The Found Arcana - Tenth Interlude - Seattle [IC] Options

[Tecumseh]

<<Friday Evening - 18:10 - March 31, 2079 - Bellevue, Seattle Metroplex>>

You've been back in Seattle for a little over a week from your Texas adventure. The house in Bellevue was intact when you returned and things have been fine, although with the coming of spring the Homeowners Association has sent out a reminder about yard and lawncare expectations.

Upon returning from the CAS, Mato took his payday and headed in for some gene therapy. Tamarind had been through it before to get her Synch and let him know what to expect, namely being immobilized and floating in a nutrient vat for the duration. Mato will be sedated and incommunicado for at least two weeks.

It is now Friday evening and the corpers are returning home to start their weekends. It's the first dry day in a while so some of them are grilling - clacking together their tongs as they flip expensive meat on shining, stainless steel grills - while others get to work on some of the HOA-mandated gardening.

Against this backdrop there's a low guttural noise, a growling motorcycle engine that pulls right up to the sidewalk in front of the house. Two kids step off the back of a Yamaha Growler which is covered in dust and dirt. As you get a better look at them, one is a teenager and the other is a tween. The teenager is wearing Halloweener colors and looks around with a sneer.

"We need to see the ork," the teenager says with a fair bit of attitude. "The street sam who wears the business suit."

"Tell him it's Rat and Tom," the tween adds, with rather less attitude than the teenager.

A quick glance around tells you that your neighbors are paying close attention, peeking out of curtains and watching over fences. In all odds, at least one of them is reaching out to Sakura Security.