Night fell over the safe, everyone had fallen asleep, with the exception of Reeza. She hopped out of Afro's pack, skittering about for a bit before her attention span fell back to waking up her owner. With some persistent nibbling Afro stirred to life, "Yeesh, Reeza, what is it?" He noticed the woman named Minder staring at him. "Ah, hell, ever heard of knocking?" The woman glared at Afro, then left the room. Getting to his feet he picked up Reeza, who was content to sitting on his shoulder. He followed the woman outside, she didn't seem to favor Afro. Then again, he was an outsider to most of them, they finally got to a smaller enclosed room where she gestured to a couch.

"Sit." Afro realized this lady really didn't like him. Ah well, who knows why. Then again, when he wasn't covered he was a walking "Shoot me" beacon. She took the chair across from him, she finally spoke, her words slow and carefully chosen. "First off, I don't trust you, I've heard rumors of a man matching your description and I refuse to think you and a ferret have been able to avoid the Litpol this long by luck alone." Afro laughed, his usual cheerful attitude faded away. He took a band off his wrist and pulled his hair back, he addressed Minder afterwards .

"Lady, I don't have a clue about you, but you shouldn't guess about me either. I've seen some good mates vanish from those litpols, once they toss you in a van. You usually don't return, however, don't think I've gotten by with just luck. Me and Reeza here have been tagging for as long as we can, and plan to see how much longer we can go. I helped two of your own out and I'm out my board because of it. So how about you cut me some slack and let me get some shuteye?" Minder was irate, she didn't expect the overly tattooed man to have this response ready. He leaned back against the couch and grinned, "Besides," he said, "You guys could use some color down here, how about it?" Minder gave a small grin, for as irritating as Afro came off. He had a certain charm to himself, maybe that's how he kept dodging trouble.

"Fine, for now you can be with us, you'll need tp speak with the others before you are officially one of us. However, I think I have something to thank you for your time," she said as she walked towards one of the walls. Minder looked about for a moment before finding what she was looking for. She drew a longboard off the wall, the bottom of the board was emblazoned with a phoenix. "We found this a few weeks ago, nobody could find a use for such a toy but you can put it to good use. Consider it makes us even." She placed the board in his hands and left the room. Afro took a look at Reeza, she narrowed her eyes at the board and back to Afro. He knew the board was his best method of travel, he picked up the board and returned to the room. Ash was sitting in the room, she had a tentative look in her eyes.

"'ey Ash, how goes it?" She grinned sheepishly.

"Umm, I'm sorry Afro, I forgot to give this back," she held out his black book. Afro laughed as he realized he'd completely forgotten his book back in the train when he left the train.

"Damn, thanks. I swear sometimes I'd forget Reeza if she didn't have her teeth firmly lodged into my shoulder." He took the book back and gently placed it back into the pack. Ash was still quite silent, Afro raised an eyebrow in curiousity.

"Everything allright?" Ash blushed as she attempted to find the words to ask.

"Could you finish teaching me about tagging, I really want to learn more of you. I mean about you!" Her face flushed a deep crimson as Afro picked up his pack.

"Sure, let's get to work. I saw a few blank rooms that we could work with."

Reeza hopped off Afro's shoulder and watched on with her usual curiosity to the wee hours of the morning. Afro had a pupil, he realized that he'd been taught by the greats. Now it was probably him and a handful of others who still held to the trade. It was about time he made sure the Litpol remembered who they were.

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Author guidance for This story

This Author's Guidance is updated continuously... please take the time to read it as there is VITAL information there. Who is who, who is where, that sort of thing.

********BEFORE POSTING*********
**READ THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS**

This helps you get a feel for the story. I know there's a lot, but if you don't you're going to miss stuff and we will loose the flow of the story. Until now we've done a good job and there haven't been too many glaring errors and they've generally been fixed quickly.

The basic premise is similar, creative/artistic minds are the outcasts of society. They're shunned, even hunted by the rest. And we, a literary society known as the Protagonizers, have formed a resistance movement.

Come as you, come as your protag-self, and let's stick it to the man!

********SOME SUGGESTIONS********
---> Mark all the posts relevant to your particular storyline as you go along.
IE: Asheyna and Afroferret are travelling together, I've (Asheyna) marked all posts written by us so I can find them easily and refer to them when writing.
---> If you're going to write and include other characters in your chapter there's two great options:
* Leave the ending open, allow them to respond to what you've introduced
* Confer with them before committing them to a course of action
* Neither of these are necessary, just something to consider when writing as you may be unaware of an ongoing plot-line that is developing behind the scenes between other authors
---> Last but not least, aim for continuity, whether it's character personality or events in the story.

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The Story So Far (July 2)

Sly - on the move with Pvt Addams

*Unknown Hideout - New Safe?*
Darkliquid, Robyn, Kai, Gwen, Archi, Druidx
-Dru appears unable to speak... is she having a change of heart?

Raven - formerly Bluejay, met up with her father, heading to Eastern Canada to get new ID?

Asheyna and Afro - trapped by LitPol on a train
-Afro just revealed to be former agent, has be betrayed them?

*Bard's Hidout*
Brenden, Spockeh and crew
-the Bard has been helping Spockeh et al? can he be trusted? is he really the Bard?

*In a hospital*
Faltarego - unclear as to what's going on around him... no ID to tell the hospital staff who he is.

*RIP*
Bluejay's guard
Eloosive
"Bluejay"
Jack

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Further Guidance:
The Protagonists are a non-violent group. They stand for creativity and free expression. While they have no clear set "mission" they are attempting to remind people what it used to be like. Showing people beauty in art, literature and music.

After their main meeting place, The Safe, was compromised by Spockeh he was instructed to blow it up (taking a few LitPol with it). A new building is now needed for the Safe, as well as a method to alert other Protagonists as to it's location.

updated Jul 2 '09 by Asheyna