Spook lost herself gazing into the endless expanse of sea and sky, a world without walls or a ceiling or a grid of neon lights. She found her thoughts going back to her parents, something that almost never happened since she'd abandoned her old life. For the first time she wondered if they'd really been slaving away their lives to escape falling under the ground; maybe... maybe they'd been trying to crawl up the impossibly tall buildings, to climb into a position where they could see the sun. She continued to look over her shoulder as Cat turned back toward Pangu, holding onto the vision while the walls rose higher and higher around her, enclosing her once more with that familiar, omnipresent sense of oppression which anyone in the Dreg worth their shit was always fighting against in one way or another.<br/><br/>She shook her head and swallowed to clear her ears, focusing again on the road ahead of them. Whatever the deal had been with her parents, they'd only managed to lock themselves into slavery for the corporations, she'd been smart to get out when she did. And there was no going back to that life now, no way she'd want to. Here she was, riding into the unknown with the Typhoon Mary gang. This was life, this was what it meant to be free, grabbing life by the horns and hanging on for your life, just like she was hanging onto Cat with her arms and the bike with her thighs.<br/><br/>Spook didn't have a clue where they were headed for or why, but it was becoming clear that their business wasn't going down in the Dreg, and that meant a couple things. Thing number one, hitting a rival gang was less likely now, there weren't many turf wars in Pangu proper where land was bought with creds instead of blood. That was backed up by thing number two, any real trouble started at this level of the city was going to be responded to by PMCs.<br/><br/>It shouldn't have come as a surprise that she'd bit off a lot, tagging along with Typhoon Mary. But hell, maybe she'd be able to chew it anyway.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>