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Oct. 5th, 2008 04:52 pmJust keep an eye on that card every now and then, he said. You'll know where to go when the time's right.
Beth's entirely aware that probably means it's magic. Which means there's any number of other things it could be doing. Which means she seriously considers not taking it home with her, in case it could be used to track her -- but the only other place she could keep it is at the shelter, and she won't do that. It'd endanger everybody else there, the ones who come in for food, the ones who work there, Peter --
She won't, that's all.
So she sticks it to the fridge with the same magnet Spike left for her back in May, and that's where it is the Monday after Thanksgiving, when she sees that it's changed. There's an address there now, in that same elegant typeface, like it's been there all along.
Aequitas. She's looked it up. Latin for justice.
It's with a certain sense of fatalism that she steps off the bus a block from the address on the card, five days later, and walks toward the building.
(It's also with the same black wig she wore that night, as a sole concession to paranoia.)
Beth's entirely aware that probably means it's magic. Which means there's any number of other things it could be doing. Which means she seriously considers not taking it home with her, in case it could be used to track her -- but the only other place she could keep it is at the shelter, and she won't do that. It'd endanger everybody else there, the ones who come in for food, the ones who work there, Peter --
She won't, that's all.
So she sticks it to the fridge with the same magnet Spike left for her back in May, and that's where it is the Monday after Thanksgiving, when she sees that it's changed. There's an address there now, in that same elegant typeface, like it's been there all along.
Aequitas. She's looked it up. Latin for justice.
It's with a certain sense of fatalism that she steps off the bus a block from the address on the card, five days later, and walks toward the building.
(It's also with the same black wig she wore that night, as a sole concession to paranoia.)
