Jump Ship (Open RP)

Harpalos was sitting at his console comfortably, reading some bluepill newsfeed. The small electrical cable he was chewing on (he called this his "real" licorice) almost didn't have any casing at both ends. Caillech walked by in the computer room.

"Harp, I told you to stop doing that! I don't want you to hurt yourself chéri..."

"D'accord maman..."

He took his cable out of his mouth and put it on his keyboard above the top keys. Caillech went to sit next to him.

"You look troubled. Everything's fine?"

"I'm alright. But I was asking myself a question. Have you recently heard from Zane?"

"Eh maudit.... Thanks Chloe, but that's not what I want to hear. Could we please have a more detailed overview of the situation? I don't like this at all. It's been a few days already without sign of Zane. This guy is worth our efforts to free him! He's the only Merovingian operative still around that was with me when I enterred the Matrix! That's not some random guy!"

Caillech was sitting next to him, signaling him to mute his microphone. Without catching his breath, he asked Chloe to wait for a second.

"What??"

"Harp, don't make more pressure than they already have... We all know that Zane is worth our efforts, but you must accept that there are things that might be out of our control and that the only thing we can do is wait and hope."

"Ouin..."

He took a big breath and returned on communication with Chloe.

"Ok, you are our link to him. We'll follow your orders and await for further instructions. If a problem occurs, I can contact the right ressources to come help. Good luck."

Caillech made a recomforting smile at him, telling that he did the right thing. Maybe, but still, he would have prefered being in the center of action. This time, he would have to trust fate.