hangman is coming down from the gallows [closed]

[personalwar]

Who: Soldier: 76 (personalwar) & others
What: Catch-all log for October event! 76 is a fugitive, but that isn't going to stop him from digging for information. Part 2, escape and Wyver exploration!
When: October
Where: All around the dark shady parts of town, primarily in the Red Light District. Part 2, all over Wyver territory!
Warning(s): People may be trying to bring him in, so expect possible violence, language, etc!

[ This is a closed catch-all for me to put starters for any plotted threads. My plotting comment is here if you would like to do something! ]

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[likethelight]

[ Something hardens in his expression at that. Even for one so young, and 76 will find his wrist grasped. Not ungently but firmly, as Allen will mean to pull his grasp from his arm and there is a strange amount of force he has behind

Especially because he also won't let go, either. ]

I'm sorry, but I can't do that.

[ It's polite, wintery so, but quite clipped as well. With a flash in his eyes of something much calmer and far more wary now. ]

Everything that they're saying happened — [ It's a careful, conflicted. A small storm of different emotions and as much uncertainty as certainty.

If he tries to pull his grasp from Allen's regardless of whether or not he succeeded in breaking his own arm free -- it doesn't matter. He clamps down now and won't let go with surprisingly inhuman tenacity. ]

Why...?

[personalwar]

[ It's not that 76 had underestimated the kid, exactly, but he had figured that he might be able to intimidate him into silence. That doesn't seem to be the case at all, when his own forcefulness is returned in kind. As soon as the kid pulls 76's hand away, he allows it. He isn't actually looking to hurt him, and while he doesn't like the way that his wrist has been seized, he doesn't make any attempt to jerk back yet.

He can feel the strength in the kid's grip, pressing in against the bones of his wrist. Definitely not a regular teenager, then.

As much as 76 might not appreciate people demanding answers from him, he also realizes that they've only been told one side of the story. He's quiet for a few seconds, almost unnaturally so, before he exhales. ]

I was hired to apprehend the carriage, yeah. But I was told that it was Wyver spies bringing the weapons in. The idea was to make sure those weapons didn't fall into the wrong hands. Obviously we were given false information.

[ Ana and McCree are no more guilty than him, and the fact that all of them are going to be hunted for this pisses him off. But it just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished. Here he thought he'd already learned that lesson. ]