All You Need is Me

Consequences

Time waits for no one

It will not slow down just because one asked for it to

It will not stop when one begs for extra seconds

And it will not cease until the end inevitably comes for those that are deemed ready for it

So make the most of what you have

And do what you can.

Durandal slowly drove along the rather vacant road, her gaze lingering on the myriad of houses littered across the sidewalk. Her eyes occasionally flickered back to the interior of her car, blue irises gazing at the small digital clock flashing before her steering wheel.

It was still early morning, but people had already begun leaving their homes, likely heading off to work.

She didn't pay much heed to that however, her mind focused on just one thing. One confusing information that she had yet to fully decipher within her head.

It was the three distinct locations she had been given by Bronya, all of which hardly held little relevance from one another.

No matter how hard she tried to think of an explanation for such a case, she couldn't quite figure out what each of them meant. Was it just to act as a diversion of some kind? No, that couldn't be, Raiden Mei didn't even know she was being tailed by Durandal until two days ago.

If so, then what were the purposes of these addresses? Was it to house Kiana in them? But if that's the case, it didn't explain the weirdly public and crowded apartment complex, and it certainly didn't explain the abandoned and broken down workshop either.

The only one that would fit the bill would be the house in that elderly neighborhood, the very one she was currently driving around the outer area to survey the place, but if that really was its purpose, how does that explain the fact that Mei had to walk here, if she was really holding her little sister in that house, wouldn't it make more sense if she had walked from this direction?

Something wasn't adding up. And Durandal was getting more frustrated with herself by the minute for not knowing what was missing.

She racked her brain, stopping her car completely as her mind was dwelling too much to even focus on pressing on the pedal anymore, the car awkwardly halted in the middle of the road. She tightened her grip on the steering wheel, closing her eyes as she let her mind wander even deeper into her psyche.

There had to be something. Anything.

....The address?

A spark ignited inside her head, her eyes burst wide open as she brought them back onto the road ahead of her.

No, it was more specific than that. It was the area that each one was located that she had carelessly overlooked last night, thinking not much of it until now.

One of the things she picked up on when she got the address from Bronya, was the fact that they were all relatively close to each other. Not enough to just simply walk there if you don't want to spend that much time getting from one place to another, but it was still doable.

Back then, she didn't quite give it all that much thought, but now...now she realized just how important that really was. It was right there in front of her.

Consecutively.

The locations of each place were stationed just shy from each other, but rather in a circular radius, it was almost like a straight line. The only one that deviated from this was the abandoned workshop, but judging from the fact that it was the oldest place that woman had purchased before the other two, she felt safe to exclude it from the equation. Which only left her with two real options.