a Series of Unfortunate Events Part: 55

[He quickly glances over to make sure there is a fire exti]nguisher in the room before his brother places his foot down the first leg of the pair of jeans he’s putting on.

Unable to hold his thoughts in, Daniels lays his queries into the room.
“Uhm is there something I should know about this interaction? And how the hell did you know to come here? Not once did you mention anything about knowing where he is and how to get here.”
Carl grimaces as he turns to respond to Daniels’s inquiries.
“yeah, we kind of have this sort of connection that we can’t seem to ignore. We’ve been this way practically our entire lives. It kinda just set in when we were teenagers. He got into a fight this one time and I kept having this nagging feeling to check in on him. I walked out into the yard and low and behold he was getting his ass kicked pretty hard by the neighbor’s kid.”
“Hey, hey, it wasn’t that bad.”
“Yeah, whatever, it was bad enough to turn this psychic leash on.”

With the successful dawning of the pants the three begin to discuss the story of why the room was the way it was and why the pants were such a dramatic item. They continue to talk further on their individual abilities reflecting on the depth of where they have been and gone in life. Nothing seems to make sense about why they are where they are. Why Cassius was hiding. Why this fiasco with the USEG ever got the momentum to get this far.

“So you’re telling me that you can’t come in contact with any electricity without damn near leveling the place?”

“Mmm sort of. I think I might be able to control it to a degree. I’ve had moments where I can get a small shock and hold it in like a breath of air. But you can only hold a breath so long before you have to exhale ya know?. The incredible part is that when I did that I could actually focus how it came out. Like it can be a burst or a flow of sorts. I don’t know. I don’t really want it, but at points it does seem like I might be able to do some good down the road.”

a Series of Unfortunate Events Part: 54

[...The carpet throughout the room has been removed and the cold cement subfloor makes his toes tingle. He doesn’t make a sound as he moves.]

Peering through the peephole, he sees Carl’s smiling face consuming almost the entire scope of the view. He quickly but carefully unlocks the door that is secured by an excessive amount of latches and bolts.

Carl enters followed by PFC Daniels. He carries a smirk on his face as he speaks to Cassius.
“You obviously haven’t been practicing”
Cassius laughs at his brother’s remarks. His laugh is probably the first he’s had in about a month.
“Yeah, let me try and put on some pants and hopefully not set the place ablaze.”
Daniels carries a clueless expression on his face throughout this exchange and continues to block out the fact that Cassius is completely naked and obviously Carl thinks this is completely okay. Frankly, he thinks the whole situation is bit psychotic looking and is bit worried that he is currently unarmed.

Cassius backs to the far corner of the room away from the others as he attempts to put on pants. Carl grins as he watches with the menacing hope that Cassius does set the corner of the room on fire just for the sake of seeing it happen. He quickly glances over to make sure there is a fire extinguisher in the room before his brother places his foot down the first leg of the pair of jeans he’s putting on.