"Take it?  Take what?  This isn't a job, this is bait."  Butcher shook his head.  "We aren't being hired, we're being goaded.  You show up to take a job that just happens to be rescuing your sister from slavers?  You're being played.  I'm not hearing any offer of employment, I'm seeing somebody trying to get you to react in exactly this way.  You run off half cocked and unprepared, you'll walk into a bullet or a knife.  somebody has your number and they're looking to inflict a little pain.  Use your head.  Who have you pissed off enough that they'd grab your sister and throw it in your face like this?"<br/><br/>Butcher spun the tablet around, looking to see if there were differences in the rooms.  Were the girls all being held together in separate rooms or were they being held in separate locations? There had to be some clue in the video.  "You know a netrunner that owes you favour?  Maybe we find out where this feed is coming from and go get them back.<em>ALL</em>of them.  If I do this and I do say<em> if</em>, I'm going in to get them all.  So, are you hiring me to do this with you or is there somebody else who seems to think this is the way you hire a crew?"  He looked around the bar, to see if someone was going to approach them.<br/><br/>It didn't make sense that somebody would set up a meet like this just to bait Damien, unless there was some serious bad blood.  He'd clearly made an enemy and that was never good so early in a career in the shadows.  It meant problems for you and those around you and currently that meant trouble for Butcher.  The other possibility was that their employer was somebody else who had lost a sibling/child/lover and that meant the inclusion of Damien's sister Ivy was a coincidence.<br/><br/>Butcher hated coincidences.<br/><br/>"Barkeep!  You seen anybody poking around under this table before we get here?  You have maybe security video we could look at?"  He nodded to Damien.  "He'll slip you fifty to ignore everybody's right to privacy."  He was half expecting the Joygirl to saunter over and identify herself as their employer.  He scanned the tablet again, looking to see if she too bore any resemblance to the prisoners.  For that matter, he looked to see if any of the girls was wearing Aldecado pack colours.  That would be another coincidence for Butcher to hate.<br/><br/>Unless they were waiting outside with a fistful of cash and the Joygirl was watching to see Damien get all bent out of shape and report same to her employer.  Even the reverse was possible and the Nomads were setting up outside to gun them down.<br/><br/>When there are people out to get you, paranoia was a life-skill.