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Apophenia 0.5 Part 1

Summary: Isaac's curiosity does him no favors.

Words: 981

Content advisory: Kidnapping, drugging, needles/injection, captivity, use of restraints, being gagged, loss of consciousness, swearing, supernatural horror elements

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>Status report logged: 0124

>ID: R784

>Zone: 93

>Case Code: 1897

>Issue: Sighting

>Comments: Bloodborn in an all-nite diner next to old interstate. Scoping the place while stirring coffee. There any registered out this far or am I being jumpy?

>Re: Report #1897 logged: 0136

>ID: A209

>Zone: 163

>Good catch, Soto. Definitely shouldn’t be any registered that far off the grid. Pretty far south for one of Walsh’s brood, but you never know. Got a description we can run?

>Update report #1897 logged: 0147

>Submission >Person/Creature of Interest Form

>Name: Unknown

>Type: Bloodborn

>Age: Appearance of a man in mid to late 20s you could take home to parents

>Pronouns: Unknown (defaulting to he/him for now)

>Height: 5’5” est.

>Weight: 130-140 lbs

>Hair: Dark brown, trimmed around the ears and longer on top

>Eyes: Really bright blue or green, have that tapetum lucidum going on when the light hits them right, it's what tipped me off

>Skin/Fur/Scales: Medium brown skin, no tats, no scars, no mods. Five o’ clock shadow going on around outline of jaw but clean shaven otherwise

>Threat Assessment: Might have a weapon under the jacket, I don’t know, it’s an unregistered bloodborn that’s scary enough, right? Someone’s going to wind up getting a death hickey

>Notes: Cooking staff has been taking turns to come out on break and chat him up. Yikes. Waiting to see if subject makes a move. Will observe from a distance, maybe find daytime hiding spot

>Re: Report #1897 logged: 0152

>Keep your head down, do not engage. Sgt. Alan Curry from bloodborn dept. and Corp. Cristina Yi from magic to be deployed as soon as description is run. You know the drill.

>Re: Report #1897 logged: 0431

>Comments: Back up arrived, Soto. Meet at location on map within the next hour.

>Re: Update #1897: 0450

>Comments: Soto, status? Sgt. Curry says you haven’t shown.

>ALERT: PROTOCOL 1997: 0520

>Zone: 93

Curry, Yi, I don’t think the bastard was after the cooks. Find him.

It was embarrassing how fast it happened. Isaac had always believed he’d put up a fight at least—death before dishonor and all that enforcer talk—but there hadn’t been any warning. No clatter of footsteps rushing up behind him. No ominous chuckles from the darkness of an alley. No hair raised on the back of his neck. Just an arm snaking around it and squeezing. A few moments of pressure on his carotid arteries frosted the world white, then shrunk it down farther and farther away on the other end of a black tunnel. When it returned, it was too late. A fabric gag cut into the corners of Isaac’s lips. Zip ties trussed his hands behind his back, his ankles to each other. Disappointment in himself outweighed panic over finding himself bound in the dark trunk of a car at first. Slowly, though, reality rearranged his priorities.

He would wind up both dinner and a show if he didn’t escape. Okay, okay. He could do this. Focus. Think it through. The subtle hum of an electric engine and gentle bumping and rocking motion meant they were on the move. Trunks had latches to open them from the inside for this kind of situation, didn’t they? He could maybe wriggle around and grope until he found it. Roll out into the road. Hope he wasn’t hit by any vehicles following in that lane. Though, getting turned into an interstate pancake had to be preferable to what awaited at the end of the ride.

He’d just completed Step One—felt the rush of cool wind against his clammy skin, heard the dull roar of its passing—when the car began to lose speed and drift toward the shoulder of the road. Desperation got him as far as up onto his knees before it stopped and time ran out. The crunch of shoes on gravel came around the side. Against the backdrop of the starry sky, the silhouette of the bloodborn loomed over him. None of his features stood out clearly in the gloom of pre-dawn. Except for the eyes. Same color as a tropical sea with the pupil blown wide like a cat’s to hunt in the darkness. He reached into an inner pocket of his jacket.

“I didn’t want to resort to this, but I can already tell you’re trouble.” His voice projected goodwill, giving away only the barest hints of accent around the vowels. Spanish or Portuguese, this close to the Broken Coast.

“Fuck you,” Isaac replied in his own basic, Central States one, muffled by the gag.

A pale glimmer of teeth in the dark as the bloodborn smiled. He pulled his hand from his jacket pocket. Something small and made of glass winked in the starlight. A syringe. The cap was pulled off and tossed to the gravel.

Isaac thrashed, cursed, strained muscles. Fought for his life just like the Coven field guide suggested. It didn’t stop the bloodborn from getting an arm around his neck again while the sting of the needle sank into his bicep and released a rush of something cold into his veins. That done, he threw the syringe aside, calmly reached into the trunk, and wrenched off the escape latch with a jerk of the wrist. He still wore the same crescent sliver of a smile while sealing Isaac back into his lightly upholstered tomb. Fuming became the only remaining option. There’d be plenty of time for it, he suspected; whatever the bastard had injected him with would work even slower for having to be absorbed through muscle. That meant a long ride ahead.

It took what he estimated to be a half hour before the drug slipped into his brain, picking apart the tangled threads of terror, outrage, and despair. They unraveled, fell away. Combined with the gentle hum of the engine and rocking motion of the car it turned his eyelids and limbs to lead.

Isaac Soto rode to his doom not with a roar or whimper but a snore.

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