Hidden Mall 42: Rescued

[aldersprig]

The walkway dropped, stopped, and shifted.  Abby grabbed tightly to both sides of the walkway and started moving as quickly as her rocky footing would allow.  "Hurry," she gasped. "¡Arriba, Arriba! ¡Ándale, Ándale!"

That was not going to help, but it was all she could think of at the moment.  She pitched herself off the walkway and onto another square, this one seeming much sturdier.  As soon as she landed, she scrambled to get out of the way for her friends and hauled herself to her feet.

Liv was off the falling bridge; Liv was almost there.  She lept, turned, and grabbed Vic, catching the last girl as she leapt from the dropping walkway.

"We."  Abby panted. "Need."

"-to get out of here," Liv finished.  "Hey, we found the map."

read on…

Comments

[kelkyag]

<twitch>

[aldersprig]

Oh no what?

[kelkyag]

What part of this mall isn't twitch-inducing? (Mostly this one in particular, but the mall meta-complex in general ...)

But especially hung up abandoned half-starved Vic. Who is still snarky.

[aldersprig]

Fair, she’s pretty twitchy. But yeah, this mall complex isssssss bad.

[sauergeek]

I take back everything I said about lack of spikes. There's a giant shrike around somewhere. (Are we sure this isn't Science! gone horribly wrong, from the victim's point of view? I can see one of them coming up with a giant shrike.)

Hung by her shoulders, on hooks. There's not much safe room in a shoulder: a lot of nerves and blood vessels go through there. Assuming that taking Vic-hung off the hooks isn't going to make her bleed to death, she'll likely have some long-term damage.

I can only hope that Vic-French has some idea of what's going on. Nobody's really explained to her what the plan is, or even if there is one.

If this Vic was following up-and-left, something's horribly wrong. I hope she can at least tell what happened (as opposed to "something whacked me from behind, and when I woke up, I was on these hooks").

I gotta wonder about the suicidality of the Abbies. Ours doesn't seem to be that suicidal? But that may well be what's keeping her around where all the other Abbies didn't make it.