Chapter 456: Stairway to Heaven, Elevator to Hell
Sunder is now experiencing the consequences of a tie poll in Chapter 453.
He has Getaway slung over his shoulder, but he hasn't gone hunting. He's too busy picking Getaway's brain, but not for useful information about the fake Mortilus and his mind static.
No, Sunder has absolutely lost what little sense of self-control he had and sets out to experience Getaway's almost certainly tasty memories in a way that shouldn't be at all harmful to Getaway himself (physically speaking) but which, well, mentally speaking, Getaway's almost certain to be having having some pretty twisted nightmares right now. Which Sunder can plausibly deny any knowledge of when Getaway wakes up!
Sunder begins at the beginning--the yummy survivor's guilt of the mech who thawed to life during the Corcapsia Incursion.
Send the platoons into battle, make one platoon of the mechs who are left.
Send the platoons into battle, make one platoon of the mechs who are left.
Send the...
Sunder supposes repeating that cycle often enough would induce a sense of being a "chosen one" in pretty well anyone.
And at what cost? A chosen one whose exceptionalism is proven by the slaughter of thousands.
Delicious.
So Sunder is totally distracted! An excellent time for the idiot at the other end of the hallway to realize that their current position makes them totally invisible to anyone coming down the staircase and also totally obvious to anyone coming down the hallway (for example, someone stepping out the door of the storage room that Sunder is in right now.)
What a great time to go hang out with Elegy, you think as you sprint down the hallway and push through the door to the preparation/examination room, where you just about trip over Froid's cold still frame lying on the floor. He's got a hole in his chest that doesn't go all the way through. It's the kind of hole that looks less like a projectile went in and more like something came out.
This should be super creepy, and on one level it's still a little scary, but now all you can see is
Signed, The Mummy With the Spark Extractor
so it's pretty obvious what happened here and how non-supernatural it was. Unless Elegy used supernatural mummy powers to convince Ratbat to let him have a spark extractor. Ratbat didn't even want to give the DJD a spark extractor until Tarn started sulking and uttering threats, so it's not as though you don't kinda wonder, and it's also not as though it isn't also kinda creepy that you can't see Elegy anywh...
...Oh.
The sliding door in the back of the prep room opens onto the service elevator--which makes sense, as that's how bodies would come into the morgue. It's dark in there, with even the emergency lighting non-operational.
