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Yue flinched against the restraints at the sound of voices, sending a crack through the barrier that shuddered into the floorboards.

Restrained? Barriers??

Time stopped. Two heartbeats... her heart was racing. The woman entering the room was suspended mid-step, and Yue could make out her shape in the [Crimson] through her closed eyes. Yue's eyes flicked left and right behind her hands, taking time to process the vague details she could make out as the [Crimson] illuminated pieces of the void.

Restrained. Unknown method. Intent: full body immobilization very likely. Unfamiliar location. Unfamiliar people.

Can move at a reduced level... likely unintentional. How long until her captor adapts and corrects?

Break free? Sudden release poses increased risk of self harm.

Further escalation of power increases risk of self harm.

Wait wait wait... The last thing I remember?

Falling, then the vivid image of her head striking the earth made her flinch again. That would definitely account for the body-wide pins and needles sensation she'd come to associate with pain. After that? It was all noise she couldn't clearly process for the moment. She mentally flagged it as 'unreliable' and moved back to what she could remember: encountering the killer during her investigation... and then suddenly being disoriented and in a foreign location. Translocation... If the murderer was a teleporter it would make the other crime scenes much clearer. Lots of things make sense now, and her pool of suspects just became much smaller: The number of teleporters that could translocate to a place not in their line of sight was relatively small.

Getting sidetracked... The woman had taken a step.

She's still talking. Shit, how much did I miss? She could be listing demands or crimes against nature! AAAAAAH!

OKAY! Okay. O.K.. She's holding a tray with food or cups or something... probably a knife. I'm about to get murdered. Calm down, calm down! Let's just... see what she wants? Right...

Yue exhaled slowly, letting her body gradually relax into the restraints so that they didn't accidentally crush her. The element of surprise was gone... maybe she should have opened her eyes or taken her face out of her hands first. That would have been smart. She held onto just enough power to press against the restraints and let the world ease back into real-time.

".......'re still in Titan's Fall, albeit you're below the plates superstructure," explained the woman.

"Undercity?" mumbled Yue from behind her hands. Ugh.......................... Yue's heart sank. There's no broadband down there. She'd miss the double XP event. All of her auctions would expire. This. Was. A. Disaster. She missed the rest of Raudd's question while her mind raced, though it only took a couple seconds for her to come back to reality.

"I was caught in an altercation with a teleporting suspect while on a murder investigation," her muffled voice replied. "What are you doing here?" or "Who do you work for?" Are good entry level interrogation questions, so it was a safe assumption.