Shadowrun- The Complete Frame Job by John Helfers

Author:John Helfers [Helfers, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Time melted away in warmth and camaraderie. Frostburn slowly made the rounds of her party, reconnecting with relatives she hadn’t seen in ages, and tried to take her mind off the team’s troubles, even if only for a bit. Even if the dark thoughts spilled back into her conscious thoughts every few minutes.

No one questioned her vague answers when she answered their “So, what are you doing these days?” questions. No one demanded anything more specific, which, if she were being completely honest, is one of the big reasons she’d stayed away from these kinds of gatherings in the past. She was sure her family would get everything out of her. Someone was going to throw a fit and get dramatic―but none of that happened. It was a damn miracle.

Rounds completed, she retired inside. Maybe with everyone chatting, eating, and drinking out there, she could slip away to get a little work done. She poked around, snooping in the rooms of her aunt’s house, feeling a little like a trespasser, even though she went through the better part of adolescence living under this roof.

Emilia had gotten Frostburn’s old room when they moved in. The room could have still been hers, for how similar their tastes were. Punk rockers head banged from their AR posters draped askew over every wall surface. She sat on the bed and stared dryly at the moving posters, briefly flipping off Johnny Banger, who riffed in a never-ending loop. It was more of a salute to the legend than an insult, and she thought he would have appreciated the gesture.

But she couldn’t work here, not with the ick of her interaction with Emilia earlier still lingering in her mind. She went into the master bathroom instead, locked the door, and lay down in the bathtub.

She closed her eyes and tried to settle her thoughts. Inhaling deeply, she visualized sloughing away the house, the family, and the physical plane altogether in an attempt to head into astral projection. She needed to find out more about the person who had hired Yu, and she had a decent idea of where to start—

A three-round burst erupted outside.

Frostburn leaped out of the tub and nearly tore the door off its hinges in her rush to get out of the room. Once outside, she spotted the source of the gunfire. Emilia stood in the middle of the front yard, pointing a pistol in the air, her eyes bright and a wild grin on her face at the crowd of children gathered around her.

Blood boiling, Frostburn ran to and disarmed her cousin within seconds, sped along by old muscle memory. She grabbed Emilia by the shoulders. “What the hell is wrong with you?” A wall of fumes hit her square in the face, and she recoiled. Her jaw dropped open and she worked her mouth without words for a moment before she spat out, “Are you drunk?”

Emilia scowled and swung a fist at the empty air between them, far too late to catch Frostburn in the face.

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