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The Crystal Rule	By : QueenDraggyofSwords Category: Final Fantasy Games > Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Views: 956 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter Forty-Nine

The small sailing boat Keiss had borrowed from the Guild was indeed fast, yet it still took him until the evening to reach the islands of Kilanda.
The main island of the chain was an active volcano. Eruptions weren't frequent, but they weren't uncommon either. All around the center island, smaller ones had grown up from the volcanic run off and quakes that followed the larger eruptions. Even now, the ocean and the ground rumbled from the sounds of magma coursing through the crust of the ocean floor and ash rained down steadily through the air.
And then there was the heat.
The Selkie had lowered his sail as he began his final approach to the islands. The red head let out a sigh and whipped the sweat from the sides of his face.
"It's a good thing you didn't come, Lotta. You'd have been so upset over this air." The Guild Master's son pulled up a paddle from the storage under the boat's seats and used it to make his way closer to the base.
The Lilty Military was not so crazy that the base was set up on the main island, but rather one of the ones along the outer rim of the chain. Formed from years of magma bubbling up from the ocean floor and lava flowing from the main island it was considerable in size. Big enough to fit a compound in which the military tested weapons frequently.
Thankfully, with the night sky and the raining ash it was difficult to see out over the water. Keiss just had to make sure he avoided the spot lights on the edge of the base's walls and towers as he paddled up to the island. Once close enough he crawled out of the boat and waded up to the shore guiding it with a rope line. He tied it down among a few rocks that were black with ash and soot. He wasn't sure if he was going to come back for it or not. He wanted his escape to be fast, and the little sailing vessel would not be able to outrun the speed boats of the Military.
"I guess this will be where you stay." He pat the hull of the ship. Spinosa's men could find it later; clear evidence the Guild was behind the theft, as if his costume wasn't enough. Keiss pulled out his supplies, just a simple bag to store the goods he was taking in, the blueprints, and his camera. He tucked the camera into the flaps of his leg coverings and double checked his weapons. The Guild Master's son checked a side pocket on the bag to make sure he'd still had a calling card to leave behind. A bit of a tease, but he had to get some amusement out of this.
The Selkie turned his gaze up to the base. He still had half a mile of uneven barren ground and spot lights to avoid before he would be up to the walls of the compound. From down here he could see the airship port of the base; its runway extended out over the water allowing ships to land and take off without worry of hitting the building. He knew from the blue print, and from his own fly over that on the opposite end of where he was standing the base also had a wall that descended down into the water. It had a large iron gate that the Lilties opened and closed as needed to let seafaring ships into the compound.
There would more than likely be a speed boat docked at the water he could use to get away.
Keiss nodded to himself and started up the rocky terrain. Again he thanked the crystal that it was a dark night. The bright colors of his bandana and clothing would have given him away in a second had he tried to sneak in during the daylight hours. It took him about twenty minutes to maneuver his way up to the walls of the base. He hugged the outer stone wall as he made his way over to the pillars that supported the air ship runway. He knew that there was a storage room at the edge of it just before the main building.
Provided the blueprints had been correct, there would be an airshaft that connected that two. He could use that to enter the main building and make his way up to the assembly room for the computers. From there he planned to get the part of the control panel Clockwork desired, but he still had his own ideas of what else he was going to take from this base. He had no intention of returning without knowing what was the connection between the weapons project and the medical center at Rebena Te Ra.
Once Keiss reached the pillars he started to climb one, making his way up to the top of the flight deck just behind the storage building. As he had hoped, there weren't that many guards about. He had a clear shot to the buildings back door.
The red head pulled himself up and ran, keeping his body low to the ground, until he reached the wall of the storage building. He pressed his back to the door and reached up to being tinkering with the locks tumblers.
As he was working he could hear a few guards marching about the runway. They were shouting commands, preparing for an incoming airship. The fact that they were distracted made getting in easy for him, but it also worried him. Who was coming out here in the middle of the night?
In the distance he could hear the sounds of an airship making its final approach toward the base. Just as the lock gave way, the ships lights flooded the runway. Keiss ducked inside and closed the door quickly. The sound of the ship landing was more than enough to cover the sound of the door slamming.
He quickly relocked it and turned around to observe the room he was in.
