The Search for Malaclypse

[Dancing Bears]

Lev looked around at the crowd. Mal had withdrawn and the stunned crowd sat in silence. Slowly whispers began to ripple across the crowd. Some reacted with awe, others with confusion, and of course, as Lev noticed the TAZ folk, he could see a look of concern on their faces quite clearly.

Lev looked over at Athena along the wall with her girls, with a quick nod, he looked over at the residents of Baffin. Athena nodded in response and whispered to her girls, who quickly made their way over to the TAZ priests.

Lev made his way up to the front of the crowd. He noticed Reggie Waverly toward the front, trying to find a way into the back.

"Hey Reg, give me a minute to let these folks know where to go, then we can have a little pow-wow.

Lev went up on the stage and called the crowd to attention.

"Hey hey all you folk! Listen up real quick. Quite a show wasn't it? I image you all are a bit ready to go yea? So the Cave is open on the promenade, and I have just received word that the first round of drink or smoke is on the good gentlemen Mr. Reggie Waverly."

Lev looked over at Reg, gave a big smile and a wink. Waverly on the other hand was wearing a scowl and a red face.

"So head on over to the Cave and get hammered ya hear?"


Lev headed right over to Reggie. He didnt know the man well, and Lev really didn't like pissing people off, but Mal was one of his only true friends in Sirius, and Lev didn't take that lightly. There were few people Lev held in higher regard than Mal.


As Lev got over to Reggie, he knew the man was about to burst.


"Listen Reg, I know your pissed, I get it, and I hated doing it to ya, but ya see, there is more going on here than I understand, but I know this is what is supposed to be happening right now. I know you want to talk to Mal, but ya can't. That little shindig take a lot out of the man, he needs some time to rest up. But listen, I know he will want to talk to you at some point, why don't you head over to the Cave, go on up to the office and one I get this place shut down, I will head back over and you can yell at me all ya want."

Reggie was about to object when Lev walked off in the other direction. Shaking his head at the absurdity of it all, Reggie headed out to the bar, figuring that's where the next stop in his search was going to take him, and this idiot Shestov was going to have to be the one to get him there. What luck....

Lev started clearing the rest of the folks out, a few of the Tazzies needed a shove, but eventually the hall was cleared. Lev looked things over and then pulled a pad of paper out of his pocket and a card. Lev wrote a note addressed to "Old Man" and he placed the keycard on top of it.

Hey, Old Man,
I am going to be heading to the office in the Cave to try and put Reggie off for a bit. Here the key for my place up on level 27, should be private for you. Got to tell you though man, I didnt understand a word of that, but you sure seemed to get em stirred up.
Lev

Lev hit the lights and headed out, dreading what state the bar was going to be in when he got back.

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