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Some Ninao incident drawings/art from last year

On the road (scene from The Case of Kindall, K.)

After rescuing Kyle from an attempted kidnapping, and Yuuki from the helplessness of not being able to do anything to stop it.

While worrying about getting followed, they've got Yuuki's shattered and burnt arm to deal with. Given the injury, they're going to need to do field surgery to amputate it.

It's a fairly long drive before they can do anything, though.

Until then, the only reprieve Yuuki gets from the pain of the injury is passing in and out from it.

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Non-graphic art of the field surgery following this, and a little about the injury.

Ninao story WIP: the opening, pt. 3

Timothy & Joshua are rescued. (Pt.1, Pt.2)

Content warnings: kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, restraints, rescue

Joshua's POV

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The boot lid clicks, is opened. Light floods in.

Joshua stares blankly outside. A Peace Force Officer helps him out of the boot. He lets them. When his feet touch the ground, Joshua realises he’s shakier than he’d like to admit.

He looks around. They're pulled over on the shoulder of a highway. Joshua doesn't recognise it straight away.

But then he realises, if the nearby city buildings are anything to go by, that they're still in Ninao district. The sight of the road makes sense now.

They haven't travelled far. We weren't taken far.

A relief, but the two people who took them are nowhere to be seen.

Glancing at the front of the car, the engine still running but no one sitting in the drivers seat, it's not hard to tell that they fled.

...likely into the bush growing on this side of the road. From there, though...?

That's as far as Joshua's thoughts will go.

When his attention returns to in front of him, he sees his father being carefully helped out of the car. There’s rope around his wrists, tying them together behind his back. He looks dazed. His face is pale.

Timothy sees Joshua then, and the confusion and alarm on his face turns into something more like shock sinking in.

“What’s going on?” Timothy asks, uncertain.

They’re both walked over to the PF vehicles. The doors are wide open.

The PF officer who pulled Joshua out of the car keeps an eye on Timothy's expression. “Kidnapping, by the looks of it."

Timothy’s hands are cut free of the rope. Joshua’s given a blanket which he doesn’t know what to do with. The PFO grimaces then eases it from his grasp to wrap it around his shoulders.

"I’m presuming this is your son?”

Timothy looks at Joshua. “Yeah.”

“Well, your son here kicked out the taillight and flagged us. Highway patrol. We weren’t exactly expecting this sort of thing out on duty today, that’s for sure.”

Not that it should be something expected.

Timothy frowns at the red lines wrapped around his wrists. He pulls the cuffs of his sleeves up so that he can rub them a little.

“We’ve called an ambulance. They’re on their way. In the meantime, we’ll stay here with you. Can I have your names, please?”

“Timothy Harrison. And Joshua Harrison. But, uh...what about...”

Timothy trails off, casting a nervous glance out at the bush on this side of the road.

"My partner is calling for backup," the PFO says. "Once they arrive, we'll scour the area and see if we can find the people who took you."

Joshua’s starting to feel cold. He wraps the blanket around his shoulders a little more. 

“Do you have any idea who took you, or where they might have been taking you to?”

Timothy shakes his head. He winces. “No idea.”

“They just – ” Joshua starts. He swallows. “We were just at the office. Dad’s office.”

“I’m a judge at Ninao District Court,” Timothy explains.

“There were four of them. I don’t know what they were doing. I went to the bathroom, then when I came back, I saw them being taken away.”

The PFO notes this. “When you say ‘them’…was there someone else in the office besides you?”

Timothy’s lips part. But instead he turns to Joshua, horror creeping into his eyes. He looks around. Runs a hand through his hair.

“They took him too,” Joshua says. “I don’t know where. They…”

The information really settles in then – and the scene replays in his mind with that additional knowledge. How had it not crossed his mind back at the carpark outside the office?

The car that left before them – that’s the one that had Yuuki in it.

"Yuuki," Joshua says. "Yuuki Takahashi. He was with us. But they took him."

And now we have no idea where he is.

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Ninao incident WIP: the opening, pt. 2

How Timothy (and Joshua) escaped the attempted kidnapping. Continues on from this scene.  

Content warnings: kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, claustrophobia (just in case), implied rescue. 

Joshua's POV 

Note: in NZ English, we say ‘the boot of the car’ instead of ‘the trunk of the car’.

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Joshua is coming back from the bathroom when, down the hallway, he sees his Dad and Yuuki being carried off. Four figures surround them, dressed in black and dark green and with their identities disguised.

Both Yuuki and Timothy are slumped in the hold of their captors. They’re flanked on both sides with their arms locked in a firm grip and their feet trailing on the ground behind them.

Before Joshua can mentally make the call, his feet come to a halt. Fear rushes over him, adrenaline. He stands stock still, in the hallway where he is.

They haven’t seen him. They haven’t seen me. I should stay out of sight, right? Call the police, let the Peace Forces handle it. I’m not the PF, I can’t –

But something tells him that if he doesn’t do something, he might never see his father and Yuuki again.

Joshua hears the word ‘stupid’ playing in his own voice over and over in his head. He screams it at himself, but runs in the direction of his father’s receding figure anyways.

Day three: found and rescued

The next part of the rescue, after having done first aid checks and untied him: moving Yuuki out of the small shed to wait for the ambulance.

Sketch following this.