Blackwood Grove, Fandom to Baltimore's Anchor Market, Monday Afternoon

[witchoftheflesh]

Okay, so...Adrian's Market jaunt had been pushed back a few days. Mostly because Pam, Rey, and Lydia had all told him that they were coming along with him. Adrian had tried - briefly, and not well - to point out why that was a terrible and dangerous idea, but all of his arguments against had been taken as arguments for and eventually Adrian had bowed to the inevitable and given in.

But they couldn't just go in. They needed a plan and, even more importantly, they needed disguises.

So first, a meeting here to figure out their story and get them all into the proper disguises, and then it was off to the Market.

If he were going anywhere that wasn't crawling with warlocks, Gilgamesh's enforcers, and had a slave pit to boot, Adrian would almost be excited. Sadly, that was exactly what each Market was like and so he was filled with dread instead.

"Do you think that they'll be more willing to listen to reason and stay here today?" he asked Boston.

The cat didn't even deign to reply, just opened one baleful eye long enough to look at him and then closed it again to nap.

"Yeah," he sighed. "Me neither."

[For the aforementioned ladies please!]

Comments

[joan_of_bark]

"I think they might call a lot of attention to us in this environment," Pam noted. "Honestly, I'm not sure if guns are a thing here."

[thatwaslucky]

"That's sort of what I figured," Rey replied. "The way he talks about it, though, I'd rather be maybe overprepared."

[joan_of_bark]

"Maybe wrap them up in cloth," Pam said. "They won't look conspicuous and unless things get really bad, you can use them as a bludgeon."

[thatwaslucky]

"Hopefully I don't have to even get to bludgeoning," Rey said. "I had to do a lot of things like this through a war, it had to end in shooting more than I'd like."

[joan_of_bark]

"Don't I know it."

Admittedly Pam generally felt a lot less regret than she suspected Rey did, but...

"Let's just keep our fingers crossed we're either being too paranoid or Adrian is about to be too charming for this to turn into a problem."

[thatwaslucky]

"Either of those things is entirely possible," Rey said.