Fate chewed on the end of a stylus as he studied the three monitors to his right. Still no Sass, though he'd word that his friend yet lived. A miracle, given her proclivities for falling into the seventh circle of bounty hunter hell no matter what planet she wound up on. He felt a disconnect; strange not to be watching her back. For now, she was in someone else's hands. Capable ones. He didn't trust often, but the stakes were right. He'd done what he could for that high profile job and any missteps from the launch were his. It was annoying though, to have had to dump his servers. Painful, to move his ass to a new den of iniquity. Er. Technology. Den of. That. There'd be little room for iniquity since he'd reconfigged his favorite sexbot vids to fuck with the corporations in his stead. And since he had to wait for that drek to settle, there were no missions to toss to his contacts. So he couldn't worry, couldn't play, couldn't work.
"Welp. This is boring as fuck," Fate mumbled around the piece of copper-colored metal. "Oh. Oh! Hello, green girl." Somewhere, he'd picked up a feed of the high-wire balance act he'd enjoyed the night before. Toggling a button, he split the monitors to zoom in. Security risk. Flight risk. Danger risk. (Sass would accuse him of having a type.) Flexible as hell, though. And although he usually liked his, um. Flexible dancing. INSIDE the showcages...on-screen, anyway, since Fate had never seen one in person...he couldn't deny he'd enjoyed the fuck out of watching her bounce around on top of them while more of Radius got bashed up by proxy.
Tiny women and their capacity to draw lasers.
Maybe he did have a type.
He grimaced. The monitors weren't even, which made the pipe she walked on look like a series of steps. Fate tapped a few keys, the beastly tattoo of a great earth-cat across his right hand seeming to glide across his flesh like the hunter it portrayed. The stylus dipped with his frown. When he leaned close, the uneven cut of his burnt orange hair rocked forward over one shoulder and the opposite ear. He'd found another angle. A short distance down and across from the route she took. Not a standard connection. Had a bit of a wobble to it.
Drone.
Illegal. Check. High-end. Check. Armed? He slammed code through the transmission and felt a cold chill. Well armed. Check. Tagged by a bounty hunter. That was like, a default check.
The target could be anybody.
Hazel eyes jerked to the left, where he threw the small green woman's image up on the bigger, far monitor. He could backtrace the drone, find its target to be sure, but based on the station activity and boards he'd been monitoring where Sass dropped out of his orbit, it was a given that even if it didn't have a specific target in mind it would recognize her as a contender for some spending money. Then it would tattle.
...he could backtrace, sure. He could also blind the thing, change its target list, blow it up, and otherwise make it addled until she was out of range.
Fate did none of that.
Instead, he dropped the stylus to his oversized desk and sent a volley of signals toward her. What kind of tech did a tiny green woman have laying about? They were all about to light up, and it would be noisy, and much, much more entertaining than simply nudging things out of the way.
< RUN class convo-console.PRIVATE >
>>Hey toots.
>>Riddle for you:
>>What's small & light & likes to pick fights?
>>It's about to be looking at you & it's not a mirror.
He waited a moment, watching the screen with a massive grin as the messages hit around her.
>>When you get to the alley
>>drop that sexy ass of yours down about
He eyeballed the screen directly ahead.
>>3 feet.
>>& go straight.
Fate laced his fingers and flipped his hands around to pop his knuckles. There. Playdates were never boring.
"Welp. This is boring as fuck," Fate mumbled around the piece of copper-colored metal. "Oh. Oh! Hello, green girl." Somewhere, he'd picked up a feed of the high-wire balance act he'd enjoyed the night before. Toggling a button, he split the monitors to zoom in. Security risk. Flight risk. Danger risk. (Sass would accuse him of having a type.) Flexible as hell, though. And although he usually liked his, um. Flexible dancing. INSIDE the showcages...on-screen, anyway, since Fate had never seen one in person...he couldn't deny he'd enjoyed the fuck out of watching her bounce around on top of them while more of Radius got bashed up by proxy.
Tiny women and their capacity to draw lasers.
Maybe he did have a type.
He grimaced. The monitors weren't even, which made the pipe she walked on look like a series of steps. Fate tapped a few keys, the beastly tattoo of a great earth-cat across his right hand seeming to glide across his flesh like the hunter it portrayed. The stylus dipped with his frown. When he leaned close, the uneven cut of his burnt orange hair rocked forward over one shoulder and the opposite ear. He'd found another angle. A short distance down and across from the route she took. Not a standard connection. Had a bit of a wobble to it.
Drone.
Illegal. Check. High-end. Check. Armed? He slammed code through the transmission and felt a cold chill. Well armed. Check. Tagged by a bounty hunter. That was like, a default check.
The target could be anybody.
Hazel eyes jerked to the left, where he threw the small green woman's image up on the bigger, far monitor. He could backtrace the drone, find its target to be sure, but based on the station activity and boards he'd been monitoring where Sass dropped out of his orbit, it was a given that even if it didn't have a specific target in mind it would recognize her as a contender for some spending money. Then it would tattle.
...he could backtrace, sure. He could also blind the thing, change its target list, blow it up, and otherwise make it addled until she was out of range.
Fate did none of that.
Instead, he dropped the stylus to his oversized desk and sent a volley of signals toward her. What kind of tech did a tiny green woman have laying about? They were all about to light up, and it would be noisy, and much, much more entertaining than simply nudging things out of the way.
< RUN class convo-console.PRIVATE >
>>Hey toots.
>>Riddle for you:
>>What's small & light & likes to pick fights?
>>It's about to be looking at you & it's not a mirror.
He waited a moment, watching the screen with a massive grin as the messages hit around her.
>>When you get to the alley
>>drop that sexy ass of yours down about
He eyeballed the screen directly ahead.
>>3 feet.
>>& go straight.
Fate laced his fingers and flipped his hands around to pop his knuckles. There. Playdates were never boring.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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