"How about I just give it to you, and you can give it to Faust in exchange for my money?" I asked the man.
He didn't say anything as he turned right, his footsteps clipping along the wooden floor.
"Yeah, I like that plan better." I fished in my pocket, comforted slightly by the sloshing inside. "Here."
He wordlessly turned right again, and I followed into a much narrower space as the hallway. The walls bounced back our sounds much faster than they had.
"Wait," he snapped and shut the door.
"No, you wait." I lunged toward the door just as a lock outside slid home. My breaths stalled. "Hey!" I banged on the wood with both my fist and my stick.
Silence.
Goddamn it, Aika. I supposed I'd really pissed him off.
This was not good. Of course, I couldn't have predicted that coming to Old
