Cadenza: Veritas
Chapter 18: It is Raining in a Warehouse
They can probably figure it out themselves, but at least you can counter-check, just in case they got it wrong.
"It is raining in a warehouse," E says.
V continues, "...the butterflies were just an illusion, gold lies beneath the grime."
E low-fives V. "You haven't lost your game, V. Nice one."
Cess hands the letter over to E. "Looks like I underestimated Lisa. I thought she'd use a simple substitution to hide an unsophisticated message and call it a day. What on the moon could she mean by that first line? It doesn't rain here in Atebus..."
"V, do you remember the name of Carlos' wife?"
"Why are you thinking of other women, E?"
"Do you think I'll ask you if I don't think it's important?"
"What does this have to do with anything?"
Speaking of Carlos, where is he?
"When we paid Carlos a visit to check on both of you, we only found Carlos' daughter there, scared," Bella says. "She refused to talk to me at first because she thought I was one of Carlos' captors. I promised her that I'd return her father to her the next time we meet, and brought her to Dr. Syl Moeder, a friend who lives next door."
It occurs to you that Bella teleported you from that odd warehouse to Club PLURality, but [b]how did you get into that warehouse in the first place?[/b] Who inserted that SimuLife chip on you?
"After dropping Rose at Dr. Moeder's place, I saw the men who took you and Carlos carrying both of you into a van. They wore shirts with ChouChou's logo. I got their attention by telling them I'm an alien. They took me with both of you, locking me inside that warehouse. They must have inserted the chip on you while they knocked me unconscious, because I didn't notice it on you when we weren't inside the warehouse yet. Carlos also wasn't in there when I woke up."
It seems like Bella wants to say more, but she pauses for a moment and looks at her hands. A panicked expression can be seen in her face.
"It is raining in a warehouse," E says.
V continues, "...the butterflies were just an illusion, gold lies beneath the grime."
E low-fives V. "You haven't lost your game, V. Nice one."
Cess hands the letter over to E. "Looks like I underestimated Lisa. I thought she'd use a simple substitution to hide an unsophisticated message and call it a day. What on the moon could she mean by that first line? It doesn't rain here in Atebus..."
"V, do you remember the name of Carlos' wife?"
"Why are you thinking of other women, E?"
"Do you think I'll ask you if I don't think it's important?"
"What does this have to do with anything?"
Speaking of Carlos, where is he?
"When we paid Carlos a visit to check on both of you, we only found Carlos' daughter there, scared," Bella says. "She refused to talk to me at first because she thought I was one of Carlos' captors. I promised her that I'd return her father to her the next time we meet, and brought her to Dr. Syl Moeder, a friend who lives next door."
It occurs to you that Bella teleported you from that odd warehouse to Club PLURality, but [b]how did you get into that warehouse in the first place?[/b] Who inserted that SimuLife chip on you?
"After dropping Rose at Dr. Moeder's place, I saw the men who took you and Carlos carrying both of you into a van. They wore shirts with ChouChou's logo. I got their attention by telling them I'm an alien. They took me with both of you, locking me inside that warehouse. They must have inserted the chip on you while they knocked me unconscious, because I didn't notice it on you when we weren't inside the warehouse yet. Carlos also wasn't in there when I woke up."
It seems like Bella wants to say more, but she pauses for a moment and looks at her hands. A panicked expression can be seen in her face.
She then addresses the group, asking, "D-do my hands look translucent to any of you?"