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Julia rolls her virtual eyes, sighing and mentally typing out a response in half of a heartbeat. The lightning-fast life inside the Matrix was unlike anything she'd experienced in the physical world, or even during her brief stints to the Astral. It was incredible. The words ping back to Billy's comm before he even has time to put it back in his pocket. <Got it. I'll try to route their communications through a bunch of sub-advisories and managers. Should delay any response.>
Julia glanced up, watching a body soar past and into the air. She raised an eyebrow, amused. The little one landed on the building across the way with panache, rolling to a crouch along the wall of the Leibenherr Group's ventilation ducts. Setting away her deck, Julia stepped over to the grappling cable she'd brought along in her pack. With one end fastened on her side and the other end being tied down by Chibiko, she'd have a much easier time crossing... Which was handy, since she had no intention of jumping across anything with her baby strapped to her belt. Snapping the connector to her harness, she pulled herself across with ease. She sat down beside Chibiko as the little one wrenched the ventilation shaft open. With a few taps away on her keyboard, she managed to breach the basic security on the building's HVAC controls. A minor victory, but a victory nevertheless. "Fans are off. It's clear. Clear as it's going to get."
A moment passes. "Still on the line," mutters a clearly miffed Julia. "Loading up the party van now. On route to the Leibenherr Group's building. Parking down the block a ways."
Again Julia pondered the proposition in momentary silence. She hated working with Geezer. He was even more unstable than herself. That was saying at lot. And the details were a bit light. Still, she had been looking for a good way to break in her new deck. It had taken her hours of soul-sucking wageslave work to earn the dough for it... might as well make some of it back. "Alright, I'm in," she whispers. "But you'd better make this trip worth it... it's much cheaper to stay here. Safer, too. And borderline legal."
Julia sat in silence for a moment, considering the options. It was unlikely the little one had been compromised, but that didn't mean she was particularly anxious to go back to working with her. They'd have a few sideways runs in their time... The cold metal resting in her eye sockets was a constant reminder of that. At least they came with 20/20 vision, though she'd kept her glasses out of habit. "Alright," she finally whispers into her commlink. "I'll need the details." |
