Rough Ride

Being blown up is alarming. Like one minute you are standing around waiting for an explanation of what horrible realm of awful you were just in (as most people are want to do), and the next you are plummeting twenty stories in a firey building possibly to your doom. I believe I have remarked in the past about being blown up, but every time its a unique and fun experience of terrifying and "WHY GODS WHY!?" Being blown up and falling through a crumbling broken building? Completely unique for me, this is so far the only time this has ever happened to me, and it was horrible. Like I thought I was dead, this one time I've actually sort of prayed to whatever dark power that keeps me going to make sure I lived, if only so I could kill the absolute shit out of Morley.

It actually worked! Well that and the fact that falling through a blown up building lets you break your fall with your face as you descend the floors to the bottom. I guess "lived" here is a matter of opinion. Survived certainly, but if this was living check me out for living in the future. I did still of course have the issue of being trapped in a building that was falling down around me, several broken bones, and the fact I was partially on gods damned fire!

Hanlon was no where to be seen of course, though I did see the broken bodies of his former guards all over. I couldn't tell how the building had been exploded, but considering it seemed to come from below I figured I was currently face down in where the bombs had been. Which could have been even worse for me based on a bomb not going off, or you know the building up above coming falling down on me.

In pain, in the dark and burning and unable to move very fast I hobble crawled out of the basement and away from the building. Police and fire services had arrived at the site by the time I got out, my emergence scared the crap out of both groups (I was the only survivor aside from Hanlon, but he wasn't in the building). Thank the gods the fire group brought medical assistance, unfortunately the medical outfit was run by freaking Morley, because of course it was this was his real plan after all! I mean it sort of was, I dunno I never got to ask him exactly how he planned on attacking us and blowing up a completely unrelated building we got into. Something else to add to the list of things to ask Morley before I totally kill him.