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Jun. 1st, 2011 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiery_ringCarlotta's beginning to worry about the lack of progress. Something is going on, but even though she's convinced Raul and Eduardo that she's on their wavelength, there's a distinct lack of information about their plan.
It changes almost by chance, as she steps outside to take out the bins and bumps into Raul. He stops to help her pick up the dropped rubbish.
"You look happy." Carlotta comments, looking at him. "Find a rare rock?"
"Oh no, much better." Raul says, his eyes bright with excitement. He looks around to see if anyone is listening, then adds. "I've discovered something wonderful, marvellous. Something to help the war effort and drive the British from Gibraltar forever!"
Carlotta feels an icy chill run down her spine, but does her best not to show it.
"All of them?" she asks, putting on an air of wonder. "Gracious, how exciting! But surely they're buried deep in tunnels?" She half wonders if the geologist was making it up to try and impress her.
"There's a crack." Raul says in hushed tones. "In the rocks. I've done all the geological work and according to the map of the tunnels we've got, I've determined that dropping a powerful explosive in it would cause a rock collapse that brings down practically all of the tunnels at once. The rats will have nowhere to run to except out into the open!"
Carlotta, heart racing, grins at him and takes his hands gently.
"You're frightfully clever. Have you told the others yet?"
"No no, just you. I'm on my way there now." Raul says.
"Well come in for a moment? I think we should celebrate." Carlotta says.
Raul eagerly follows her into the house, and she takes him into the kitchen. She puts the kettle on and hovers next to the kitchen drawer, knowing at the back of her mind that she probably ought to kill him. But then there's the matter of whether she'd win, and disposal of the body, and whether the others knew where he was going today... Maybe there's another way to get the location and keep him from telling the others?
As she makes tea, she gets a hip flask out of an inside pocket - very strong flavourless alcohol from the bar, and puts just one drop in. She doesn't want him too drunk to give out the information. And then, she invites him up to her room.
A little while later, she relays the information to London. After an anxious wait, she hears back that they've found the crack in the rock, and are busy sealing it off.
They tell her that she's saved about nine hundred lives tonight. She knows Will was in there. But that was a bit too close for comfort.
It changes almost by chance, as she steps outside to take out the bins and bumps into Raul. He stops to help her pick up the dropped rubbish.
"You look happy." Carlotta comments, looking at him. "Find a rare rock?"
"Oh no, much better." Raul says, his eyes bright with excitement. He looks around to see if anyone is listening, then adds. "I've discovered something wonderful, marvellous. Something to help the war effort and drive the British from Gibraltar forever!"
Carlotta feels an icy chill run down her spine, but does her best not to show it.
"All of them?" she asks, putting on an air of wonder. "Gracious, how exciting! But surely they're buried deep in tunnels?" She half wonders if the geologist was making it up to try and impress her.
"There's a crack." Raul says in hushed tones. "In the rocks. I've done all the geological work and according to the map of the tunnels we've got, I've determined that dropping a powerful explosive in it would cause a rock collapse that brings down practically all of the tunnels at once. The rats will have nowhere to run to except out into the open!"
Carlotta, heart racing, grins at him and takes his hands gently.
"You're frightfully clever. Have you told the others yet?"
"No no, just you. I'm on my way there now." Raul says.
"Well come in for a moment? I think we should celebrate." Carlotta says.
Raul eagerly follows her into the house, and she takes him into the kitchen. She puts the kettle on and hovers next to the kitchen drawer, knowing at the back of her mind that she probably ought to kill him. But then there's the matter of whether she'd win, and disposal of the body, and whether the others knew where he was going today... Maybe there's another way to get the location and keep him from telling the others?
As she makes tea, she gets a hip flask out of an inside pocket - very strong flavourless alcohol from the bar, and puts just one drop in. She doesn't want him too drunk to give out the information. And then, she invites him up to her room.
A little while later, she relays the information to London. After an anxious wait, she hears back that they've found the crack in the rock, and are busy sealing it off.
They tell her that she's saved about nine hundred lives tonight. She knows Will was in there. But that was a bit too close for comfort.
