#mercury01

mercukick

Coming to Sector Three is a mistake on the best of days. She had never intended to wander so close to the border between Sectors Four and Three, it was just something that had happened. And fate had brought a most unwelcome sight. There, down the road a bit talking to somebody, was Mercury. Ruby quickly ducks into an alleyway.

“Oh no,” she murmurs, sliding back a few steps and pressing herself to the wall. Is it too late? Has she been noticed? What’s Mercury doing here anyway?

...Is the rest of Cinder’s gang around?

All important questions. All questions she’s probably going to get an answer to sooner or later--and it’s most likely going to be the former, as a sudden movement comes at her from the corners of her eyes. She twists and evades the hand reaching for her, but that means she’s right out in Mercury’s view--and there’s this leering thug who may or may not be in cahoots with good ol’ Mercury, sneering at her from the dark depths of the alleyway.

Thank god she has Crescent Rose. She reaches for it instinctively, eyes darting uneasily. She does speak first.

“...Mercury.”