Alright, I will delete it. However, I don't exactly like that alternative. He never walked out of the building in my post, he verse even left the area around the basement stairwell. Whereas Tara left an investigation on a whim, disappeared, and by the time she comes back to the Museum everyone is gone. Matthias never came in his own car, he rode with the chief. It is completely implausible, how would she even have his phone number when they have just met, he's not even a police officer. It doesn't matter if Tara was watching from the roof, unless she has X-ray vision, she doesn't know where Matthias is. His parents and the police don't know where he is. I apologize for god modding, but please, don't yank around my characters and the scenarios like that. Even the whole one-sided exchange Tara had with him, which you gave me no chance to respond to without changing the scene entirely, was a little much, it was unprofessional, given her job, as is walking off and ignoring orders from a superior officer.
But for the subject at hand, I accept my fault and responsibility, but we are clearly going to work more at communication to make this work.
And on another note, can you perhaps tone down the evil empire of the government a bit? I can understand that you want some of them to be corrupt, but selling antiquities to pay off the debt to China? I doubt the money from the antiquities could even fund a states education budget, even if they were in the millions. I can see a low-ranking ambassador or cabinet member doing it for their own gain, but even public service members are people.
That's all. I'll go and delete the segment of that post now. But I won't be able to write anything in its place until we can come to a route that doesn't ruffle either of us.