Pitstop on Pittsburgh

[Reeves]

With the lower half of his face entirely obscured by the helmet's frame and filters, it wasn't clear if he smiled at her statement or not, but the wrinkling at the corners of his eyes betrayed him there. While getting away from the immediate vicinity of the spaceport, he would keep the throttle light, not wanting to commit to speed just yet. "Relax, I didn't call you here with any motivations. You were on my mind earlier in the day, felt like inviting you over. Besides, I can't keep the bike locked up forever, would be a waste of a great machine and an experience."

When he wasn't strapped into the hot seat of a fighter, his tone took on a more grounded and even simple set of characteristics. But all that gave rise to was doubts of which version was the real him. Was Cobra, despite all the theatrics, an accurate depiction of who he really was? Or was it the man currently trying to enjoy some downtime on an expensive bike and good company? In either case, once he was clear of the spaceport he gunned the engine. The afterglow it gave off slowly becoming their sole source of light besides the lamps attached to the front of the bike, the sun gradually continuing to set and the spaceport being left far behind. They were rapidly approaching what seemed like an endless chain of furnaces and haphazard rails that crisscrossed between the behemoth factories and what must have been rudimentary residences for the workers. "Up ahead, where you see all the fire. Place never shuts down, they constantly rotate shifts. So every hour of every day, those fires never fade. Sometimes during a bad storm, the light they give off is the only way you know what direction you're headed." From observation, Olivia would be able to tell that infrastructure here was centered around deposits of resources where mining could be done, stretches of land where nothing of value lay beneath the dirt were practically untouched or used to build hives for the overwhelming population.

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