Shadowrun - 24 - Steel Rain by Smith Nyx

Author:Smith, Nyx [Smith, Nyx]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

23

"We're here. Doctor."

"Where?"

The place Kron names is of no particular interest. They have come here, wherever that is, because Yoi was asked to do so. It is not where he had been going when he first set out in his car, but that is of little import. Any time spent away from his library is so much wasted time, anyway. The time may be pleasant, diverting, or entertaining, occasionally informative, but ultimately it is a waste. Perhaps he will catch up with the fellows of the Logos Society later this afternoon, or sometime this evening. Whether that thought is realized or comes to nothing is only of very modest significance.

Yoi closes the covers of a privately published volume entitled, Nandyavarta in the Sixth World, an investigation of mystic labyrinths as guides to the inner mysteries. He looks to the massive ork leaning in through the limousine door. "Taking your ritual kit. Doctor?" Kron asks.

Yoi replies, "It would seem indicated."

Kron takes the hard-shelled case of the ritual kit. Yoi takes up his bag, like a medical bag, and follows the ork to the sidewalk, through an entranceway guarded by a crowd of males with agitated auras, and into a small lobby area. Here he is met by three members of the Nagato Green Serpent Guard. Kron assists with introductions. The female among the three Guards appears to be in charge and greets Yoi with great formality and respect. She is an interesting specimen of female, elf female. Her aura burns like magma, full of hardened resolve. She is also tall and long of limb and possessed of an elf's natural elegance.

"What is your name?"

"Machiko," she replies.

It is occasionally useful to know such things.

"This way please, Doctor," says "Machiko."

They take an elevator down. They come to a room with a window looking into another room. The female, Machiko, explains that the female in the next, confined to a chair, is to be the subject of an examination. Machiko uses the term "interrogation," but this of course is inappropriate and misleading.

"What do you wish to learn?" Yoi asks.

Machiko says, "I must learn the whereabouts of an individual, a mage, known as Gamma."

"This is some form of sobriquet?"

"An assumed name, yes. So it would appear. I must also learn where to find the membership of Gamma's terrorist group, known as White Octagon."

"This is a racist group? opposed to metahumans?"

"You are familiar with the name."

"I conjecture, based on the use of the octagon. The octagon, or octagram, is a mystic figure, the subject of some speculation, as it has eight termini or points, yet is formed of a single, unbroken line. In various contexts it is often said to represent the concept of regeneration. Given terrorists with symbols of regeneration, or rebirth, and the color white, which may be said to represent death or purity, I conjecture that racists may be involved. And what are racists but those opposed to metahumans?"

Machiko appears to regard his comments with some degree of uncertainty, as though the chain of reasoning, admittedly tenuous, does not appear plain to her.

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