that someone's lookin' out for us, that someone loves us

[slavophile]

( After searching the hunters' phone, decoding barely cryptic cypher, and triangulating what he realizes are coordinates, he brings everyone together. Timing is crucial.

The summer solstice is that evening.

Isaac, Bonnie, Gloria, Mia, Danny, the twins, and Hope are in William's room. )

It's the Astronomical Clock.

( "The abstract art?" Lizzie asks, remembering her meet-whatever with Danny in front of that very landmark.

Hope, Josie and Danny found the same. With the twins' begrudging acceptance of Jo's informative text (and not much more scolding, maybe it's coming), the plan comes together. With the summer equinox being about the incoming nourishment after action, then this is the local yearly ritual. )

Witches will be there in droves. In plain clothes, but there to reaffirm and grow their power. That is the hunters' target. What I don't know, is if this is a blunt assault. I downloaded schematics. This looks on the outside like an act of terrorism.

( So. Bomb. )

Every hunter we find is low on the totem pole. The higher ranked hunters run the ops. There will be civilians and civilian hunters. Low-ranked boy and Girl Scouts. It's dangerous.

( Which is why their answers are few and far between and why Cooper's double agent act only gets him so far. )

What do you think?

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[jockwitch]

( As if on cue, the hunters all drop dead, but not one witch in the room moved a finger or flicked their wrists. Lizzie looks around them, then back in the direction Danny went. She looks at her sister for approval before running off.

"I'd say we made the murder party," Hope says, flippantly, trying to make sense of any of it. )

[blackstarred]

[Mia frowns as she makes her way closer to the nearest hunter to her. Crouching down, she checks the pulse of the body and looks up at the rest of the witches to shake her head.]

What the hell?

["They're a sacrifice. Whoever was trapping us in was sacrificing them." Josie tenses, before glancing around at the bodies. "We need to get out of here."]

[havethings]

( Hope approaches another hunter, waits for Mia's conclusion, and then searches everyone's faces. )

Or, this was the quick and dirty way for the Prague coven to save themselves. I know something about not giving somebody the whole plan.

( Bruno looks up from the body he inspects, getting to his feet.

"This was not the plan. There was no plan. We were here. That is all. Ask Isaac Lahey!"

Her sense motive check (3) keeps Hope on the train of her one-track mind. )

Isaac Lahey isn't here, but you are, and so are about half a dozen real people. Was this your spell?

( "No."

"Hope, he's not lying." Lizzie knows (nat 20), and she didn't catch up to Danny. Danny went up, Lizzie checked to see if he had run out.

She's Hope's friend, Hope has done the same thing to her, and this is not what that looks like, or how it feels. "Josie's right. The hunters were canon fodder and we could be to for all we know. That spell was taking from us, Hope. So, let's find Danny and get out of here."

"Leave, Hope Mikaelson," Bruno says, as a stern, firm order, and not a warning. Of course he's heard of Hope Mikaelson. Even with two living parents, Hope has genetics on her side and history. She has a mean streak a mile wide."I will not ask again." )

[blackstarred]

Overwatch, do you have a twenty on Lahey?

[Because where is Isaac. That is a very good question. But she will reach forward and place a hand on Hope's shoulder lightly.]

C'mon. Let's go sweep the square and see if there are any stragglers.

[Josie gives Hope a sympathetic look in return, before glancing to Lizzie. "We'll go find Danny. We'll meet you outside."]