Livin' it up at the Hotel Realm-afornia....

[Lionsheart Steel]

This week had been eventful to say the least....

He'd finally flipped out whilst on the run. Rina had been such a massive part of his new life that when he chose to run the loss of her stabilising influence, the way She could keep his feet firmly on the ground, led to more and more ridiculous errors being made...
These mistakes only served to compound the massive one he'd made by running in the first place. He'd cursed himself to be alone at the point when he really needed her the most. His intellect never had been his strong-point, he was as we say: A tool to do a job...the job he had chosen was helping to take down masquerade offenders.
Having had much time to think about it, he'd become increasingly convinced that he had indeed been the victim of an attempted set up...and the more he pondered, the more he brought the lack of any movement by the fifth to the forefront of his mind.
Had this been an underhanded way to discredit Ty, or just one of their fold to cast doubt on the factions or members at least integrity yet again?

Now.Present moment in time.

The pain was gone...the throbbing searing pain that accompanied the leaden slug as it bore into his brain...all gone.
Lions had seen the floor galloping towards him like an unbridled, panicked horse..and then fade to black.
All the noise...the shouting, screaming and gunshots...had ceased and in it's place a calming yet unearthly silence.
The warmth of his wife's Docere hideout replaced with a bone-numbing, icy coldness. He didn't have to think hard to work out where he was.
Nor did he have to dig to deep to recall why he'd been given the all expenses paid Realm vacation. Remorse once again flooded through his body and once again he found himself racked with shame over his own stupidity.

The heated exchange that occurred in this moment before his ticket had been punched had etched themselves indelibly into his concious memory...
This wasn't going to be an easy stay, once again he found himself in this other-worldly prison and once again he was fairly sure he wouldn't be visited!
His first visit was always going to easier, afterall, he didn't -know- he was coming, and the fact that he had no idea what to expect made it something of an adventure.
But He -had known- he was coming here this time...had time for the dread to set in..and also, there was the fact that he'd royally pissed off probably the only person that cared about him enough to undertake the fadewalk journey to maybe try and lift his spirits. Shaking himself to his senses he made to stand up leaving the cold, stone floor in a bid to try and 'normalise' the situation a little...Those incorporeal wisps that were supposed to represent hands seeming to sink slightly below the minerals surface.
He gave an involuntary shudder before mentally kicking himself...Now was not the time to let what was left of his mind begin to wander off in tangients....

Now...where the **** was that exit...there was no time to loose...'Ree needed to know how much he loved her...even if her only reply was another ticket to punch.....

[Lionsheart Steel]

It's good news week...

It had been one of those make or break moments at Prestige.
The market place was chock full of dealers all offering amazing deals to the fleet purchaser... Lions had been no exception, he'd worked damn hard on this bid and without a successful sale then the days of Prestige were numbered. So he'd upped the ante so to speak and pulled out all the stops... even using a little of that precious alluristic magic to get the job done. The company credit card had taken a rare old bashing as first the fleet manager, then the finance manager and then eventually the company's MD had been wined and dined.
Oh sure, they'd chosen the vehicles well in advance of approaching anyone about supplying the new fleet. To say they knew exactly what they wanted was an understatement... the hard sell wasn't in the convincing the buyer that the vehicle was right for them... No... this time all the work went into making sure that the only real contender for supplying those vehicles was Prestige. A lot rested on breaking into the fleet supply market and this was the company's first serious foray and it had come not a moment too soon, Prestige was selling top end autos at a time when it seemed Harper Rock was all about economising, although the repairs and spare parts were making strong money, the showroom was haemorrhaging funds at record rates.
Some delicate negotiations and more than the odd concession later however came the news he'd been longing to hear. The sale was made... the job was theirs! The first delivery of which would net the company a cool $250,000 followed by 7 more deliveries to be placed and fulfilled before the end of May. Every vehicle in the fleet from the Utility pick-up to the MD's shiny new Bentley... Steel was euphoric, the deposit by way of the MD's cheque already on it's way to the bank with Katrina the head of sales. Instructions had been given to procure the first vehicles and Eleanore and Katrina had been tasked with handling the account from herein....
It was already pretty dark as Lions exited the building, he'd changed into biker leathers and from the depths of the workshop under a cover the chopper had been brought out. It's metallic green pearlescent paint (Which flipped through blue to a vivid purple!), detailed to look like reptilian scales, shone under the glow of the dealerships workshop outside light, climbing aboard he reached for the bars and as his thumb pressed the starter the beast rumbled unevenly into life. Straight- thru exhausts breathed small fires as the throttle was blipped, the darkness only serving to accentuate the colours of the flames and the accompanying roar made one think that the name Dragor really was fitting! Rina had bought him this as a present... but he'd named it himself after having it repainted by a local paint genius!

Once again in the here and now...

It was easy to loose track of time in the Realm... "There's no way to tell if it's night or day and even if I had a watch it'd just fall of my wrist." Without any real regimen to the day Lions had found that random and sometimes stupid thoughts found their way into his head and because of the intense quiet here, he found that even his thoughts seemed loud... he wondered if anyone were around could they hear them? Maybe... Realising he's let his mind wander again he gave himself a virtual shake. "C'mon Lions pull yourself together ...Now's not the time to be day-dreaming... I've an exit to find!"
During the preceeding hours(?) he'd walked on his see-through legs until there was no walk left in him, then he'd lambasted himself and got up and walked some more. He wondered how long he'd been here and would Rina forget him if he couldn't find an exit. Even if She didn't forget him... would She ever forgive him? More walking and still no exit....