Before him were several large crates that came up to about the height of a man, they were lined up and stacked in the room. Keiss reached into the leg coverings of his disguise where he had Nadeen sew a pocket for his camera and started taking pictures. He walked around the crates trying to find their labels and took shots of each one.
"…Section B, Row 2… Defensive?" He snapped a picture and made his way to the next set of crates. "Section A, Row 1… Offensive Elemental?" He took another picture. "What do these labels even mean?" Keiss tucked his camera back into his pocket and ran his hands along the wooden panels of the crates. He started walking around them trying to find a way to peek inside.
He finally resolved he was going to need a crowbar or some sort of tool to do so when he heard the lock on the other side of the room click. The Selkie looked around frantically; he had no intentions of being seen this early. The only adequate place to hide was on top of the crates, and so Keiss jumped up, taking hold of one of the edges and climbed up as quickly as he could.
"-In here, are where the last pieces are being stored." The red head pulled himself up to the top of a stack of crates just as he heard voices entering the room. "The device itself will be finished tomorrow morning, now that all the components for its operation have arrived. Afterwards we will begin instillation immediately." The Guild Master's son edged toward the ends of the crates to take a peak. He recognized the voice speaking as Spinosa's. He had to know who he was talking to.
"And what exactly is this last component?" A female voice spoke up.
"Ah, my dear Colonel, I am afraid you will have to wait for the unveiling for that."
Keiss watched as Regal made his way around the corner of one of the rows of wooden boxes, he was followed by Spinosa and another military officer he'd not seen before. She walked next to the plum haired Lilty, slightly shorter than him by an inch or two. Most of her hair was shoulder length, and pink in color with eyes that matched. There was a longer section of her hair, pulled back into a braid of cascading cherry blossoms that was tossed over her shoulder. She walked with arms crossed and slight frown to her expression. Keiss noted the woman must be crazy, because despite the terrible heat, he could see the top of a turtle neck sticking out of her uniform, completely concealing her neck.
"Wait?" She didn't seem amused. "You've been making everyone wait on this project, Spinosa. You've had Piper keep this weapons system under wraps since you started it. What is it?"
"Colonel Du-Blanc, I promise you, that when I unveil it to the High Commander, you will be there to see it. And you will be just as impressed as he is." The three Lilties stopped walking and stood next to a row of crates across from Keiss' hiding place. "All you need to worry about are your repairs."
"The repairs on the ship are done, Spinosa." She didn't uncross her arms. "That is why I flew out here. I just left Fitzroy in Bridge Town; he's all set to install the new engine, the navigational systems, and the machinery. All that's needed are your weapons. You do realize that the High Commander plans to re-present this project to the King in a matter of months. He wants it operational. Fully tested. No flaws."
"And it will be flawless, Colonel."
"Will it?" The woman looked about the room, "Because I've been hearing rumors about you having Crystal Bearer trouble. Not to mention problems with a Selkie. We've all been hearing those rumors about you and Regal, here and your continued hurdles. If you ask me it sounds like you've bitten off more than you can chew."
"No one did ask you, Sherry." Regal spoke up. He was glaring at the woman.
"Regal, when you wear a uniform again, you can address me by my first name," she uncrossed her arms, "Until then, don't." The Colonel turned her attention to the crate next to her now.
"So what all is this weapon?" She put her hands on a crate and started to pry at it. Spinosa seized her wrist and pulled her hand back.
"I told you, Sherry, you will see it when it's done. Just know that it will please the High Commander. Enough that no matter what rumors he's heard he will be ecstatic with what it all entails."
"Indeed," Regal added, "It will not only take care of a blight upon this kingdom, but give the Lilty an advantage that they have been missing for centuries."
The pink haired Lilty pulled her hand back and scowled at the two men. "Just make sure there are no more delays, Spinosa. I will be heading back to Alfitaria to put my report in High Commander Jegran's hands personally. You had better live up to your claims."
"Not only will I live up to them, Colonel, but there is no doubt in my mind that the Commander will name me his successor on the spot for the success of this project."
The woman rubbed her wrist, "You? What high goals you've set for yourself. Much like your Selkie?"
"…He will not be with us from this point out." Spinosa turned his back to her, "Now then, let's move on. Did you bring my package from Oides?"
"Of course. I had my men take it to your office. Though I suppose I can't know what's so secretive about that package either?"
