Shadow Image

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Katz eyed the shadows of the dark cargobay, slipping back between the large steel shipping containers.

"If you were redacted, Benny, we wouldn't be having this conversation," he glanced up above him, making a note of the catwalk structures above. He should have brought a Coalition Seeker Sniper rifle, but then he hadn't expected to be playing hide and go seek.

"You knew your maneuvering would eventually come to the attention of the Commissariat. You hid your ship away during Yuveraj Khan's assualt, then when the Volkhan rose, you took your ship off to the Tau systems. Crewed by men hand picked by yourself... you think that His Watchful Eye wasn't aware of your plans?"

Katz shook his head, "you ask why, when you painted yourself into this corner, Benny. Just take what you did after the fact as evidence of the kind of man you were becoming... tell me," he swept around a corner gun up, sweeping the shadows. "How do you like being nestled into the cold Bosom of the Benitez clan?"

He was uneasy, and that unease was growing.

Touching his TAC-link twice, he gave the signal to the Social Credit that there was trouble.

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