Shadowrun: Borrowed Time by R.L. King

Author:R.L. King
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf, azw3
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Published: 2015-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 24

PERTH, AUSTRALIA

SUNDAY NIGHT

Scuzzy hadn’t been able to get them all on the same plane to Perth: on such short notice, it was safer to split the group. Winterhawk and Ocelot went together on one flight that left Los Angeles early Sunday morning; they now sat in a small tourist bar near the airport that rocked the whole kangaroos-and-boomerangs aesthetic, waiting for the others to arrive. It was a little before midnight, local time.

They hadn’t gotten much chance to talk on the plane. Ocelot was clearly nervous; even though his fake SIN was in order, he’d left all of his toys except his monowhip at home, planning to pick up replacements locally. He spent the entire flight keeping watch from his window seat as if expecting someone to jump them in midflight. Winterhawk had taken the opportunity to grab a catnap and ended up sleeping for most of their time in the air. Unlike Ocelot, he wasn’t concerned about security issues: his SIN was legitimate these days, and he neither needed nor carried any weapons.

“So,” Ocelot said, lowering his voice as he finished his first beer and waved toward the cute blonde waitress for another one. “You holdin’ up okay?”

Winterhawk nodded. “Fine,” he said. It was a lie: his headache had increased beyond his basic-level painkillers’ ability to mitigate it, but he was reluctant to take anything stronger that might affect his mental edge. His extended nap on board the plane had been plagued by uneasy nightmares featuring the same sort of horrific creatures he’d seen during Mr. Johnson’s “demonstration” back at their original meet, which meant he didn’t feel any more rested now than he had before.

“So, what are you doing about this?” Ocelot asked.

“What do you mean?”

He snorted. “You heard me. You doin’ anything to try to figure out who’s behind it? Any idea who it might be?”

“Not really.” Winterhawk shook his head. “I sent out a few discreet inquiries to some trusted people after the meet, but so far no one’s come up with anything definitive. Whoever it was who did this, they were very careful. Almost as if they knew I’d check up on them, and the sort of resources I could call on.”

“What about this poison? You know anything about it?”

“No. I had Maya check me over, but I haven’t time to go find someone to do a full scan. If I’ve really got less than a week to get this done, even a brief side trip to visit someone I trust is more than I’m willing to risk. Especially since I’ve no way to know if they’ll even be able to figure out what it is.” He sighed. “I’m sure whoever this Johnson is, he’s got my blood. He certainly had me long enough to take it. I thought for a while that they might be bluffing, that they did something at the meet to make me think they’d poisoned me when they really didn’t.”

“How do you know that’s not what happened?” Ocelot asked.

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