That's not a problem. Kevin puts his hand out for the scorpion, and far more gently now he's prepared, transfers that animal to the pocket of his hoodie, now empty.
He stuffs his own small backpack into Xie's larger one, and slings it on his back, leaving the building while using his phone to send his location to another contact saved on it, along with the message now
On the street, he pulls his hood up, puts one hand in his pocket next to Xie, and adopts a fake walk again - not the swagger of the soldier he's been pretending to be for Zhao, but the half-slouch half-run of a man who feels very guilty indeed and desparately doesn't want to draw attention to himself in a way that definitely will draw attention to him.
He sets off in a random direction, feeling nervous and out of place in a neighbourhood where he definitely stands out, and keeps going.
He's so tense that when he sees the patrol car turn into the street ahead of him, the streetlights making the Battenburg squares stand out aggressively bright - he almost breaks into a run.
Instead he slows down and waits for the car to pull over.
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Date: 2023-10-16 10:31 am (UTC)He stuffs his own small backpack into Xie's larger one, and slings it on his back, leaving the building while using his phone to send his location to another contact saved on it, along with the message now
On the street, he pulls his hood up, puts one hand in his pocket next to Xie, and adopts a fake walk again - not the swagger of the soldier he's been pretending to be for Zhao, but the half-slouch half-run of a man who feels very guilty indeed and desparately doesn't want to draw attention to himself in a way that definitely will draw attention to him.
He sets off in a random direction, feeling nervous and out of place in a neighbourhood where he definitely stands out, and keeps going.
He's so tense that when he sees the patrol car turn into the street ahead of him, the streetlights making the Battenburg squares stand out aggressively bright - he almost breaks into a run.
Instead he slows down and waits for the car to pull over.