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I managed to re-focus on the walk-in freezer fic in the morning and got a few more pages. Now I'm at the part where the villain realizes Autor played him for a fool and composed a piece of music that enabled Ahiru to escape and go for help. The villain sent the guards out looking for Ahiru and has Autor pinned to the floor. As the guards come back without having found her, the villain pulls off Autor's glasses and forces him to try to run from the guards when he can barely see anything other than shapes and blurs. ;___; The plan is for Autor to manage to elude them for a short while, but then he ends up falling down the stairs to the basement and is beaten. A horrifying and cruel scenario, the idea of which came about after trying to determine how to keep Autor's glasses from being broken while he was being beaten. They mockingly return them when they lock him in the freezer. He's able to see clearly then, but after the harsh beating and being in there a while with the temperature turned lower than it's supposed to be, he's delirious.
My question now is how will Ahiru call for help without the help coming right away? I need them to be helpless for a good while. But she needs to contact someone or Autor's sacrifice for her will be in vain. Fakir is at Raetsel's, so the original plan was for Ahiru to call him and it would take him a while to get there. But I'm wondering if she should call the police instead. It depends on how far-reaching the knowledge of Story-Spinning is post-series. This is the next town over, so if Ahiru called the police I could have them aware of the Story-Spinners and the predicaments they might get into. At this point, everyone is supposed to remember all of the weird stuff about Kinkan (long story), so that would not be impossible. And since the creep is trying to lure Fakir there, calling him might not be the best thing unless he was going to try to write Ahiru and Autor out of their situation from a distance. The guy has many guards.
But if Ahiru calls the police, what would keep them from getting there soon? Bleh. I'm wondering if I should make it that the place they're in with the freezer is a concealed room and once Ahiru goes in and gets Autor out of the freezer, she's unable to get the room's door open and the police have a hard time finding them after they arrest the crooks.
That seems logical enough.
My question now is how will Ahiru call for help without the help coming right away? I need them to be helpless for a good while. But she needs to contact someone or Autor's sacrifice for her will be in vain. Fakir is at Raetsel's, so the original plan was for Ahiru to call him and it would take him a while to get there. But I'm wondering if she should call the police instead. It depends on how far-reaching the knowledge of Story-Spinning is post-series. This is the next town over, so if Ahiru called the police I could have them aware of the Story-Spinners and the predicaments they might get into. At this point, everyone is supposed to remember all of the weird stuff about Kinkan (long story), so that would not be impossible. And since the creep is trying to lure Fakir there, calling him might not be the best thing unless he was going to try to write Ahiru and Autor out of their situation from a distance. The guy has many guards.
But if Ahiru calls the police, what would keep them from getting there soon? Bleh. I'm wondering if I should make it that the place they're in with the freezer is a concealed room and once Ahiru goes in and gets Autor out of the freezer, she's unable to get the room's door open and the police have a hard time finding them after they arrest the crooks.
That seems logical enough.
