"I don't know how much longer. It was a private jet to Qatar and a commercial flight to Islamabad, then here."
Facts, quickly. He doesn't have time to unpack the strange spiral Armand has been on, seemingly torn between dragging him east towards his earliest memories and west towards the worst ones. Strange, awful stories at all hours, in between phone calls and meetings in dozens of languages, paying bribes, moving assets, some of which seem to have not been touched since before World War II.
"He's running into a problem getting out of the country, now, between politics and the pandemic, so maybe Russia. Until he realizes my passport is flagged with them and I end up in the fucking Gulag anyway."
Though that might be better? Uncertain. Armand has kept to the letter of Louis' threat, and he hasn't harmed Daniel, but it hasn't exactly been relaxing and the abducted human is staring to lose it a little.
"A lot of phone calls in Italian, but there's no way he's getting a flight directly to western Europe."
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Facts, quickly. He doesn't have time to unpack the strange spiral Armand has been on, seemingly torn between dragging him east towards his earliest memories and west towards the worst ones. Strange, awful stories at all hours, in between phone calls and meetings in dozens of languages, paying bribes, moving assets, some of which seem to have not been touched since before World War II.
"He's running into a problem getting out of the country, now, between politics and the pandemic, so maybe Russia. Until he realizes my passport is flagged with them and I end up in the fucking Gulag anyway."
Though that might be better? Uncertain. Armand has kept to the letter of Louis' threat, and he hasn't harmed Daniel, but it hasn't exactly been relaxing and the abducted human is staring to lose it a little.
"A lot of phone calls in Italian, but there's no way he's getting a flight directly to western Europe."