forum "This City smells like Smoke and Death" // OxO // Closed

Started July 27, 2020 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Bella nodded. "Uh huh. Now scram, I got stuff to do."

Quinn nodded, heading for the door.

Antonio followed Quinn out keeping his head low.

Quinn was silent as they walked, chewing on his lip.

Antonio glanced over at Quinn.

Quinn crossed his arms loosely, a faint frown on his face.

Antonio looked away once more before commenting, "Um, so that was a bust."

"Yeah." Quinn replied as they walked, uncrossing his arms after a moment.

"Yep," Antonio repeated what he said.

"I have no idea what to do about your family." Quinn said slowly.

Antonio attempted and he thought suceeded at looking sad about that, "Well, uh, I don't know what to do either. I guess persume their dead for now."

Quinn shrugged faintly. "Their names would be listed in the square." he replied.

"Huh," Antonio let out. He hated this suggestion, but it made sense for him to say thi, "I guess we could check there."

"Yeah." Quinn replied, leading him through the nearly empty streets.

Antonio followed after him. He almost knew the names wouldn't be there, and he would get caught in his lie. So during the walk he was thinking of how to tell Quinn, if he should tell Quinn at all.

Quinn led him into a square. Metal plaques lined the walls, each with the name of a family emblazoned on it. Some were gold; most were silver. "Gold plaques are dead Ravens. Silver is everyone else." Quinn said simply.

"Got it," Antonio replied as he looked at all the plaques in the area. So many had died here to this illness, and his father was doing nothing to help. He was doing nothing to help them. He glanced over at Quinn, "Are they in any specific order or should I just start looking?"

"No order, really. Just…start looking." he replied, heading over to the closest wall.

Antonio nodded as he made his way to a different wall. He was silently hoping that he couldn't find any Jade's here.

Quinn hummed faintly as he looked along the walls.

Antonio looked over the walls repeating his silent prayer.

He kept looking, cocking his head faintly.

Antonio glanced over at Quinn from the corner of his eye before going back to looking.

Quinn continued scanning the names, humming faintly.

Antonio kept scanning the wall.

He didn't see the last name that Tony had given him, but kept looking.