09/28/2025 Snippet, IRONGHOSTS

Getting there!

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“Yeah. We’d need a good broker,” Nat said, “but you can hire those, if you’re willing to cut them in for a piece of the action.” He looked around. “Mind you, we’ll need to live through the morning first. Where should we be, Mu?”

“The main repair bay in the center. They let me enter enough times to keep my own parts in order, but they have, ah, guards warding that room. If I stay too long, they will know. One or the other will eventually come, but I do not know how long that will be. They deliberately do not keep a set schedule for their response.”

“Hrm. What would happen if you broke some of the tools in there?” asked Oxman.

“I tried that, once. They came most quickly, then. That was when I lost my legs.” Mu bobbed slightly, in the air. “I had to crawl for years, before I learned the trick of making my ghost limbs strong enough to bear my weight.”

“Some jobs you enjoy,” muttered Oxman after a moment of appalled silence. “Still, there’s our answer. No need for a fancy plan. We just set ourselves, go in, and smash. Good loot, or not.”

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