XFausto: You're actually sleepin' under a bridge?
Ian: Not any more. It was hit --
Fausto: By the random bad driver who used you as target practice. Right. What happened to crashin' in that junkie squat?
Ian: It burned down a week ago. I must say no one seemed surprised.
Fausto: ... anything else happen that you didn't reckon was worth mentioning?
Ian: Not as such. I tried to find a place, but people are... reluctant to take me. On the bright side, when the implant inevitably drive me mad and I go on my crazed killing spree, I won't need to trash my room first.
Fausto: Surely you got a friend... with a... couch...
Ian: No.
Fausto: Course, if you ask around a bit you could probably find someone with better'n a couch in the front room. A spare room. A bed, even.
Ian: The couch would be more than enough, but I fear it is the friends I am short on. No, no. I will simply find another bridge. One hardly notices the noise and smell after a while, and they say this winter will be mild. I doubt my arm will freeze to the ground more than once or twice more....
Fausto: You are either very oblivious or very cunning, and I'm damned if I can tell which.
Ian: Not any more. It was hit --
Fausto: By the random bad driver who used you as target practice. Right. What happened to crashin' in that junkie squat?
Ian: It burned down a week ago. I must say no one seemed surprised.
Fausto: ... anything else happen that you didn't reckon was worth mentioning?
Ian: Not as such. I tried to find a place, but people are... reluctant to take me. On the bright side, when the implant inevitably drive me mad and I go on my crazed killing spree, I won't need to trash my room first.
Fausto: Surely you got a friend... with a... couch...
Ian: No.
Fausto: Course, if you ask around a bit you could probably find someone with better'n a couch in the front room. A spare room. A bed, even.
Ian: The couch would be more than enough, but I fear it is the friends I am short on. No, no. I will simply find another bridge. One hardly notices the noise and smell after a while, and they say this winter will be mild. I doubt my arm will freeze to the ground more than once or twice more....
Fausto: You are either very oblivious or very cunning, and I'm damned if I can tell which.
When last we saw.... Ian - Fausto
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The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter by Rod Duncan
The year is 2007. Elizabeth Barnabas keeps house for her private detective brother: a respectable woman even in the staid Anglo-Scottish Republic. Except Elizabeth doesn't have a brother....
The year is 2007. Elizabeth Barnabas keeps house for her private detective brother: a respectable woman even in the staid Anglo-Scottish Republic. Except Elizabeth doesn't have a brother....