[b][i]Alan[/i][/b]

Astra was a very unlucky girl, literally. Alan's guards saw a flash of her silvery hair as the little girl tried to hide, and the rightmost one spoke to their commanding officer:

"That seems like the little girl the Overseer wanted us to find. Should we nab her?" 

"No," was Alan's reply. "Let her find refuge in the library; this will give me more cause to blackmail the librarian." He chuckled. "Let's see how [i]he[/i] deals with the battle between his 'morals' and his fear of me."

And with that, he left.

Perhaps Astra hadn't been as unlucky as she thought, after all...

[b][i]Par[/i][/b]

After Par sold his guns for more caps, as well as dried mussels, grain, maize, and crudely purified water - Liberty Island still had a few water purifiers - he boarded his truck and began to head for The Library again...

[@agentmanatee], [@TheUnknowable].