Incognito: Chapter III (//invited only)

[Char Aznable]

Sector 8, Harburg City, Planet Hamburg
02/10/822 AS, 04:37 AM

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Breathing Hamburg's Atmosphere felt like one's lungs got filled with tiny, sharp needles. The cold was everywhere. On the skin, inside the lungs, right down to the bones. And even at this time, the towers of Harburg didn't sleep. Always awake, always functioning. Nika closed her eyes for a moment and inhaled another time, gathering strength for her new task, and then stepped out on the catwalk, delving into the crowd of people, becoming one with the masses. She became a cog in a machine that would never stop, but one without isolation. One that would rust and stop. One that needed to be replaced.

The discussion with Lia had taken hours, and it had assured her that this mission would probably be the most difficult she had to face so far. Not only was her plan ridiculous, but she also needed to keep her curious friend in the dark - to not risk endangering her, mainly. The certainty to have someone to come home to, however, was something that she had missed for too long now.
Her face grew darker as the thoughts in her head clouded themselves even further. Pulling her cape deeper to shadow most of her face, the slender woman went to the next garage and opened Amelia's hovercraft. Judging by its exterior, she almost hoped to have discovered a new, non-chaotic side of her friend, only to be disappointed as the door swung open. A mountain of paper, datapads, portfolios, and even a flute greeted her, and had she not closed the door, everything would have been blown in her face. Shaking her head, she climbed over it and started the vehicle.

While the autonav did its best to not fall out of line, Nika thought about the contact she had received. She didn't know who had been behind that neural net address she had found in one of the Bundschuh's stashs - a small chest in an abandoned phone booth - but it was her first lead for a network of contacts. And she needed one. Desperately.

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