James "Huggie" McKenna (cause hes soo feeeeely)

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The hooptie was moored to Rochester idly handling passing pieces of scrap. Incinerating useless pieces in favor for good material. Jim was handling an inactive artifact ha had come across in Dublin. Apparently it had been his great grandmothers.

Annie was what everyone called her. She was a woman of some controversy as family history went. William the great had died and the family had hit some major trouble and moved to Leeds of all the places to pick. New London just wasn't safe.

The trinket was given to him by his uncle Monty. A gold miner who had lost several sons to the mollies, not killed but, they joined up as soon as they saw what the BMM did to IMG's miners from time to time.

Jim had grown up in Liberty specifically because his own parents were vary hard working but desired an environment that weren't so horribly charged.

The family split off around 750 before he was born. Gaians Mollies Outcasts and Corsairs were too much for some members of the family.

Most still lived in leeds and Dublin, Uncle and cousins there. Jim was in school when his father was widowed in the 800-801 "troubles". Jim sr met a zoner and they had another family. But he always remembered that Great Grandma Annie was a zoner.

Why she would hold onto an artifact like this when they were highly prized and dangerous to be caught with no matter where you are piqued his interest when Monty offloaded it to him.

Some strange about how Monty said "Your baby face is getting wrinkles and if I get another cast steel body part some of the boys around here will mistake me for a loader bot, so your old enough to hold onto it."

That and he had to change his name from Smith back to Mckenna...

James put his radio to local loop and recorded a log.

"I have annies paperweight now. I used to stare at it when I was little. Grandma was livid when id steal it from the attic. So much old stuff of up there. I blame the fact there was so much historical junk up there on me being a junker now."

he rubbed his nose and fumbled with the artifact.

"Its small, has what looks like gold plate on the outside, and in French is says Remember on it. probably wont be a vary popular thing now , French that is."

Jim held the artifact with both hands in his lap looking outside thinking about his grandmother and what she said about her own mother.

"Gramma Sara would say... Jamie, your great grandma was a stubborn beautiful woman. I never saw her smile without holding her stone so leave it alone!"

He smiled

"That worked for about a week. The only images I saw of her was when she was vary old but she was long gone before I started talking."

He remembered that even Sara smiled rarely. Laughed alot sure. but smiling, no. her own family was cut down in space over a period of time. All she had left when she passed was his dad Monty. and uncle Javis. Who really wasn't related but apparently were family friends... who rarely visited on account of being zoners.

"Im almost 59 years old and I haven't a good grasp on where im going. I think its because I want to know more about where I came from. And-"

There was a hum coming from his lap, the artifact was glowing, rather then toss it he was intrigued it was a little too late when the terror crept in. Everyone else who had managed to activate an artifact turned into mutated monstrous freaks or mentally screwed up.. but he was half way realizing thing as he slipped into what looked like a coma.

The log recorder recorded 2 minutes of silence.. and stopped.