<b>Spook</b><br/><i>A Short While Later...<br/>
</i><br/>It was an odd feeling, a new limb. Particularly one with an NSR rating above 12,000. It felt real. Like she'd been wearing a thing sleeve over her arm that had been peeled back. To make it more awkward, it was stronger than she was. Her shoulder felt the weight more, the connections and mounts on her bones registered that her right arm was heavier, but to the arm, everything felt lighter. The joints moved with complete fluidity, there was nothing to compensate for, no wear in the actuators and servos. And it felt unbreakable. The carbon alloys, the rigging, the nerve wire strands, all of it was cutting edge.<br/><br/>Everything in her world was grime and struggle. 'It'll do.' 'It'll get the job done.' Those were the limits to people like her. Part of her was no longer constrained by those boundaries.<br/><br/>She sat in the car beside the man in the suit, in her simple white two piece. All that separated her from the world of the lights and shops and security and peace was a pane of glass. But an entire world separated her from those people that lived in it.<br/><br/>"I'm going to give you something, Spook." He told her as she stepped out of the car at the lift.<br/><br/>The heavy sound of machinery filled the air around the large cylinder, the safety gates up around the huge opening. Within, the platform slowly rose.<br/><br/>"In truth, its why took you from those vultures - because you have a power that I don't. You have the power to change things, to upset the balance. But to do that, I have to give you something. I have to give you a piece of my power. I'm going to give you a secret."<br/><br/>Behind her the platform arrived, the heavy sound of locking pins sliding into place made the ground she stood on shake. Behind her was the platform that would take her back into her world, back down into the Dreg. Once she stepped onto that platform the rules changed.<br/><br/>"What you choose to do with that power... well," He smiled at her, knowingly, "Really, only you have the power to decide."<br/><br/>The gate rose with a clatter.<br/><br/>He yelled over the noise, "There was a theft, an attempt at one at least. APTS Cybergenics lost something very valuable. I wish I could tell you what it was, but the simple reality is that I don't know. But they want it back, Spook - but they're being very careful to not let anyone know how badly. They aren't sure where it is, but I have it on good authority that its down there somewhere, down there in your world where my illusion of power has no meaning. Only yours does!"<br/><br/>He stood there, hands in his pockets, the gleam of his car behind him where the blonde driver stood, waiting.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>