18 Apocalypse Avenue, Thursday Afternoon

[agentthepaper]

After fleeing the library, Yomiko dashed home and into her basement apartment...which had an inch of water and rising on the floor. "Oh, no" she moaned, hurrying to move a few stacks of books off the floor onto her bed. "Oh, I have to get them out of here." She ran back upstairs carrying an armload of books and called desperately, "Help! Oh, please help! Anyone?"

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[agentthepaper]

Yomiko started up the stairs, calling over her shoulder, "What kind of containment do they have?"

[blossomsofice.livejournal.com]

"Enough to transport an enchanted crossbow capable of leveling skyscrapers without a risk factor of more than 1.4 percent," Sakura said, following her up with the first of the two boxes. "I calculated that myself."

[agentthepaper]

Yomiko paused for breath in the living room. "What about...what about keeping people out?"

[blossomsofice.livejournal.com]

Sakura put the box down and immediately turned to go back for the second one. "They can be keyed to specific people's fingerprints, if that's what you're wondering," she called up the stairs.

[agentthepaper]

"Not exactly," Yomiko muttered before following Sakura back down the stairs.

[blossomsofice.livejournal.com]

Sakura felt around in her pocket when she got to the bottom of the stairs, but she only had one more of the lockbox cards on her. "I think the water level may be rising a little faster."

[agentthepaper]

"I think it'll only take a few more trips," Yomiko told her as she splashed across the floor to gather up another load of books. "Let's say, hypothetically, someone could move through solid matter." A shadow briefly crossed her expression at the thought of Nancy.

[blossomsofice.livejournal.com]

Sakura did have to stop to think about that one. "I've never had to deal with that situation before," she admitted, and suddenly her risk-factor analysis of the lockboxes underwent a dramatic shift. "It's possible they could be adapted, though."

[agentthepaper]

"Yeah, see, I have problems like that," Yomiko told her.