Keiss watched as the Lilty trio left the store room. They turned off the lights as they left, leaving the Selkie hidden in the darkness. He slowly pushed up from his position and shook his head. "Repairs…Navigation and weapons?" He looked down at the crates, "Just what are they preparing for? Some sort of war?" Keiss continued to look down; subconsciously he hadn't realized he was doing so because his eyes were drawn to a light coming from under him.
It wasn't until it clicked in his mind that the room still held light that he realized it was coming from the crate he was on. It was coming from all the crates actually. From in between the cracks of the wooden panels a light was shining through.
A very dull, pale blue light.
The red head leaned down and tried to see what was inside. But the only thing he could make out was liquid. Gallons of crystal fluid; its light coming from the shards mixed into it. The crates seemed to be full of it. He turned his head trying to see if there was anything else to the inside of the crates. But he could barely make out anything. Just more light, slightly bending here and there around the edges of glass containers. Though sometimes in the glass he thought he could see reflections; shadows of something else floating in the fluid.
He finally pulled his face back and shook his head. Something told him for now to leave it. Whatever it was, he felt that if he took the time to find out he'd never make it to his target in time.
And so Keiss turned his gaze toward the walls of the storage room. He scanned them looking for the entrance to the ventilation shaft and slowly made his way across the tops of the crates to it. He'd have to use it to crawl halfway through the base to get to his target.
As he pulled the vent off, he looked back at the crates in the room, still curious.
"If Layle was here, he'd demand I open one up…" The red head turned his attention back toward the metal shaft before him and crawled inside.
It was probably for the best, he didn't think about it right now.

Keiss crawled his way through the vents of the Kilanda compound slowly making his way through the main building and up to its second floor. Occasionally he stopped his movement when he heard solider marching about under him, or to peak through a vent opening into the hallways or rooms below.
He caught a glimpse of Regal in one of the offices reading over the report of the attack Clockwork had carried out earlier that day. He noted the rose haired Lilty seemed to keep reading over the same few paragraphs again and again and was taking notes on what the men had said they observed.
He didn't need to swipe that report, though. He was there for Clockwork's mayhem. He had no interest in rereading it.
The next room he found himself glancing into was an unoccupied office. It wasn't far from his destination. Keiss half considered getting out here and making his way to the room when the door opened. Lieutenant Spinosa walked in carrying a package in his hands.
The Selkie held his breath as the man turned on the lights and took a seat at the desk. He could kick the grate off the wall right now and jump into the room to give the plum haired Lilty a piece of his mind. But he had a mission to carry out. If Layle wasn't waiting for him, he'd have done it.
He watched as Spinosa tore open the package's covering to reveal a small box. The man opened it and studied its contents. Keiss wondered why whatever it was couldn't be sent by Mail Moogle.
"Very soon." Spinosa muttered to himself as he reached into the box and pulled a long, thin cylinder. Keiss took note it reminded him of a medical pen. It had a button on one end to mash and push out the needle on the other side. The Selkie turned his head trying to read the label that wrapped around it, completely sealing its contents from view.
Was the Lieutenant sick? He had never known that.
He watched as the man seemed to turn the pen over in his hands debating what to do with it. He finally resolved to put it down when a knock came to his door.
"Yes, what is it?"
"A Mail Moogle just arrived from Bridge Town, Lieutenant. It's urgent from Professor Piper…" The Lilty stood and made his way around the desk and out the door. Keiss looked back at the box. He had shut it.
He could go down and see just what medicine Oides had sent the man. But then again Spinosa could come back at any second. He was so close to what he needed.
"…I'll take if he's still gone on my way out…" Keiss continued forward. It was another five rooms before he reached his destination.

The room that the weapons control had been assembled in was three times as large as the offices he'd been crawling past. The control was divided up into three main panels. They were meant to be installed into wall, and used for coordinating attacks. Soldiers were to sit at them and go over the readouts, to observe the functions of the weapon, its feedback, its power. It was a large monitoring system really.
The Selkie loosened the grate separating him from the room and jumped down.
He walked over to each of the panels reading over the instructions. One station was to help coordinate attacks. The directions went over the commands and input for mixing weapons firepower resulting in 'optimum range of damage'. Another set of instructions went over how to understand the readouts, to avoid overheating, pressure build up and back fire. The last panel he inspected was the one he needed. It was the main system control. Whatever Spinosa was planning to hook these machines up to, this device would allow them to operate. It was going to be their brain.
