madnovel Chapter 1591 Eavesdropping Again Part 2
Chapter 1591 Eavesdropping Again Part 2
--- Hunter ---
Hunter and Meg didn't get anything else relevant from the following conversations between the gardening group except slightly better understandings of how they all thought so they decided to move on. There were plenty of people to listen in on. At least that was the theory. The next set of people they found were sleeping despite it being the middle of the day.
Meg and Hunter had no issue with sneaking into their rooms and taking a quick look around but without leaving obvious signs of investigation there wasn't anything relevant.
The adults... oh the adults. They managed to work out where they all were, it was a bedroom towards the back corner of the compound. Hunter stopped in the corridor and glanced at Meg who shrugged. Hunter decided to be more specifics, "So is it even worth going forward?" The smell was enough of a hint. It seemed the room was soundproof and well-ventilated but not quite well ventilated enough.
"Worried about a bit of sex? Seems like a rather weak excuse for a clan member," offered Meg.
Hunter didn't rise to the bait. "I have seen and killed many an animal mid mating. It is an excellent way to find them distracted but at the moment we're looking for information not deaths and I don't see how we could overhear anything useful. It may be a soundproof room but I suspect, heavily, that the soundproofing was never intended for clandestine meetings. I wonder if they even know,"
"Surely they would," said Meg. "Even if they didn't realise at first I imagine someone found out and the news spread from there."
"Right, so back to the question, we skip this correct?" asked Hunter.
"It really doesn't bother me. I was mostly just picking at you to see if you'd go along with it out of pride for the clan. I mean, I was pretty weak with my attempt but that was the point. I don't feel strongly about it one way or the other so sure, let's skip over this room.
Honestly the adults seem to have checked out somewhat based on the fact that young adults that may or may not be teens are the ones voting for what to do," said Meg.
Hunter shrugged and they left the area, passing a few empty rooms and eventually looping around to the gym. Except now instead of working out they could hear two people going at it in a rap battle. Nothing serious and based on the fact you could hear an extra set of voices in the room but no additional scents they were just singing along with a recording.
They were actually quite good, whoever the real people were. Perhaps better then the recording. In Hunter's mind it had too many filters on it distorting the heart of the piece.
"Which... I dunno. They stop talking about that stuff when I'm around. Not that they've hidden any of the resources on the intranet... nor are they the best at keeping it out of the movies and books they recommend me. As long as it's not in front of them they seem to forget it's a problem. Which... urgh just makes me think they're hopeless.
"Which is why I'm tempted to just go and wake Corela myself. If I knew how I think I'd have done it yesterday. They're just going to bicker about this for weeks otherwise because I doubt anyone really wants the pressure.
I'm also pretty sure that's one of the reason they keep putting off doing anything, because finalising this first part makes you responsible and god knows nobody in this damned place wants to be responsible!
"Yes I'm still annoyed about the time they stuck gum in my hair, made fun of me for it, and then harassed me for shaving my head when NOBODY WOULD HELP ME GET RID OF IT. I... I don't hate them but they just... the feel so useless so much of the time. I get they had an established dynamic within the bigger group and all their littler ones... but would it kill them to properly integrate me?
I haven't been five for a long time and..."
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The girl sucked in a deep breath and put the tablet she was using down to calm herself. She stayed there silently for a full minute at which point Meg and Hunter glanced at each other as if wondering if it was time to leave. Before they could make up their minds or start a conversation about it, the teen was picking the tablet back up and resuming her diary entry. "Sorry diary.
I do try not to yell at you over stuff like this. I use this time to relax and it's not like I never do anything with anyone...
"I've sort of become part of the 'gym rats' whatever that means... but they're all crazy. I just don't want to end up a fat blob! I don't need my muscles to be larger then my head! At least the karaoke battles are always fun. I think there was meant to be one on today but I... I guess I'm just not feeling it.
"I... I think I need to look into the cryo pods. I don't know if there's instructions for operating them somewhere inside. I certainly couldn't find them anywhere else... I can just... not open them if I don't know what I'm doing. I have the self control for that much. I just have to hope I don't get caught... though. Should I really be telling you this diary?
I keep you private but I'm sure the others know... hmm... welp too late now. I don't want to delete anything I've got stored," finished the teen as she hugged the table to her chest.
*Oh dear. This puts us on something of a time limit... unless we want Corela out and about? Might have to stop our info gathering and get Bower's opinion.*