:28 GMT -5
"We have the assistance of the Coast Guard helo - you might know her - because she's concerned for her own daughter." Rihanna glanced out the tavern window at the traffic outside. "And a couple of others. We're going to try to draw them into the old convention center where they can't easily escape."
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Post by elizar on Sept 24, 2009 16:01:52 GMT -5
"Risky." Roundup said. "But I don't have any reason to believe that either of them are armed, excluding the blades and teeth of the Oka."
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 24, 2009 17:03:33 GMT -5
"And they are famously renowned for both." Rihanna frowned. "Hopefully we can convince him to keep cool and think about who he really is and what he's doing." Her stomach growled, and her eyes went to the small bill of fare that stood on its own stand in the center of the table.
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Post by elizar on Sept 24, 2009 17:37:49 GMT -5
Heavensangel noticed Rihanna eyeing the menu and nodded slightly. "Pick what you like. I'll also pay for your friend's breakfast tomorrow."
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Post by Evangeline on Sept 24, 2009 20:08:09 GMT -5
"I think I'll go for the arroz con pollo." Rihanna said at last. She'd had a hankering for the Mexican chicken-and-rice recipe for the last little while. "And at some point I should introduce you to Sandra."
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