Keiss ran his hands along the computer and its buttons thinking back to the conversation he heard earlier. "Repairs, navigating, and weapons control… It has to be for an airship." He looked up at the wire work hanging over the side of the machine. "But where is the ship? That woman said it was repaired… It must be on the mainland."
Keiss ran his hands along the tops of the buttons before crouching down to open the sides of the system controls. He began to pull and snip at the wire work, rearranging it and severing its connections. He eventually freed the main hard drives of the computer and pulled them out. He stuffed them into his bag and then proceeded to do the same for each part.
"There must be more of these…" Keiss thought out loud as he closed up the last panel. "There's no way three is enough or one ship. But where are the others? Already installed-"
"I said, let me pass!" The Selkie held his breath as he heard a woman speaking angrily out in the hall. It was that Lilty woman from earlier. "Don't you refuse me. I am your commanding officer. Move aside!"
Keiss ducked down to the side of one of the panels as the door opened and a nervous guard stepped aside. The woman walked in, fist clenched at her side. She kept her head up high until the door shut. As soon as it was closed she let out a sigh and crept forward. The red head watched her as she started studying the paper work on the panels.
"Not here either… What does it do?" She got down on her hands and knees and pried open the sides to get a look at the wires. Keiss felt his heart race. She'd notice they'd be tampered with and alert the guards. He wasn't done searching yet. The Selkie slowly stood up as she stuck her head into the machine. He'd have to knock her out. Keiss crept up behind the Lilty woman, he folded his hands together and raised them high ready to strike her across the face as she pulled back.
"What the heck," he heard her mutter. "These ones are missing parts… They're not complete like the rest. Spinosa that lying good for nothing!" Just as the woman pulled back she took note of the shadow standing over her. The Lilty officer gasped and turned her head. Keiss swung his fists down ready to knock her across the jaw but the pink haired Lilty raised her hands and released a flash of light from them.
Keiss found himself knocked back by a small thunder spell. His back collided with one of the other panels and he fell to the ground. He could feel his muscles tightening up into a state of paralysis and cursed. That wasn't supposed to happen.
"A Selkie!" She stood up ready to draw her weapon, a sword she kept at her side. Keiss glared up at her mind racing on how best to get out of this situation. He couldn't be caught. He refused to fail. The red head pushed himself up slowly, even as the Lilty was pulling out her pistol. She raised it to him, but didn't fire. "…You're the one that messed with these machines?"
Keiss didn't answer her. He had one hand behind his back, already working a knife loose form his belt. He wasn't sure how steady he could throw it so he was going to have to take the chance to rush her. Hopefully she'd be caught off guard long enough that he could stop her before she fired off another spell. How was he to know that she was a Crystal Bearer?
"You're messing up Spinosa's project… For whom? The Guild? Or someone else?" He still didn't answer her. He was ready to charge when she lowered her weapon. "If you're going to take it apart. You missed two rooms down the hall."
"…W-what?"
The pink haired Lilty stared at him, "Go on. Down the hall. There are two more rooms. Go."
"…" Keiss drew out his blade, he didn't trust her. She scoffed at his repose.
"Your body is stiff, isn't it? I know how to cast a good thunder spell." She looked about the room and then her eyes fell on the open ventilation shaft. "Go on, if I stay here, I can distract Spinosa when that guard of his undoubtedly returns with him."
"…But, why?" He continued to keep his weapon drawn on her. "Why would you let me do that?"
"Let's set one thing straight, Selkie." She smiled at him, "I don't care why you're really here. All I care about is my competition. When I have to line up before the High Commander in a few months, I want him to remember that I didn't screw up on my part." She tucked her sword back into its sheath. "And the more he remembers that Spinosa did, the better."
"…" The Guild Master's son snorted. "You Lilties are all alike. Willing throw whomever you can under the bus just to get your way."
"Make no mistake about it, Selkie." She smiled. "My crystal promised me prosperity. But it's not something that's handed out for free." She took a step back and jerked her head toward the vent. "Go."
Keiss kept his eyes on her as she climbed up and out of the room. The Colonel watched him scale up and out of sight. She called to him at the last minute.
"Don't get caught!"
He shook his head and kept moving. He still didn't fully trust her, but she had let him go. And tipped him off on where to go next. Though he still wondered why?

