\+/ Tales From Night City \+/ Chapter 30 - Like Flies To A Light
You hear the flick of a lighter as the small flame creates a dim orange glow in the car briefly. The low rumbling of the engine creates a mellow white noise... the pair are seen sharing silence as Night City reels them back in via the car. Night City has the ability to do depraved things to your soul..take what's most precious from you.. or even give you something you never knew you needed. For some, regardless of what this city does to them.. it pulls them back in...calls to them..a feeling indescribable to those on the outside.
"Where is this rat." Brian says breaking the silence.
"He used to be sitting pretty in a suite in the city center. He got chased out to Heywood..last we know."
"Last we know huh.."
"What? Expecting exact coords..?"
"You really are just a loose cannon aren't you?" Brian says glancing over at her
Zaunya smiles with one hand on the wheel and the other holding her cig. "You love it."
Brian scoffs with a smirk as he turns his attention back out of the window.. gazing out into the Night City glow off in the distance. He shifts subject.
"I think you underestimate the value of a plan."
"oh, do i?" she says mockingly while raising her eyebrows.
"You've got a justified vendetta, a cut-throat megacorp breathin' down your neck and now you've got a rat to hunt n' track...This isn't the time to just be winging it."
"uhhmm.. you mean WE? You can try and distance yourself from this shit as much as you'd like but we're in it now. I don't-"
"Which means we'll be doing this my way."
Zaunya looks over at Brian with a now serious look. He continues.
"We're gonna need a central point of control. A base of operations of sorts... First move is once again ours.. thankfully. We'll be sure to make it the right way this time." Brian takes a drag of his smoke before continuing.
"There's multiple factors at play here. With every move we make.. we leave trails. Trails that if picked up by the wrong people spells disaster for us. Think of it like quicksand that we're already in.. the more aggressive the action, the quicker we're consumed."
Zaunya looks over at Brian while staying silent.. listening to him analyze their situation and dissecting various elements of past events they've been through...how they coincide, and what needs to be kept in mind as they move. This is the first time shes seeing him do what he does best. The thoroughness of his thinking catches her off guard and intimidates her slightly. She concludes with a silent thought: I'm glad he's on my side.
"I know a place... Its out of sight... Should be ok to lay low there and think next steps." She says chiming in.
Brian smirks. "Funny.. we could've just stayed put a while longer." He says gesturing back toward the direction of the motel. "Yet here we are.. driving head first into a neon web of chaos...like flies to a light.."
Zaunya smiles and looks over at him. Responding calmly. "Right... but this our home..." she says gesturing toward the city.
"Isn't it Brian." she asks in a tone of awe.
Brian says nothing as his gaze stays fixed on the towering glow of Night City. You see the reflection of the neon cityscape enter his eyes as they speed directly towards it.
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