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[reneger]

can you do me a favor

[torchbearer]

Weird ask. What is it?

[torchbearer]

[ kyle presses a quicksilver kiss to his cheek. ]

Be back soon.

[ time to suit up and do space stuff! he hadn't realized how much he missed it. ]

[torchbearer]

Yeah. Of course.

[reneger]

if tim points out a defunct satellite, can you go up there and nab it for us

[torchbearer]

Easy enough.

What do you want with a satellite?

[reneger]

easier to figure out what's up with the meteors if we have eyes in the sky
and anything else that might be easier to get visibility of from space

[torchbearer]

All right.

Let me know which one and I'll bring it over.

[reneger]

Don't get hit with a space rock.

( but he's waving kyle off easily enough. he's capable, there's no need for jason to fret. )

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[reneger]

( sometime during this mess - )

do you know where b is?

[torchbearer]

No, don't think so. Why?

[reneger]

he jumped into a shadow and hasn't come back out

[torchbearer]

How long?

[reneger]

fifteen minutes ago

[torchbearer]

I don't know how shadow powers work. But you know Batman. He doesn't exactly work on anyone's schedule.

[reneger]

we have the same power set
i don't know what happens when someone disappears into them
and he wouldn't intentionally fuck off like that

[torchbearer]

[ huh. ]

No, he wouldn't have.

Okay. How do we get him out?

[reneger]

might have to go in after him

[torchbearer]

And then what? You could both be stuck there.

[reneger]

i don't know
but i'm not going to leave him in there alone

the guy who fell in with him said he killed b

[torchbearer]

I'm not saying don't go.

[ he can't say that. even if he'd want to. the fear settles in him and kyle does his best to breathe it out. ]

Can we attach a rope or something? Like a bungee?

[reneger]

sure
i'll try whatever

do me a favor?
can you grab the backpack under the floorboards in the hall closet and the belt on the back of the door and bring them to me in excelsior

[torchbearer]

I'll bring it right over.

[reneger]

thanks

( jason sends over an approximate address: a dark alleyway in excelsior. he's - leaning up against the wall of one of the nearby buildings, intentionally planted within a shadow that's flickering around the edges. his bike's parked a few feet away, and there's blood splattered on the pavement. there had been a fight, but the assholes involved on the other side are long gone. )

[torchbearer]

[ kyle lands nearby, the bag slung over his shoulder. he notes the blood but he doesn't comment on it. ]

Is this where it happened?