By the time Keiss stole the parts from the final room he had been in the base for over an hour. His disguise was smudged with dust and dirt from the vent shafts, but it was worth it. He had stolen every piece of the machine the Guild had been charged with taking. And all without getting caught, for the most part.
"Now, for the finishing touch." The Selkie reached into the side pocket of his bag and pulled out the calling card he brought with him. Just in case the ship and the eyewitness wasn't enough. The red head placed a striped apple on top of the console and smirked. "Time to go cause a scene."
The red head climbed back through the shaft and slowly made his way up to the roof. He had planned on back tracking, but now that someone knew he was here, he didn't want to risk it. He still wasn't sure if he could trust her.
As he was passing through rooms he could hear Spinosa, Regal, and Sherry arguing about her being in the equipment rooms. It sounded like the Colonel's ability to keep the two men preoccupied had run out. He'd gotten finished not a moment too soon.
Just as he reached the top floor of the building, an alarm was sounded. The noise echoed in the metal shaft, bouncing off the walls and into his head. Keiss covered his ears and grit his teeth. He had to keep going. The noise continued to ring out as he struggled through the air ducts of the building, the ringing in his head was so intense it was throwing off his other sense. He found himself stumbling to crawl as he groped his way up to the roof.
Of course it didn't help that half of his muscles still felt incredibly stiff from the Lilty officer's attack earlier.
When he reached the roof exit for the air duct the former Guild Member kicked at the covering until it fell off. The vent fell with a loud clang, alerting any nearby guards on the roof top that someone was sneaking about. Keiss crawled out of the vents and dusted himself off just as two soldiers came running up.
"Halt there!" One of them shouted and pointed at Keiss. The Selkie looked around pretending to be surprised they were talking to him before gesturing towards himself.
"Who? Me?" Even out here he could still hear the sounds of the alarm going off. "You do mean me don't you?"
"Put your hands up, Selkie! Up high where we can see them!"
"…Alright." Keiss put his hands up smirking in his usual know-it-all way. "Like this right?" One of the guards started to approach him and he spoke up again. "Alright, time to put them down." The red head fell backward to do a handstand just as the Lilty soldier came within reach of him. He let his feet kick the man in the chin as he jumped back. His partner started shouting for him to stop and shouting for back up.
Keiss continued to flip head over heels until he reached the edge of the roof top. A few more guards were rushing his way now ordering for him to stop. The red head shook his head at them. "Sorry, I'd love to stick around, but I have a date I have to go pick up." He waited until the soldiers were close before taking a step back and letting himself drop off the roof.
The men shouted as Keiss fell.
The Selkie held out his hands and grabbed onto the ledge of a second floor window. His feet swung down and connected with the wall of the building. Without hesitating he started to shimmy his way across the side of the building. He could still feel a bit or paralysis tingling in his legs, but it wasn't enough to stop him. The men on the roof were still shouting orders, some of them saying to go down and grab him at the windows, other's ordering to start shooting him now.
He wasn't really looking to stick around for the gunfire.
As soon as the first shot went off Keiss reached over to the next window he crossed and pushed it open. The Selkie crawled inside as more men opened fired on the spot he was just hanging from. He ran through the room he'd just entered and slammed open the door to the hall. It was empty, but he could hear men rushing toward him from around the corner. The thief turned and started to run the opposite way to make his way to a room with a window.
He started swinging open doors as he ran, startling a few soldiers and causing them to get up and chase him around the floor. Keiss opened room after room as he ran slowly adding to the mob dashing after him. Finally he ended up at the stairwell, swinging open its door to find Regal standing there shocked.
"A Selkie!"
"An onion!" The red head exclaimed back at him with a smirk. The rose headed man's face twisted with anger. He raised his fist to punch Keiss and the red head fell back. He reached up and grabbed Regal's arm and flipped him over his shoulder, through the doorway, and into the oncoming soldiers that were following him. Keiss ran through the door locking it behind himself before racing down the stairs.
On the way he encountered the pink haired officer again. She fell back hitting the wall as he sped by her. She really was just interested in making life difficult for Spinosa, wasn't she? Lilties were an odd tribe, he thought as he burst through the first floor door. So willing to exploit each other to get ahead, or wipe each other out in the name of 'good'. Even if they ruled the world, they couldn't stop fighting. So they fought with each other.
