[Episode 16902] [Episode 16902]She pulled herself to standing out of the wreckage, after kicking the door out, and ascertained her condition. The seatbelt and car seemed to have shielded her mostly from the...accident? She had the concussion, and possibly a hairline fracture in her arm. She stumbled, blinkingly, and glanced around.
Their escorts...she had wanted to call them kidnappers despite their assurances that they were being moved for their own protection...seemed to be scattered across the scene. Even confused as she was she could recognize the signs of a massive and one-sided battle.
Apparently her family really had been targetted. It should have sent a thrill fear and despair through her, but she remained too stunned for emotional reactions yet.
They were driving along, and she was fuming in anger and plotting her escape from these obvious kidnappers that Auntie Nodoka was talking so politely with. Some of them were ninja, and a number were yakuza. What sort of protection was this?!
Then there had been the explosion and the car had stopped suddenly. After that everything was black.
She wearily shook her head and tried to clear the haze. She wanted to feel something...anything...beyond this shell-shocked haze that held her unresponsive.
"Auntie Saotome?" she called, looking about the deserted stretch of land. "Saotome-san?" There was no answer. The last name she called in whimper. "Dad?"
She fumbled around the car they had been in, trying to ignore the dead around her that had apparently tried valiantly to protect their charges. She idly counted the shell casings she saw as she looked about for her dad in order to keep the BLOOD and GORE off of her mind.
"Dad?" she called again. Then she stopped and slumped to her knees, intense grief working to break through the punch-drunk blind over her mind.
She'd found her dad.
At least...she'd found his head...
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(Posted Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:31)
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