Her plan had been perfectly simple:

- Build a distracting element

- Wait for Repo-Man to show up

- Hit him with the shovel

The only thing she hadn't taken into account was her "medicine reminder"-alarm going off the second the Legal Assassin entered the room. He had disarmed her before she been able to even raise the shovel and then simply pressed a certain muscle on her neck - and her body had gone limp, darkness engulfing her mind...

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Nathan quickly checked Shilo's pulse before he threw her over his shoulder and carried her back outside. Returning home was out of the question - not with all of Rotti's men having orders eliminate him and the cameras everywhere! Well... Almost everywhere... Fortunately he had just discovered the perfect hideout a few days ago: One of his targets - a Zydrate-addict - had been extremely hard to hunt down and it was only after the man had left his secret bunker showing symptoms of withdrawal that the organs could be repossessed. The location was connected to the sewer system and a few tunnels that were no longer used - the ideal place to disappear into...

Her heard footsteps approaching him and carefully sat the unconscious girl against the nearest wall, his eyes never leaving the corner behind which the Geneco security men were waiting. Without making any sound he flung a rope around one of the street signs above him and climbed up.

Their surprise and shock was still visible on their lifeless faces when he wiped his knives clean on his coat and put them back into his boots. Shilo was still passed out when he picked her up once more. He was about to run over the crossing and disappear into one of the dark side streets when he noticed the huge screen live-broadcasting the picture of...

"Mag..."

Blind Mag. The Voice of Geneco. Shilo's godmother and idol. The only job he had ever refused. Marni's best friend.

He felt his breath quicken.

Dead.

"They will pay for this... All of them..."

Slowly he put Shilo down, pressed a kiss against her forehead and looked once more at the screen.

Then the monster took over.