It's raining in London... again (RP)

- Mark -

Jena laughs a little, or at least cracks a smile, at your familiar joke. She barely glances at the kids and their discussion before shrugging. "Kids." She says. "I think they were part of the school tour? Troublemakers, for sure, but not for us where we are going."

She indicates the stairs —you know that she has resolved to not use lifts or escalators where possible (do you know/suspect why?). "We are going far down."

What do you do?

- Mark -

Jena glances distractedly down the corridor. "That's ... the Egypt section. Mummies I think," You know she uses phrases like 'I think' when she knows full well exactly where is there, it makes people less 'wigged-out' about her eidetic memory. "Though there are some statues around the corner. They got here around lunchtime, their activity involved the cafeteria, it was a fiasco. But most of them seemed to enjoy it well enough."

What do you do?

- Mark -

The boys look immediately guilty, and prepared to bolt. They are probably not supposed to be alone, or in the part of the museum that you thought was closed already, but running would prove they are guilty.

"Nuffin, mister." The first says, making 'mister' sound like a rude word. "Jus looking, init."

They are, indeed (don't doubt Jena's memory:) looking at a display of Egyptian Mummies.

What do you do?

- Mark -

"Who's lyin'?" The first kid bristles at your unfounded accusation and moves away from your hand, eyeing it suspiciously. "Was jus sayin' this mummy is bigger than the one that was 'ere last month. What of it? Gotta go, my mum's waiting" He says, though this last part probably is a lie.

What do you do?

- Mark -

"This display has always been here." Jena says, not really paying attention and looking pensive about the whole subject of lying.

"Always been here, init." Says the kids.

What do you do?

- Mark -

The boys give you a defiant look when you tell them to go home, but do make a show of walking off towards the main museum.

Jena and yourself head the opposite way, back towards the stairs. The door to the stairs makes a horrid screeching sound as Jena pushes though, but she pays it no mind, leading you down many flights of stairs —you are now well below the level of Thames— before pushing out into a sub-sub-basement. There is another squealing of the door up above as you exit.

Down here it is all ancient industrial structures —heavy, old, damp stone and iron— and Jena leads you to a room with a few metal tables in the center and kilns and fire-bricks in the corners.

"We should be safe in here." She says while hanging a simple 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the outer door. "Where's the rod?"

What do you do?

Rhiannon struggles, but manages to hold Benji down enough that his self-control wins the day and no one is hurt. Bev can finish what she needs to do.

"It was pretty scary there, for a while." Bev says with a grin at Rhiannon. "Good thing I had my super-woman protector here."

Bev seems more interested in Benji than afraid, it could have turned out very different under different circumstance. She is full of questions if you will allow them —medical school was an excuse to exercise her inquisitive mind— and she is particularly curious to know how long it will take Benji to heal the rest of the way, and wants to chart the progress.

"What is this stone?" She asks, poking at the bits of demon-fist she took from Benji's flesh, but being very careful not to touch it with her skin. "Look how it is turning the bloody water black."

What do you do?

- Jacob -

"He says he 'did not take Millie's book'. That that 'jest', er, 'lacks subtlety'?" The urchin says, looking nervous about the sterner tone they are getting from the PM.

Even if your sidekick does not know what you are talking about, it seems Churchill is well aware of the case of the missing book.

What do you do?

- Jacob -

"Says he 'exists only to serve'." Your translator says with doubt in their voice —probably due to the imperious cast of the face of the statue. "Says you 'are clearly a scholar and a gentleman', but he 'does not know where the book is, doubts any of them'..." ...by this he probably means the statues of Parliament Square... "...'took it. They have no way of hiding it, so the joke would fall flat in the three days since.'"

You knew it would not be as easy as just asking the people around her, else the task would not be worthy of bringing to you. If Churchill is to be believed he does not know what happened, and, in his opinion, neither do the statues around the square, though that last part is second-hand information (third-hand if you consider your translator).

What do you do?