Shadowrun Legends: Run Hard, Die Fast by Mel Odom

Author:Mel Odom [Odom, Mel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Published: 2016-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

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Location: CalFree Safehouse

“It’s more than just Villiers and Ironaxe,” Andi said. “Shikei Nakatomi’s involved as well. Villiers kept me away from Nakatomi while the Fuchis were one, so I don’t think Asian Fuchi knows who I am. At least, they didn’t. Nakatomi’s corp espionage teams must really be earning their nuyen these days, because somebody tripped them to this run.” She let out a deep breath and I could see the pain lines around her mouth. “Nakatomi smuggled a mole onto my team. A guy named Pendleton Frost. Villiers put the team together and I had the final say, but you know how that scans.”

I knew exactly how that scanned. It was one of the chief reasons I was no longer a player in the corp scene. The corps looked at the bottom line, at what they wanted to accomplish rather than how feasible it was. Villiers was usually a joker who played his cards close to his vest, but he was also a risk-taker. Corp players had to be. Steady and conservative only netted modest profits. Someone willing to roll the dice on an all-or-nothing bid brought up the big payoff.

Villiers operated off the potential profit margins, using them as a benchmark to justify the risk. Money had never interested me as much as doing the right biz for the right reasons. Maybe it was all the early indoctrination Brynnmawr and his associates programmed into me while they were bringing me up. I liked to think I was that way because I chose to be. Walking away from Andi had been the hardest thing I’d ever done since leaving Brynnmawr, but both of those steps had been affirmation in my mind that I was my own man.

And being that was my bottom line, it was the only thing I could live with.

“By the time I found out about Pendleton Frost,” Andi said, “it was too late. He’d compromised the run, too late to stop us, but early enough that four of my people died when we tried to get away.” She smiled wryly. “Almost got away, I should say. The son-of-a-slitch sold DNA samples from my group to Nakatomi. While we were occupied dodging Ironaxe’s corpcops, Nakatomi’s people ambushed us. I lost two more people in a dustup with Asian Fuchi. The last report I got from my spotters surrounding the periphery of this site told me Ironaxe’s people may be close to digging us out here.”

I paused the chip-play again, keeping my emotions locked in. I had no way of knowing if Ironaxe had found Andi or not. “Peg, scan through the news trid and screamsheet downloads coming out of the Pueblo Council lands.”

“I’ve been doing that since Ironaxe’s name first came up,” Peg responded. “They’ve still got a lot of hot spots out there, and the number of acts of violence I’ve listed are in the dozens now. It’s going to take some time ferreting out all of the information on them.

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