Re: [B&B: Nimue and Connie]
[This was all Nimue could do. Enter, visit, and Mother had always been of two minds about it. It could do good, and the world could learn from the past. But there was also the possibility of damage, of tampering, of learning things that should not be known. In the hands of Grandfather, the ability to slip into any image and learn the secrets held within, that would be something truly dreadful. All one needed was an image, and everything was captured digitally. Every bank would be accessible, every confidential file readable, and every secret place unlocked. This truth had led Mother here, to this place where she destroyed any photograph once found in Algol Manor. Limited and vast, but Nimue didn't understand how the man in the photograph could cause any disturbance.
The information offered was not, in fact, helpful.
Nimue didn't flinch away from the macabre thing that the blonde girl became, though she felt this to be a rather horrid and unfortunate side effect of whatever the girl was doing. Nimue did, however, keep hold of the girl's hand, as she'd grasped the fact that it somehow kept this skeletal mess from sight, as no one was screaming and jumping out windows.
One hand still on the image, and it crackled with energy. It sparked gold, like desert sands, as the air around them wooshed, and they were deposited in the gymnasium from the photograph. It was a rather unimpressive place, and Nimue found nothing here worth seeing. But the blonde was having a moment about being seen, and Nimue had never been noticed arriving, not when she traveled on her own. Another oddity of the day, and she looked about and pointed to the bleachers, which looked quite dreadful, but rather good for hiding, in some unfortunately simplistic way.
At first, she didn't speak; she merely tugged. She was quiet until they were hidden, their vantage point allowing them to peer between sneakers and wooden slats.] He didn't see us. [A whisper.] Can he sense us? I'd rather your father not kill us in this horrid and common place.