#rivervale_lodge

Then she remembers...back to basics...evidence. She has her phone! She tries to get a sturdy position, then takes out her phone and turns on the camera to record video of what's going on. Fair's fair...you try to film me, I film you....

And the plan works...

as the boy is drugged... his eyes going visibly large

And his face still

"You get the dose right so it won't hurt em right?" The bruiser says.

"Relax, brother... it just makes him more amendable to our truths"

Flopsy waits nervously on the otherside of the fence

"Whatever it is it works..." The bruiser gets shushed.

And the man in the suit begins to speak to the boy "I will serve the church in all things"

"I will serve the church in all things..." The boy mumbles

A chill threatens to wave out watching this indoctrination...

Sylvi bites her lip. If she can just hold on a little more....what she already has will help shut this down, but....

She holds on... yes.. she can hold on

"and I will obey my elders..."

"will obey my elders"

They've made him drink it before, she reminds herself. He'll...get better. There's still time to save him after this. But I need the evidence....

for a moment she wonders what's she's doing here. She's a cheer leader, not a superhero... she's not even a reporter. Who's going to believe her anyway? she's a girl.. just a girl. An image of her father and her... in a rally in DC, Women, of all ages rising up and being seen and heard. JUST? No... no such thing. Her dad told her that. Her Mom lives it!

She blinks. I...I can do right. I can make things better. Starting with...whatever this is.

Too close. Time to go. She thumbs off the video and makes her way down to the ground as quietly as she can, not to disrupt the Veiled Eyes if possible.

Flopsy brushes against her as she returns "Foolish risk... foolish" And glamour flows, the rabbit a bit less vibrant, but her banality reduced

"Maybe...but I needed to," she whispers and gives him a quick, grateful hug. "Let's go." And she retraces her steps to get back to the car.

And they head to the car where Siv waits.

"I'm the first one back?" A worried look back towards the property.

"Second..." She gestures to Gerd

And she quick uploads the video to secure cloud storage.

Gerd is breathing hard. "Hey"

Sylvi gets in the car. "Hey. I got video. They were drugging and indoctrinating a kid. What'd you find out?"

"The girls... there was a woman there, cold.. but she was sent away to go get a boy acting up... the girls barracks... they're like Handmaidens tale in training in there"

ALARMS are going off!

Gerd blinks "Dagmar?"

"Ohhhh....dammit." Sylvi gets out of the car again, and she runs to the back. She slaps her hand over the license plate there three times, fuddling the prop to make it and its duplicate on the front look like New York plates instead of Jersey. "Any sign of Eden?"

Siv revs the engine but does not take off yet "Mom's a storm, Dagmar's a hurrricane"

Gerd says "Crap.. I gotta go out and help them... "

And they see in the distance Dagmar, fully wyrded, carrying a boy

well, teeanger

"Yeah....keep it running, Siv, and be ready to go!" Sylvi gets out and ...

"Oh, CRAP. Get her, Gerd, and back home!"

Gerd leaps out and runs towards the duo... err trio?

Is that a shoe lace or ... /Flopsy sees it better, GOOD eyes thanks to Carrots "Eden's in her boot!"

"I need an update here" Siv says

They just vanished

"In her...? Oh! Good!" She backs up to the car, and slips back inside. "Gerd's got them. Let's go...but nice and easy. Don't peel out."

"Right, sure, but what if they see my plates?" She drives as directed

"I switched them to New York. You're good."

"And me a go od Jersey girl" Wry

"Besides...the car wasn't close to the gate. Had nothing to do with it." Sylvi smiles at her.

Then a sigh. "That place is BAD news. And....oh, crap, Dagmar was carrying somebody...."

... ten minutes later...

Dagmar... Gerd... and a snake land on the table at the lodge.

With a tremendous thud