A simple quest for freedom

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Virginia needed answers. Her Bob 'Fixer' Myles was not only responsible for sourcing her Drug, but also promised her to look into the case of her older brother, and thanks to her little escapade at Barrier Station with Outcast freighter and its pilot - she had few more weeks to spend looking into her personal matters.

Planet Houston looked like the political and moral wasteland she remembered from her childhood and teenage years. One prisoner for every three free citizens. Hundreds of millions living in dystopian misery. A product of deep corruption within Liberty society - but luckily for her - that corruption could work in her favor if she was willing to spend some credits in right pockets, which allowed even individuals like her to enter the planetside without too much trouble.

Her journey via Zoner transport from Bethlehem Station was uneventful, although she was pretty sure that she was not the only 'criminal' aboard the vessel. Few cold-blooded faces onboard could have been former or current Rogues or Xenos.
Landing and journey on the planetside was similarly uneventful as Zoner captain had more than solid contacts so her 'cargo' could leave or enter ship without too many questions asked.

Virginia was wearing her more casual clothing suited instead of Insurgency military uniform. She was wearing gray hoodie with checkered red and black shirt underneath with worn out jeans and knee-high boots. Her small civilian handgun was in her left hoodie pocket just to be sure. With her hood covering her striking blonde hair, she was blending well among the Houston's poorer population, not wanting to draw any attention due to the numerous Bounty Hunter and LPI presence on the surface.

When she arrived at Fixer's address, it was already night time. His planetside base of operations was in more rundown parts of the settlement with barely functioning infrastructure and services, and trash everywhere.
Virginia carefully opened main entrance door into one of the apartment buildings and navigated its dimly lit halls until she finally reached Fixer's apartment and found it taped over by LPI tapes.
"Oh great.", she sighed and looked over the surrounding halls, carefully listening if she was followed by anyone or not. She even checked peepholes of nearby apartments for any signs of being observed, but she have not found anything.
She checked apartment's door, but they appeared locked and sealed. She did a little more noise than she wanted as she tried to open them and heard shuffling noise from one of those nearby apartment doors and had very bad feeling about all of this. I need to get out of here fast, raced through her mind.

She began walking away from the apartment as quietly as she could and as she was leaving apartment block through backdoor, she noticed LPI blinking lights approaching in the distance.
"Sh*t.", Virginia cursed and began running away from the scene through narrow and dark streets, checking her back every turn. She navigated her way through the dark halls and hid herself behind heaps of trash in one of abandoned buildings and calmed her breathing as much as she could, gripping her light pistol in her left hand.
Two pairs of heavy boots were stomping on the floor above her. She could even see flashlight beams through the cracks in the floor. Virginia held her breath and remained still, not making any noise and paying attention to her surrounding. Policeman above her looked around, answered to buzzling voices in his walkie-talkie and walked away.

Virginia sighed in relief and stood up on her feet, dusting herself off of any trash. In the near darkness, she has noticed movement and immediately aimed her gun at it and followed it to another empty room in abandoned building. Two small beings cuddled to each other in the darkness and Virginia lowered her gun - it was just two street kids. She secured her firearm with flip of safety lever and put it back into her hoodie pocket as she squatted down to have a better look at them, "What are you two doing in place like this?", whispered as softly as she could.