Posted March 30, 2023, 8 p.m. by Civilian Thyr Th'arialat (Resident) (Lucas Foxley)
Posted by Civilian Jezem (Upstanding Citizen) in Forging the Future
Posted by Civilian Thyr Th’arialat (Resident) in Forging the Future
Posted by Civilian Jezem (Upstanding Citizen) in Forging the Future
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Shivan threw open the door to the house, moved towards the living room, and plopped himself down on the couch, one hand gently holding his injury. “Jezem! You’re not going to believe who I ran into today.” He called through the house. “You up for a shopping trip?”~ Thyr
In the courtyard, Jezem suddenly sat upright, his feet and calves soaking in the wading pool. Shivan ran into someone? And they didn’t try to stab, kidnap or extort him? Something wasn’t right here. Jezem pulled himself upright and waded through the shallow pool to the other side where his towel laid on table. “I’m in the courtyard!” Jezem called back, quickly wiping down his legs with the large fluffy towel.
Jezem
Argh. Now he had to get up again. Shivan stood and headed out to the courtyard. “You remember Eryn, don’t you?” Under his right arm was a PaDD. “She’s not going to turn me in. Luckily. Actually, she had a proposal for me.”
~ Thyr
Eryn? Jezem paused mid-motion, his right foot lost in the volume of the towel. Eryn Romanov, now that was a name he hadn’t heard in a long while. She was the kind of woman one never forget, even after all these years. Jezem finished wiping his foot dry and threw the damp towel over the back of a chair. “Don’t tell me,” He said, his tone laced with aggravation, “You blindly agreed to whatever proposal she dangled in front of your face because she said she won’t turn you in?” Extortion. Why couldn’t Shivan just have gotten stabbed again?
Jezem
“Not blindly,” replied Shivan, offended. “She offered to pay off my debts, the non Syndicate ones, and protection from the Syndicate. In exchange for a job, with a steady pay.” He shrugged, “There’s a little catch, but I didn’t really think you’d mind the catch.”
~ Thyr
Jezem blinked. Didn’t mind? Didn’t mind?!? A golden opportunity too good to be true dropped into the man’s lap and he didn’t give her a ‘let me think about it and get back to you?’ Though knowing the Romanovs they could certainly take care of Shivan’s non-Syndicate debt but why would they? Eryn had no stake in any of this. She knew what the Syndicate was capable of. Even children knew to be wary of deals like this. Through gritted teeth he said, “And this catch is?”
Jezem
“I have to report on any suspicious behavior or deals… Basically, protection in exchange for snitching.” He spat the word snitching. “But if I do this we have less enemies to worry about. And if the Syndicate is off my back for a while we have time to figure out how to get me out of this.” He shrugged, “I’m a lot less scared of Eryn than I am the Syndicate.”
~ Thyr
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