The first floor was possibly teaming with more guards than the last. Two jumped at him trying to grab him, and the Selkie jumped up. He ran along the side of the wall and kicked off of it to land behind the two as they crashed into the spot where he used to be.
He pulled out two of his knives and tossed them at the next couple of guards that came his way. As the men went down, Keiss reached down and pulled the handgun form the hands of one of them. He didn't stop moving as he jumped over the man and fired at a window at the end of the hall.
The Selkie jumped through the broken glass and rolled head over heels as he hit the pavement. From behind he could hear Regal shouting at the men to get up and stop Keiss.
Outside the rest of the men were scrambling to catch him.
Keiss pushed up off the ground and ran for the small dock at the water's edge. As he had anticipated, there were a few boats with small crystal engines attached. Perfect for a quick getaway. He jumped into one of the boats and cut the line holding it to the dock with his knife. Just as it snapped a soldier jumped into the boat with him and grabbed him in a bear hug from behind. Keiss struggled with the large Lilty trying to shake him loose.
Another approached and tried to grab the red head's legs. The thief swiftly raised his foot and kicked the man back and overboard. The force of the blow caused the other Lilty to stumble backward. Keiss swung his legs upward again, tilting them back further until the guard had to let go to keep his balance. He dropped Keiss, who landed in a crouching position. The Selkie swung his foot around and hit the man hard in his legs. The unbalanced Lilty fell back over the other side of the boat.
By the time the two guards were up to the water's surface, Keiss had started the engine and was pulling back from the dock as quickly as possible.
Regal shouted to his men to open fire at the boat and the Selkie. He called for the men on the seawall to shut the gate.
Keiss turned the boat quickly and started to make a break for the now shutting gate. However as he drew close the men on the wall let loose a torrent of bullets keeping him back. There was no way he was going to get through all of that without getting hit. He started to scan the wall for another possible exit, but there was none. By now a few of the guards were getting into the other boats to chase him down.
He turned the boat again and tried to make another pass at the gate only to encounter the same problem. And now he was racing head first at his oncoming pursuers.
He was starting to think this was a bad idea, when just beyond the boats he spotted Regal running up a set of stairs shouting to the men on the wall to keep firing.
Keiss turned up the engine to its top speed and raced forward. The soldiers opened fire as he came at them, the red head ducked down, but kept his hand on the steering wheel to keep the boat moving forward. As soon as he was clear of the guards he stood back up and jerked the wheel to the side, to turn it toward the stairs.
Regal looked back as he reached the top of the wall and screamed at what he saw. The Selkie was charging the boat right at the stairwell. At the last second he turned it at an angel to keep the nose from crashing into the wall as it struck the railing and jumped the ledge. The boat clamored and scraped the side of the stone wall; its propeller clanged and sparked against the steps. But it kept moving. It kept moving right up the stairs toward the rose haired Lilty.
He shouted at the guards to fire. To take the intruder out as he scrambled out of the way.
Keiss gripped the wheel of the little boat doing his best to hold it steady and to keep himself from being flung over the railing the boat was bending and tearing out of place as it bumped up the stairs. Before him the hull of the little ship was filling with bullet holes and around him shots ricocheted.
The boat reached the stop of the stairs and shot upward, it turned slightly on its side, unstable from the rocky and unnatural ride up the stairs. The soldier's continued to shoot at him and at the bottom of the boat as they scrambled to avoid being hit. Regal was lying on the ground still shouting orders as the boat sailed over head, over his men and over the wall.
When the shadow passed he stood up and rushed to the edge to see the boat dropping like rock towards the water. There was a huge splash and the entire boat seemed to sink down for a moment, surly it was going to go under.
Even Keiss thought it was, but the tiny vessel still had enough life and momentum in it to keep pushing forward. The boat slowly bobbed its way up out of the water and Keiss let out a cheer. Regal grabbed a gun from one of his guards and took aim at the Selkie that was mocking him with a wave of farewell.
He fired one shot.
Keiss didn't cry out, but he stopped waving. His arm curled down and in towards his body. He looked down to see blood was quickly pouring out from a hole just below his wrist. He'd been shot. He clenched his fist and pulled his hand against his chest as he raced forward. Behind him Regal smirked and ordered men to open the gate and follow the boat.
Surly with all the bullet holes and a wounded driver it wouldn't get far.
He would make sure of that.
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