Night 64: Quarry

[tasteoftruth]

[From here.]

Badd frowned as they approached the mouth of the pit. Looked like a quarry, hopefully abandoned, but who knew. "Looks like we're not the first ones up here," he grumbled, inspecting the rocks below him. "That means we're not off the map yet. No idea if this is Landel's work or someone else...I don't know what Landel would need with a bunch of rocks but then again Landel never made any sense."

If it was abandoned and the institute didn't know about it, that meant they might have a chance of escaping detection.

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[corvus_veritas]

A mine shaft? Really? Huh. Guess it made some sense for a mine to be near a quarry, but it didn't explain why both were so close to the Institute. As curious as the idea of a mine was, though, Byrne still wanted to stay here. He'd barely started searching this area, after all. Why leave now?

Besides, Badd didn't need to wait up there alone without doing anything, did he? And he was more than capable of taking care of himself.

"Only if you think it's safe enough!" the prosecutor called back after a moment of thinking it over. He paused; then another thought came to mind, and he added, "Don't go too far, okay? I'll stay here and see if I can find anything useful."

This ridge was big enough, right? Who knew what Byrne could find here. Without Badd's flashlight, though, he would have to be extra careful not to fall...

[tasteoftruth]

Badd was reluctant to leave Byrne alone, but he'd only be gone a moment. If Byrne screamed Badd could be back in less than ten seconds. "I won't. I'll just go up and see if it's caved in or not," he said, and reluctantly took the beam of his flashlight off Byrne and back onto the path before him.

Badd began walking up the path between the rusting minecar rails, leaving the dim light of the moon and stars for the shadow of the mine shaft.

"And I'll be right back."