IN> "The Waters will Rise!" setting: Janus

[-=|horsefly|=-]

Overheard outside between an Italian diner and a pawnshop in the
Bronx, NY, USA, by Lightning Observation Team Bravo-Gamma-Theta:

"--haven't been able to get hold of him for the last two weeks, man!"

"Take it easy. You never been ignored before?"

"Take it easy? Take it easy?! I'll take you easy!"

"Calm down, 'Ro," [LOT-BGT speculation, speaker is referring to
Loncertero, Calabite Knight of Kleptos], "we all been having a hard
time! I got gems the local Tether won't even take, they're that hot!"

"You don't say?"

"Heh, yeah, swiped 'em off some Novelite. Pleaded with me to give 'em
back. Something about how her Archangel made 'em personally for her."

"Gemstones that look like flowers?"

"Got 'em right here, yeh... see how the sapphire petals merge with the
amber at the core, even got a bumblebee trapped inside?"

"Nice score. You ain't seen him, neither, huh?"

"That's what I'm sayin', 'Ro, ain't nobody seen him! Boss hasn't
checked in at home, won't take calls, don't show up *nowhere!* I heard
from Arkady," [further speculation, Djinn Captain of Corsairs and
Seneshal of the Golden Fleece in Brooklyn, NY, USA], "the Boss is
cooking something up for our pyro friends, but--"

[Interference from what was later determined to be Celestial Shields
overlaid on several Songs of Thunder. Who authorized a Malakim
strike-team on this watch?! Bodies recovered were thoroughly mangled
and charred; one was missing an arm What else were these two
carrying???. Storefront glass shattered in a two block radius.
Gemstones recovered; suggest return to Archangel of Flowers for
release to her Servitor at her convenience.]

-- 
-=|horsefly|=-

"It was a different time: a time of blood and guns and killings.... It
was a time when killers needed saints, for so much of God's
good work was being done."
        --SAINT OF KILLERS #4, Garth Ennis